María Oianguren and Eneko Calle received the award...
[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...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Terezinha Da Silva, associate researcher at Gernika Gogoratuz in the Territories in Conflict project will moderate the panel "Conflict, violence and gender" at the 6th IESE International Conference to be held from 19 to 21 September in Maputo (Mozambique). Terezinha Da Silva is active in several civil society organisations working in the field of human rights,...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Gernika Gogoratuz continues one more year with the agreement signed since 2019 with the association Österreichischer Auslandsdienst e.V. (Austria) and this academic year 2022/23 Benedikt Vallant will join us as a volunteer collaborator. Benedikt Vallant will be the third "Friedensdiener" (Peace Server) after Werner Lagler in 2020/2021 and Paul Plöckinger in 2021/2022 and will join our...
[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]The team of young people participating in the summer camp of the European project Venues of victims // Venues of perpetrators travelled on Monday 15th August to Zagreb (Croatia) where the two-week programme of activities began. In the 2022 edition Gernika Gogoratuz has five young people: Maitane Urkiaga, Maria Malaxetxebarria, Olaia Mujika, Garazi Saez, Nere...
[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]María Oianguren Idigoras, director of Gernika Gogoratuz, will participate in the Summer Course 2022: Strategies and Instruments for a Stronger Union: Towards a European Sovereignty? as moderator of the round table with the authors of the book The Future of the European Union. Contributions to the Conference, Universitas 2021 Prize. The course is organised by Eurobasque...
