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
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