Following the international conference at the University of Lille, the book Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity, and Critique was published by Springer in 2021. The lecture and round table talk about Flag of Compassion during the conference in 2018, have resulted in a chapter about the Flag.

From the abstract:

This chapter comprises the Public Declaration of Flag of Compassion, the Manifesto Flag of Compassion, and an Afterword by the Artist. The Public Declaration states how Flag of Compassion is a new art form, a new form of public space and a new form of monument. The Manifesto is a proclamation written from the perspective of the Flag. In the afterword, the artist, Rini Hurkmans, elaborates on the Declaration and Manifesto as she substantiates her motives, intentions, design and choice for a flag. She clarifies how Flag of Compassion functions outside the conventions of normal flags and how a common memory is built with a flag that calls for personal definitions. With this artwork, she wants to create space in which different voices and positions can be articulated and made visible. It is an art form that makes heterogeneity not only seen and heard but also effective. It is effective because it reveals the different ways in which people interpret the concept of compassion as well as what they have in common. The Flag functions as an interruption of assumptions and challenges to (re)define positions that have been taken.

Hurkmans, Rini. ‘Flag of Compassion: Public Declaration, Manifesto and Afterword by the Artist.’ In Flags, Color, and the Legal Narrative: Public Memory, Identity, and Critique, edited by Anne Wagner and Sarah Marusek, 573–91. Cham: Springer, 2021.