Institutes Space for Memory
The Institutes Space for Memory are institutions that have the purpose of: collecting, systematizing and preserving documentary and testimonial material corresponding to the period of the last military dictatorship; carrying out activities (e.g. exhibitions, courses, conferences, etc.) that raise awareness regarding the human rights violations that were committed during that time and giving properties that used to be clandestine detention centres (or in which emblematic events occurred during the dictatorship) new uses, which increase historical awareness. They were created by initiative of the Legislative Power of the City of Buenos Aires and the province of Santiago del Estero, each at its respective administrative level. The Institutes and are made up of representatives of governmental entities and non-governmental Human Rights organizations. In Buenos Aires? Institute participate also 6 citizens with experience working in the field of Human Rights. Buenos Aires? Institute was dissolved in 2007 by a pact signed between the Government of the City of Buenos Aires and the National State, through which the former gave the latter control over properties that functioned as Clandestine Detention Centers that were previously managed by the Institute.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- restricted
- Type of participants
- citizens civil society
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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