Kazerne Dossin is a memorial, museum and expertise center on the Holocaust and human rights located in Mechelen, Belgium. It commemorates the 25,484 Jews and 352 Roma and Sinti deported from Belgium during World War II through the SS transit camp located there from 1942-1944. The center works to educate visitors and different target groups on the mechanisms of violence, radicalization, and polarization through its collection of over 1.6 million digitized documents. It aims to foster reflection on the past, present and future of the Holocaust and human rights through connecting law, memory, and civic responsibility.

1. Kazerne Dossin: Memoriaal, Museum & expertisecentrum over Holocaust & Mensenrechten

2. Kazerne Dossin: Lieu de Mémoire

3. 25.484 Joden & 352 Roma & Sinti (5% overleefde)

4. SS-Sammellager ’42-‘44

5. Spiraal van toenemend massageweld - cumulatieve radicalisering & polarisering

6. De mechanismen van het geweld - een duivelse transitie

7. Herdenking / Educatie / Doelgroepen

8. 1,6 miljoen gedigitaliseerde documenten => beeldbank.kazernedossin.eu

9. Holocaust & Mensenrechten / Verleden-Heden-Toekomst

10. Learning from the past & reflecting on the present

11. Connecting Law & Memory => www.connectinglawandmemory.eu

12. Kazerne Dossin: Memoriaal, Museum, expertisecentrum => Civic Connector

13. a bounded social space where reflection,
memory and story win out over violence
"Musea hebben de plicht om maatschappelijke standpunten in te nemen,
een morele verantwoordelijkheid op te nemen, om burgerschap en
kritische reflectie te stimuleren."
Elaine Gurian Heumann

15. PUSH => PULL & CONNECT

16. The word “Inzovu” means “Elephant” in
Kinyarwanda, the native language of
Rwanda.
The model takes this name from the
similarity of its curve to the elephant
trunk, representing the ability to move,
act, and extend one own’s reach
toward others.
The elephant is also a universal
symbol of long lasting memory,
representing the history upon which
such action is built.

19. Empathetic
Feeling
Compassionate
Action
BURNOUT
RISK
SHUTDOWN
RISK
Tania Singer Model: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/12/tania-singer-compassion-burnout
Empathy Compassion Model

20. A genocide memorial is meant
to trigger a profound personal
reaction. This is a moment of
suffering and creates a strong
emotional connection to what
happened.
This moment should happen
multiple times during the
experience itself.
It’s meant as a way to
decompress for sensible
people, and a space to
think for everyone.
While genocides are terrible
events, there are always heroes
that shine through.
These people are often highly
relatable because are normal
people that do positive acts. It’s
hope for the humanity.
While it’s difficult to generate
action in each and every person,
this moment is made possible by
the ones before.
In a sense, the pain prepares the
seeds that then reflection is able
to turn to something positive,
while hope gives examples to
follow and show how others
acted positively.
EXPERIENCE STAGES

21. Motivation and ability to act
Personal connection to the
experience of genocide

22. EMOTIONAL OUTCOME
Each individual has a completely
personal baseline that is a neutral
starting state.
The vertical axis maps below the line
the intensity of empathic response,
down to the potential burnout or
shutdown; and above the line the
intensity of compassionate
disposition.

23. TRAINED
People trained in compassion, such as
experienced mindfulness practitioners,
experienced monks and other experts,
might even entirely avoid the empathy
resonance part and shifts immediately
to compassion.
This is of course a rarer type of person,
but it’s a good example on how
different people could have a sensibly
different response.
EMOTIONAL
This represents the experience of a
sensible person, that resonates quickly
with the feelings and has a more
difficult time coming out.
For this person it’s very important to
have frequent occasions to stabilize
and reflect, helping this person to
avoid going too deep and reach
burnout/shutdown states.
IDEAL
This is the curve mapped on an
average person that gets to the ideal
stage of emotional growth.
It represents a deep empathy dive with
multiple stages of reflection, followed
by an uplift shift to compassion.
This ideal scenario is the reason why
this curve is the one chosen as the
standard form of the Inzovu Curve.

26. Aware: a person is aware of
the facts and can apply critical
thinking, but it’s purely
knowledge and rationality.
Empathic: a person who is
able to use its emotional
intelligence to connect to
other people.
Advocates: people that have
been able to transform their
empathic response to action.
Catalysts: advocates able to
guide other people through the
behaviour scale.

27. organisation: www.ufungu.be
network radicalisation & polarisation
securitization of everything
social fabric of everything
from counter narrative to connecting narratives
creating spaces for …

28. PUSH => PULL & CONNECT

29. christophe.busch@kazernedossin.eu