Publications

Museum object here, archival record there: Museological-archival dis:connections in the 2019 restitution of the Witbooi family bible

Leah Niederhausen

May 12, 2026 | Editorial: cultural infrastructures in Africa

Leah Niederhausen

Dec 16, 2025 | Tweedewereldoorlog.nl

In this special issue on Cultural Infrastructures in Africa, Leah Niederhausen reflects on archival-museological shifts during the restitution process of the Witbooi Bible and their implication on institutional frontiers of restitution narratives at large.

“What is the restitution that you are calling for?”: Hoe Namibische belongings uit Duitse collecties terugkeren

Leah Niederhausen

Dec 16, 2025 | Tweedewereldoorlog.nl

“Restitution is a social process in itself, which reflects and reproduces existing power structures.”

Herstel als maatschappelijke opdracht: zichtbare transformatie van relaties

Nicole L. Immler & Niké Wentholt

Dec 1, 2025 | Tijdschrift voor Herstelrecht

The Child Benefits Scandal harmed individuals, families, and social relationships. This article explores societal repair using theories of transformative justice, resonance, and the justice continuum, presenting repair as a multi-level process.

Historical abuse in Dutch Catholic institutions: A qualitative evaluation of victim-survivors’ experiences with redress procedures

Naomi Ormskerk, Maarten Kunst & Nicole Immler

Nov 22, 2025 | International Review of Victimology

This study examines survivors’ experiences with redress mechanisms for historical abuse by Catholic clergy in the Netherlands, showing that empathetic, participatory procedures fostered greater recognition and agency than rigid, adversarial processes.

Emotienetwerken in tijden van ongemak

Rosa Mul & Limor Reshef

Oct 14, 2025 | Tijdschrift voor Conflicthantering

In this article, Rosa Mul and Limor Reshef explore how emotion networking can also be valuable in providing insight into emotions about the genocide in Palestine and share their insights about two sessions they organized at the UvH.

The Multivoiced Archive: Connecting Oral Histories of Historical Injustices

Nicole Immler

Sept 1, 2025 | The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict

How to make the archive speak? This entry by Nicole Immler is about rethinking the oral history archive—an archive in which “unheard voices” will be voiced in ways they might more easily and differently listened to.

Exploring the ICTY as Cultural Heritage

Siri Driessen & Niké Wentholt

July 18, 2025 | The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict

This entry by Niké Wentholt and Siri Driessen explores how the ICTY in The Hague, as a site of cultural heritage with layered narratives, can be transformed into a place of multidirectional memory.

Daadwerkelijk veranderen

Eva Mulder, Niké Wentholt, Naomi Ormskerk, Yara Bodegraven, Jake Smit & Nicole Immler

June 27, 2025 – revised may 2026 | WODC

In this commissioned research for WODC, researchers from DoJ worked together with other UvH-researchers to study government measures to recognize violent in youth care.

Catholic Clergy Abuse in the Netherlands: The Role of Social Relations in Redress Procedures

Naomi Ormskerk, Maarten Kunst & Nicole Immler

May 29, 2025 | Victims & Offenders

This article examines how redress procedures for clerical abuse in the Netherlands shape and are shaped by survivors’ social relationships, showing that relational and intergenerational dynamics are central to experiences of justice and healing.

Restitution as Restoration and Transformation

Leah Niederhausen

April 9, 2025 | The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict

Leah Niederhausen wrote an entry on restitution as both a restorative and transformative concept for The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict.

Finding the Truth but Ending the Conversation? How Dutch Civil Court Cases on the Srebrenica Genocide Shaped the Space for Reparation

Niké Wentholt & Alma Mustafić

April 5, 2025 | Netherlands Yearbook of International Law

Niké Wentholt and Alma Mustafić wrote a chapter on repair for the Srebrenica genocide in the Netherlands Yearbook of International Law.

‘Unburden us and them’: encountering ‘the other’ in meetings between Bosnian genocide survivors and Dutch UN veterans

Siri Driessen, Jeannette van Brenk, Nicole Immler & Eric Vermetten

March 28, 2025 | Frontiers in Sociology, Medical Sociology

The Dutch government has offered Dutchbat 3 veterans and their partners to return to Srebrenica and meet with women survivors of war and genocide. Siri Driessen, Jeannette van Brenk, Nicole Immler and Eric Vermetten aim to identify which conditions need to…

Holocaust Reparations. Scrutinizing “the Model” in Transitional Justice

Nicole Immler

Mach 19, 2025 | Redefining Reparations, Wassenaar 1952 and the Global Politics of Repair

Nicole Immler wrote a chapter on Holocaust Reparations ‘Holocaust Reparations. Scrutinizing “the Model” in Transitional Justice’, in the book Redefining Reparations, Wassenaar 1952 and the Global Politics of Repair.

How (Post) Memory Matters to Justice

Nicole Immler

Dec 30, 2024 | Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization

“How can narrating the past change the future?”. This volume is a dedication to the work of Ann Rigney. Nicole Immler wrote a chapter on ‘How (Post) Memory Matters to Justice’.

Wéér vergeten we te luisteren naar de gedupeerden in het Toeslagenschandaal

Nicole Immler & Niké Wentholt

Nov 6, 2024 | NRC

In the reporting on the Child Benefit Affair, the experiences of the affected parents and young people are in danger of being lost, according to Nicole Immler and Niké Wentholt.

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