Author: International Working Group / Translation thanks to swisspeace
Resource Summary
Why we have selected it?
One year ago, we highlighted this resource given the geopolitical situation in Europe. At that moment, the Guiding Principles for Safe Havens for Archives at Risk was only available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic. However, thanks to the project led by swisspeace and funded by the Programme Commission (PCOM) in 2022 (Dissemination of the Safe Havens for Archives at Risk Initiative in the post-Soviet region (Russian and Ukrainian speaking contexts)), we are now able to share this resource translated into Ukrainian and Russian.
These new translations are part of the actions inspired by the «Safe Havens for Archives at Risk Initiative», which seeks to promote safe haven arrangements that comply with good practice standards defined by the Guiding Principles. This initiative was established in 2016 by a group of international organisations (including ICA), governmental institutions, national archives, as well as by a group of civil society organisations working on conflict-affected areas and with the need of protecting their archives at risk of destruction.
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For swisspeace, one of the main objectives of the funded PCOM project was “(…) to support civil society organizations and other actors on the ground that may need guidance and advice to safely preserve their archives in a safe haven, possibly, in a different country.” In light of this effort, and due to the relevancy of this resource nowadays, we invite you to read the review written by Kolya Abramsky, ICA’s voluntary Online Resource Centre Editorial Manager, in March of 2022 about this reference document.
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