• Landscape view of a remote house, with water in the foreground and mountains in the background.
Protest sticker on the forced disappearance of the 43 students from Ayotzinapa. An orange sticker with the words "43 #Nos Faltan Ayotzinapa". Photo: Padaguan via Wikimedia Commons

Centering the Victim

Niamh Thornton, co-editor of Legacies of the Past explores the changing role of the victim in discussions of violence. A change of focus towards the victim A shift is taking place in whose stories are told. It has been a…