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Dr Anita Ferrara and Dr Beatrice Canossi have published a New Edited book, "Transitional Justice Archives: Documenting Human Rights violations in Latin America."  Published by Routledge in 2025

The Book is the result of a collaboration between academics, archivists, and Transitional justice professionals from diverse backgrounds. This book explores and traces the multiple pathways that led to the creation and production of transitional justice archives in selected Latin American countries. By comparing traditional methods used in previous cases with the innovations introduced by digital technologies, it examines how transitional justice mechanisms have gathered and organised evidence. The work also shows that the methods used to produce and create transitional justice archives will significantly affect their future use.

The volume is divided into two parts. The first focuses on case studies from Argentina, Chile, and Peru. Argentina and Chile have played a leading role in the development, management, and accessibility of extensive records documenting human rights abuses that occurred during the dictatorships in both countries. In the second part, academics and professionals of the Integrated System for Peace, Colombia’s most recent transitional justice framework, discuss current challenges and developments in building the archives of the ongoing transitional justice process.

This book will be of significant interest to researchers and academics of transitional justice and human rights, as well as archivists and historians specialising in human rights.