Memories for life

Logo de Memorias para la vida

Memories for life: dialogues for the construction of cultures of peace in deep Colombia (2023-2024)’ is a project being carried out by Gernika Gogoratuz Peace Research Centre, together with the Schools of Peace Foundation, with the support of the Council of Bizkaia.

It aims to contribute to the consolidation of cultures of peace in societies that are going through or have gone through situations of armed conflict and/or political violence, based on scenarios of recovery of memories and truths, as well as generating a critical and reflective citizenship, and mobilising transformative actions with a focus on rights and intersectionality.

It is a process that is linked to the Legacy for the appropriation of the Report of the Truth Clarification Commission (CEV) presented in June 2022. The project is being carried out in 6 territories in Colombia and is integrated into Exile as another territory of work.

BACKGROUND


(2022-2023)


The project is inspired by the experience of Gernika Gogoratuz with the participatory methodology MemoriaLab ‘Spaces for the social construction of memory’, in which the participants themselves are the driving force behind the processes and generators of knowledge.

(2022-2023)


Based on this knowledge exchange in Colombia, the Memories for Life Guide was designed using a methodological tool that seeks a critical appropriation with a social sense of truth as a basis for understanding and appropriating the report of the Commission for the Clarification of the Truth (CEV) and its recommendations for coexistence and non-repetition.

(2022-2023)


Talleres

ANTECEDENTES 


With this tool, five regional workshops were set up to validate and provide feedback on the methodology in the departments of Caquetá, Putumayo and Boyacá and in the territories of Soacha (Cundinamarca), Bogotá, D. C. and Sumapaz.

MEMORIES FOR LIFE (2022-2024)


OBJECTIVES


Objetivos Memorias para la vida

APPROACHES


Enfoques del proyecto Memorias para la Vida

WORKPLACES


Lugares de trabajo del proyecto Memorias para la Vida

WORK AXES


Ejes de trabajo del proyecto Memorias para la Vida

MATERIALS


Guía metodológica: encuentros de memoria y verdad. Memorias de vida. Gernika Gogoratuz

Download the methodological guide

MATERIALES


Resumen del proyecto Memorias para la vida

Download the project summary

MATERIALES


Video del proyecto Memorias para la vida

Watch the video summary of the project

NEWS


Taller Basoa, Memorias para la vida

Workshop at the Casa de Defensoras in Basoa Artea.
June 2024

NOTICIAS


Taller Memorias para la Vida. Boyaca

Workshop in Puerto Boyaca.
March 2024

NOTICIAS


Taller Memorias para la Vida. Cienega

Workshop in Ciénega.
March 2024

NOTICIAS


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Workshop in El Doncello, Caquetá.
February 2024

Images provided by Fundación Escuelas de Paz (Colombia).

PARTNERSHIPS


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