Colombia’s National Centre for Historical Memory (NCHM) is a national and public entity attached to the Administrative Department for Social Prosperity (DSP).
The NCHM was created by the Law 1448/2011, also called the Law of Victims and Land Restitution. The NCHM is in charge of contributing to the State´s duty of memory regarding the violations committed during the Colombian armed conflict. Also, it helps on the comprehensive reparation and the right to the truth to which the victims and the entire society are entitled.
The Centre produces public information available for everyone interested, through museum and educational activities that enrich the knowledge of the social and political history of Colombia.
In the year 2021, the NCHM will inaugurate the Colombia’s National Museum of Memory, a platform for the dialogue and articulation of plural memories of the armed conflict that guarantees the inclusion of different actors and populations and contributes to the comprehensive reparation, historical clarification, guaranties of non-repetition and the construction of a sustainable peace.
To fulfill its mandates and strategic objectives, the NCHM is divided into four large areas:
Construction of Historical Memory DirectorateNational Museum of Memory DirectorateHuman Rights Archive DirectorateTruth Agreements DirectorateOne of its main objectives is the contribution to the clarification of the facts, the culprits and the conditions that made the armed conflict possible, as well as the institutional, political and social dynamics that unleashed and degraded the conflict.
Also, the NCHM works to:
Consolidate the role of memory as a right and public patrimony.Dignify the victims and clarify the violent acts committed during the armed conflict.Plan, construct and deliver to the country the National Museum of Memory as a place that dignifies the victims and promotes a culture respectful of human rights.Trujillo: A tragedy that Never CeasesEl Salado: That War was not OursMemories in WartimeToolbox: Recall and Narrate the ConflictBojayá: War Without LimitsLa Rochela: Memoirs of a Crime Against JusticeThe Bahía Portete Massacre: Wayuu Women in the SpotlightThe Disputed LandMemories of Dispossession and Peasant Resistance in the Caribbean Coast (1960 - 2010)Women and War: Victims and Resistance in the Colombian CaribbeanWomen Who Make History: Earth, Body and Policy in the Colombian CaribbeanSan Carlos: Memories of Exodus in WarThe Invisible Footprint of War: Forced Displacement in the Comuna 13The Unarmed Order. The resistance of the Workers' Association Peasants of CarareTo Silence Democracy. The Massacres of Remedios and Segovia 1982-1997El Tigre Massacre: Reconstruction of Historical Narrative in the Valle del Guaméz - PutumayoEl Placer: Women, Coca and War in the Bajo Putumayo“Our life has been our struggle”. Memory and Resistance in the Indigenous CaucaJustice and Peace: Judicial Truth or Historical Truth?Law of Justice and Peace: The Silences and the Forgetfulness of TruthJustice and Peace: Lands and Territories from the Paramilitary Perspective“Basta Ya!” Colombia: Memories of War and Dignity. This document gives an account of 50 years of armed conflict in Colombia, revealing the enormous magnitude, ferocity and degradation of war and the serious consequences and impact on the civilian population.Guerrilla Forces and Civilian Population. Path of the FARC 1949 - 2013A Kidnapped SocietyAgrarian Policies and Land Reform in Colombia: Sketch of an Institutional MemoryChallenges for Reintegration: Approaches to Gender, Age and EthnicityRemember to Repair. The Massacres of Matal of Flor Amarillo and Corocito in AraucaArchive of grave violations to Human Rights. Elements for Public PolicyMasters and Farmers: Land, Power, Violence in Valle del CaucaPutumayo: The Maelstrom of Rubber PlantationsNotebook of Damages Caused by the ViolenceTruth Agreements Directorate (TAD) ReportsNew Scenarios of Armed Conflict and Violence. Panorama of post-agreements with Paramilitaries of Caribe Region, Department of Antioquia and Department of ChocoNew Scenarios of Armed Conflict and Violence. Panorama of post-agreements with Paramilitaries of Northeast and Middle Magdalena, Eastern Plains, Southeast and BogotaMake War and Kill PoliticsEnforced DisappearanceOverview I contributed to the truthAnnihilate the differenceThe legacy of the absent. Leaders and important people in the history of El SaladoThe word and silenceA journey through the historical memoryDisarmament, demobilization and reintegrationDel ñame espino al calabazoSeries: A displaced nationA displaced nation. National report of the displacement in ColombiaRazed villages. Memories of the displacement in El Castillo (Meta)Licensed to move: Massacres and reconfiguration territorial in Tibú, CatatumboCrossing the border: Memories of the exodus towards Venezuela. The case of the Arauca RiverPrimer: Criminal law and warQuintín Lame: first indigenous guerrilla of Latin AmericaRoads for memoryToolbox for Managers of Human Rights ArchivesBuenaventura: A Port Without CommunityCorporal Texts of Cruelty: Historical Memory and Forensic AnthropologyNarratives of Life and MemoryMemory, Territory and Peasant StrugglesLucho Arango: The Advocate of Artisanal FishingThat Day the Violence Arrived by Canoe…Historical Memory from the Territorial SphereCommunicate During the Conflict, Memoires of Eduardo EstradaCrimes that do not prescribePetroleum, coca, territorial dispossession and social organization in PutumayoPogue: the memory made of songsSocial cleansing. Limpieza social. Una violencia mal nombrada