The field of memory studies on human rights violations in Latin America is promoting new critical disciplinary areas in history, social sciences, and education. This article particularly analyzes "pedagogy of memory", which is developed from organizations in support of victims of political violence. The main characteristic of these organizations is that they are based on a problematization of the recent past (dictatorships and transitions to democracy) in a framework that considers the organizations’ existential and political processes of the victims, their relatives and intellectual support

Contemporary history, Human rights, Collective memory, Identity, Citizen education.