24 - 26 April, 2023

Eventos de Gernika Gogoratuz.

Monday 24 APRIL.
ELAI ALAI ROOM

11:30-12:00 – CONFERENCE OPENING

• José María Gorroño Etxebarrieta. Mayor of Gernika-Lumo.
• Camilo González Posso. President of INDEPAZ. Institute for Peace and Development, Colombia.
• Maria Oianguren Idigoras. Director of Gernika Gogoratuz. Peace Research Center.

12:00-13:30 TRUTH COMMISSIONS. SOUTH AFRICA, TIMOR LESTE AND ARGENTINA

• Jovito Rêgo de Jesus Araújo. Commissioner of the “Truth and Reconciliation Commission” (CAVR) of Timor Leste. Member of the Board of Directors of the Chega National Center. Public Institute of Memory.
• Daniel Nina. Lawyer. Facilitator of Conflict Transformation processes. Professor at the University of Puerto Rico. Expert at the South African Truth Commission. Writer.
• Pablo Díaz. One of the survivors of a group of teenage students who were kidnapped and tortured by Argentina’s civic-military dictatorship (1976-1983). He testified at the “National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons in Argentina (CONADEP)” as a witness to the operation called “La noche de los Lápices”.

Presenter: Camilo Gonzalez Posso. President of INDEPAZ. Master in Economics, PhD in Complex Thinking. Minister of Health of Colombia (1990-1992). University professor (1968 and 1994). Member of the National Commission for Security Guarantees created by the Peace Agreements (2016-2023). Founder and director of the Center for Memory and Peace of Bogotá (2008-2016). Signatory of the Agreements for the Constituent Assembly as spokesperson of the AD-M19. Author of several books on memory and truth, including “Memoria con sentido de futuro”, “Bogotá Ciudad Memoria” and “Memorias para la democracia”.