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- Visual tools for memory and peacebuilding: The Reconstruirnos ProjectPublication . Correa, Laura Ivonne Peralta; Figueiredo, FilipeThe visual memory of the war in Colombia is facing numerous challenges in the current times. The excessive number of images and "normalisation" of war and suffering in the country has resulted in a threat to memory. Additionally, censorship of cases against humanity committed by illegal armed groups associated with high-profile commanders has further weakened the memory. In big cities, people are "insensitive" to the suffering of those in remote areas affected by war. This is because official media, which is often allied with those in power, tends to "sanitise" images and news to prevent the public eye from knowing the truth and judging them, as happened in the massacre of the village of El Salado in 2000. In this context, it is essential to create new tools that allow "citizens" to understand, empathise with, and activate in the victim's favour, "the non-citizens," so war cases would not be repeated. The motivation for the development of this project arises from an "emergency claim" taken from a news item in official Colombian media to work on new ways of reviving memory focused on the case of the El Salado massacre perpetrated in 2000. Based on a war case and the importance of images for the construction of memory and mobilisation, the Reconstruirnos project creates three tools based on visual culture and design to revive memory, pay tribute to the victims, narrate the story and involve the "citizens" so that they become "activated" towards the construction of peace and non-repetition.