{"title":"Analysis of the Role of the United Nations on the Repatriation of the African National Congress Liberation Archives of South Africa, 1960–1990","authors":"N. S. Netshakhuma","doi":"10.1080/15332748.2021.1992209","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The paper gave an empirical assessment of the role played by the United Nations (UN) on the repatriation of the African National Congress (ANC) liberation archives from all over the world back to South Africa. The paper employed a case study design. Data were collected through interviews and analysis of documents. The study found that little role was played by the UN to enforce international treaties or conventions to member states to repatriate ANC missing liberation archives from countries such as Italy and Spain. The study concluded that ANC is to engage in bilateral and multilateral relations to influence the repatriation of liberation archives.","PeriodicalId":35382,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Archival Organization","volume":"17 1","pages":"253 - 271"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Archival Organization","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15332748.2021.1992209","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Social Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract The paper gave an empirical assessment of the role played by the United Nations (UN) on the repatriation of the African National Congress (ANC) liberation archives from all over the world back to South Africa. The paper employed a case study design. Data were collected through interviews and analysis of documents. The study found that little role was played by the UN to enforce international treaties or conventions to member states to repatriate ANC missing liberation archives from countries such as Italy and Spain. The study concluded that ANC is to engage in bilateral and multilateral relations to influence the repatriation of liberation archives.
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The Journal of Archival Organization is an international journal encompassing all aspects of the arrangement, description, and provision of access to all forms of archival materials. Articles on processing techniques and procedures, preparation of finding aids, and cataloging of archival and manuscript collections in accordance with MARC, AACR2, and other rules, standards, and cataloging conventions are only part of what you"ll find in this refereed/peer-reviewed publication. The journal places emphasis on emerging technologies, applications, and standards that range from Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and methods of organizing archival collections for access on the World Wide Web to issues connected with the digitization and display of archival materials.