Alexandra Missirian’s paper "Mapping Wounds: Planning as Violence in Argentina's Dirty War" discusses testimony as an integral part of national healing in post Dirty War Argentina. More specifically, the paper explores healing through testimony as a planned process which requires two types of archives: that of the survivor and that of the abuser. Because this conflict took place entirely within the bounds of one nation, healing, or even forward motion, on a national scale following such severe national trauma requires participation from both sides. She argues that while the archive of survivor testimony is well supplied and that of the abuser is sorely lacking, this silence on the part of the abuser, even and especially post-conflict, is both violent and damaging to the process of healing.
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