Peace culture

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gernika Gogoratuz is taking part in the annual Aipaz Conference with a delegation made up of María Oianguren Idigoras, director of the centre, Jokin Alberdi Bidaguren, president, Andreas Schäfter, from European Programmes and Juan Gutierrez, founder and first director, in a special edition as it is the 25th anniversary of the association. The event will...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gernika Gogoratuz celebrated its 35th anniversary yesterday, 6th November, in a ceremony attended by the Mayor of Gernika-Lumo, José Mari Gorroño, Juan Gutiérrez, first director, Jokin Alberdi, president of the Peace Research Association and María Oianguren, director of the Peace Research Centre. The meeting highlighted the work carried out in the field of peace and conflict...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The call for nominations for the "René Cassin" Human Rights Prize 2022 awarded by the Basque Government is open from 12 October to 11 November 2022. The aim of the award is to publicly recognise and reward individuals or groups who, through their professional career, have committed themselves to the promotion, defence and dissemination of Human...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]On 30 September and 1 October, the MARCH TO BRUSSELS will start under the slogan Rights! No Deaths! organised by more than 130 European organisations and countries of origin of migrants. The march is a demand for the enforcement of international human rights law at borders and the administrative regularisation of people living and working...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The ICIP (International Catalan Institute for Peace) will hold the award ceremony for the ICIP Peacebuilding 2022 Prize on Wednesday 21 September, the International Day of Peace, which will take place at the Parliament of Catalonia at 5.30pm. This year, the award recognises a plural set of civil society initiatives in the Basque Country "for their...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]María Oianguren Idigoras, director of Gernika Gogoratuz and Liliana Zambrano Quintero from the University of Deusto and researcher at Gernika Gogoratuz will take part in the summer course "The right to truth as a tool for peacebuilding. International dialogue based on the Colombian experience", which will take place on 7 and 8 September at the...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Iñigo Retolaza and María Oianguren will facilitate the Workshop Laboratory "Sharing memories" for the construction of truth and memory methodologies adapted to the Colombian context inspired by the initiatives of "MemoriaLab" and "Afaloste", initiatives for the social construction of memory in the Basque Country that have been carried out by Gernika Gogoratuz. The Workshop Laboratory...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gernika Gogoratuz met with Luz Mary Osorio, Human Rights Defender from Antioquia (Colombia) who visited Gernika-Lumo as part of the agenda of the Basque Programme for the Temporary Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a programme managed by Zehar. He was accompanied by Beatriz Ruiz from Zehar, and Mercedes de Madrazo from Mugarik Gabe. In addition to...

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The Gernika Gogoratuz team will today attend the presentation of the Final Report of the Truth Clarification Commission of Colombia after three years of investigation into the causes, responsibilities and consequences of the Colombian armed conflict, carried out within the framework of the Integral System of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Non-Repetition. The report is the result...