Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > The Guantánamo Bay Oral History Project, 2011.Scope and ContentsThe Guantánamo Bay Oral History Project began in July 2010. Primarily focusing on Guantánamo Bay as the most visible symbol of the political and social consequences of the post-9/11 global War on Terror, the project urgently addresses the need to gather historical information from a diverse range of people who witnessed, experienced, and challenged the expansion of a global network of detention. In the first year of our work, we have conducted almost 100 new hours of interview with a wide range of individuals, including civilian and military defense attorneys, former military personnel, U.S. government officials from the Departments of State, Defense and Justice, human rights advocates and investigators, grassroots activists, psychologists, and former British prisoners who have been detained at Guantanamo, Bagram and Belmarsh. In the second year of our work, we will work with a global network of those who are organizing to protest policies of torture and terror, including former prisoners and their families and friends who are faced with the necessity of rehabilitation and adjustment. The project is generously funded by The Atlantic Philanthropies
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