Abbreviations

ACSU

Asociación Cultural y Social del Uruguay (Social and Cultural Association of Uruguay)

ADACAU

Asociación de Arte y Cultura Afro Uruguaya (Association of Afro-Uruguayan Art and Culture)

AL

Awami League

ANC

African National Congress

BBC

British Broadcasting Corporation

BNP

Bangladesh National Party

CA

Catholic Action

CALAS

Centro de Acción Legal, Ambiental y Social de Guatemala (Centre for Legal, Environmental, and Social Action, Guatemala)

CDR

Coalition pour la Défense de la République (Coalition for the Defense of the Republic)

CEH

Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico (Historical Clarification Commission)

CEO

chief executive officer

CIA

Central Intelligence Agency

CONADEP

Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas (National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons)

DK

Democratic Kampuchea

ECCC

Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia

EGP

Ejército Guerrillero de los Pobres (Guerilla Army of the Poor, Guatemala)

EGP

Ejército Guerrillero del Pueblo (Guerilla Army of the Villages, Argentina)

ERP

People’s Revolutionary Party, Argentina

FAR

Forces armées rwandaises (Armed Forces of Rwanda)

FARG

National Fund for the Neediest Genocide Survivors (Rwanda)

FFM

Fact Finding Mission

GAM

Grupo de Apoyo Muto (Mutual Support Group)

GAMA

El Grupo de Apoyo a la Mujer Afrouruguaya (Support Group to AfroUrugayan Women)

HRC

Human Rights Council

IBUKA

Do Remember (umbrella organization for survivors of the Rwandan genocide)

ICC

International Criminal Court

ICTR

International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

ICTY

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

IICI

Institute for International Criminal Investigations

ILO

International Labour Organization

IMT

International Military Tribunal

IT

Information technology

ITU

International Telecommunications Union

KGB

Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security, security agency of the Soviet Union)

LRA

Lord’s Resistance Army

LSE

London School of Economics

MCA

Movimiento Campesino del Altiplano (Peasant Movement of the Highland)

MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MK

Umkhonto weSizwe (spear of the nation, armed wing of the African National Congress, South Africa)

MRNDD

Mouvement Républicain National pour la Démocratie et le Développement (National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development)

NGO

Nongovernmental Organization

NIOD

Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies (The Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies)

ODHAG

Oficina de Derechos Humanos del Arzobispado de Guatemala (Office of Human Rights of the Archdiocese of Guatemala)

OPCW

Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons

ORPA

Organización del Pueblo en Armas (People’s Organization in Arms)

OSINT

Open Source Intelligence

PAC

Pan African Congress

PSVI

Prevent Sexual Violence Initiative

PTSD

Post-traumatic stress disorder

REMHI

Proyecto de Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica (Recovery of Historical Memory Project)

RIB

Research Initiatives Bangladesh

RIT

Relational Identity Theory

RJOY

Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth

RPA

Rwandan Patriotic Army

RPF

Rwandan Patriotic Front

RT

Russia Today

SCM

Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression

SNCF

Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français (French National Railways)

TRC

Truth and Reconciliation Commission

TUS

Tarjeta Uruguay Social (Uruguay Social Card)

UK

United Kingdom

UN

United Nations

UNHRC

United Nations Human Rights Council

UNSC

United Nations Security Council

UNTAET

United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor

USHMM

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum