This article argues for a comparative approach to studying genocide memorialization. Memorials and museums form an intrinsic part of state and society in post-conflict societies, and a comparative approach can capture the dynamics of memory politics and state building at play, especially the reception and instrumentalization in different national arenas of transitional justice mechanisms and the ways in which international agendas interact with domestic ones. The article first reviews the small existing comparative literature, and then offers a discussion of three potential comparative approaches: the transfer of representational strategies and discourses of remembrance by museum or memorial staff who serve as consultants for new projects; how genocide museums construct evidence or proof of genocide, and how these constructions might be received by victim and perpetrator groups in post-genocide societies, and by international visitors; and, finally, how the differences between official memorials and other places of memory might resist hegemonic state narratives.

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