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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HISTORICAL MEMORY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The 10th Anti-militarist and Historical Memory Conference in Gernika will focus on local initiatives for the recovery of historical memory in the Urdaibai region and will present two local investigations that culminated in the subsequent tributes carried out in Gernika-Lumo and Busturia. - The military hospital for prisoners of war in Gernika...

[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]We present the latest publications of the Gernika Network that we have made available to all those interested on our website in PDF format. They are "El declive económico de Busturialdea-Urdaibai: dilemas y propuestas" by Ramón Zallo Elgezabal and "Visión integral de la comarca de Busturiualdea-Urdaibai" by Xabier Arana Eiguren, Rosa de la Asunción and...

[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]Gernika Gogoratuz invites you to participate in the presentation of the book Visión Integral de la comarca Busturialdea-Urdaibai that will be held on the 18th of October in Ertzilla Dorrea. Arrantzaleen Museoa in Bermeo at 18:30h. The event will focus on the current situation and future of Urdaibai and will present the results of the research...

[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 educational programme "Gernika City of Peace in the 21st Century" today welcomed the visit of the "Albert Schweitzer" Institute from Hürth (Germany), which carries out exchanges with the German School of San Sebastian-Donostia. The group of 47 pupils and 4 teachers travelled around Gernika on two routes, visiting the different important historical-memorial sites of...

[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...