Temporal Conflicts and the Victimhood Communities (Un)Bound by Memory

Does time really heal everything? Time, of course, is not a healer, yet it is believed that a painful and difficult situation will seem less bad as time passes. How can we capture and explore the role of time in the experiences of the victims? How do relationships between the past, present, and future, inform, manifest in, and shape the lives of those affected by terrorism? Is the memory of trauma suffered frozen in time and minds like a photograph and immune to the passing of time? This chapter will engage with questions of the temporality of victimhood within communities bound by memory as a shared experience. It will analyse time as a fluid, rather than static, multifocal rather than narrowly perceived category reflected in victims’ experiences.