National Center for Historical Memory


’s National Centre for Historical Memory is a national and public entity attached to the Administrative Department for Social Prosperity.

History

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.

Organization

To fulfill its mandates and strategic objectives, the NCHM is divided into four large areas:
One 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:

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