Gernika¥s 17th international convention on culture and peace
Programme

APRIL 23, Wednesday

Venue: Euskal Herria Museum

18:00-18:30. Registration and delivery of materials.

18:30-19:00. Inauguration of Gernika's 18th International Convention on Culture and Peace.

  • Jose María Gorroño.Mayor of Gernika-Lumo and President of the Gernika Gogoratuz Foundation.
  • Iñigo Iturrate. Director of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights, Regional Government of Biscay.
  • Xabier Sánchez.Director of Youth and Community Action of Basque Government.
  • Jon Mirena Landa. Director of Human Rights of Basque Government.
  • María Oianguren.Director of Gernika Gogoratuz Peace Research Centre.

19:00-21:00. Plenary Session: Cosmopolitism and the Local Peacebuilding.

  • Dekha Ibrahim Abdi. "A tale of Wajir: How a group of women stopped a war". Conflict Consultant and Peace Practitioner, Camel Bell Ltd. Promoter of Wajir Peace Initiative, Kenya. Candidate for the list of 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005. Recipient of 2007 Right Livelihood Awards.
  • Shanti Christine Arulampalam. "Women in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding at grass root level in Sri Lanka". Executive Director of Survivors Associated, Sri Lanka. Candidate for the list of 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005.
  • Vicent Martínez Guzmán."Cosmopolitan Localism for building peaces". Director of the UNESCO Chair of Philosophy for Peace. Universitat Jaume I, CastellÛn.

Presentation: María Oianguren. Gernika Gogoratuz.

APRIL 24, Thursday

Venue: Euskal Herria Museum

1st Morning Session

09.00-12:00.Women's Participation in Local Peacebuilding.

  • Amal B. M. Khraisha. "The role of the women in building a Just Peace in the Near East". Director of Palestinian Working Women Society for Development, Ramallah, Palestine.
  • Irantzu Mendia Azkue."Features of Women's Activism for Peace". Institute HEGOA-University of Basque Country, UPV-EHU, Basque Country.
  • Itziar Ruíz-Giménez."African Women: Challenges for a real protagonism in the peace processes". Doctor in International Relations at the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the Autonomous University of Madrid and founding member of the African Studies Group.
  • Almaz Haile-Selassie Woderyeleh.Chairperson of Adehno Integrated Rural Development Association, Ethiopia.

Presentation: Jokin Alberdi. UPV-EHU, Gernika Gogoratuz.

12:00-12:30. Break

2nd Morning Session

  • Marta Eugenia Fernández y Jessica Jazmín Pérez. "Spread of Colours" Systematisation of Experiences of the assembly of the Association Mujeres del Mundo Munduko Emakumeak. Mujeres del Mundo. Basque Country.
  • Nadia Koubia. "Women as agents of change in Rif". Women's Forum-Alhucemas, Rif, Morocco.
  • Beatriz Rodríguez. "Building region with woman's perspective". Candidate for the list of 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005. Asociación de Mujeres Productoras de Cárnicos (ASOMUPCA) Colombia.

Presentation: Iñaki Goitia. Gernika Gogoratuz.

14.30-16:30. Lunch break.

16.30-18:30. Afternoon Session

Venue: Euskal Herria Museum

Memory, poetry and politics

  • Cristobal Bianchi. "Art and Politics: Obstacles and Conditions for Bombing Europeans Cities with Poems (case of Guernica and Dresden)". Doctorate student in Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London, England.
  • Alex Carrascosa."Memory of BatzArt, creactive assembly to support dialogue and participative democracy". ArtamugarriaK and responsible of Art & Peace of Gernika Gogoratuz.
  • Daniel Nina. "Remembrance: memory, [no] people and plurality". Associate Professor, Faculty of Law Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico.

Presentation: María Oianguren, Gernika Gogoratuz.

APRIL 25, Friday

Venue: Euskal Herria Museum

09:00-11:30. Morning Session

Youth. New Proposals for Local Peacebuilding

  • Shirin Anisoldoleh. "Willfriede (wantpeace) A Peace project for Young People - Overview of Work of wienXtra". Responsible Associate of Jugend in Wien of wienXtra (a unit of child and youth work operating on behalf of City of Vienna), Austria.
  • Carlos Cruz. "From student violence to youth movement. A self-construction of peace and a retrospective view". Director of Cauce Ciudadano AC, Latin-American School for Youth Social Action, Mexico.
  • Winnie Lawoko-Olwe. "Education as a strategy for Youth (for) Local Peace Building - Northern Uganda". Program Director of Associated Children's Empowerment Network (ACEN), Uganda.
  • Gorka Ruiz. "Constructing paths toward peace and non-violence among youth". Director of Bakeola, Foundation EDE and vice-president of the Forum of Human Rights and Peace Education Association, Basque Country.

Presentation: Roberto Solarte. Coordinator, Peace Programme, Javeriana University of Bogota.

11:30-15:00. Free time and cultural sightseeing. (Recommendation: Visit to Gernika Peace Museum, Euskal Herria Museum, tour of the town and Urdaibai Biosphere Reserve)

15:00-17:30. Afternoon Session.

Venue: Euskal Herria Museum

Continuation: Youth. New Proposals for Local Peacebuilding

  • Ainhoa Azkua. "Girls and boys playing at Peace". Street Animator, Association Ostargi, Basque Country.
  • Khalid El Moulahid. "How to make school a place of education for equality, culture of peace and diversity". Womenís Forum -Alhucemas, Rif, Morocco.
  • Amaia Nicholson. "Facing the concentration of power and denial of rights to sovereignty of people, the youth Comrades".
  • Oier Plaza. "Occupation of Astra and the participative process KM-0". IEUP!! Youth Assembly, Gernika. Basque Country.
  • Jerónimo Poché."Youth creating a Culture of Peace in the midst of conflict. An initiative according to the Cosmovision Nasa". Peace practitioner & promoter of civil resistance in indigenous communities and member of the indigenous community los Paeces del Nororiente del Cauca, Colombia.

Presentation: Andreas Schäfter. Gernika Gogoratuz.

17.30-18:30. Open session for final conclusions.

Presentation: Ahmadul Haque. Gernika Gogoratuz.

18.30-19:00. Closing Ceremony of Gernika's 18th International Convention on Culture and Peace.

26 APRIL, Saturday

71st Anniversary of the Bombing of Gernika

10.30-11:00. 12th Meeting of the Surviving witnesses of the Bombing of Gernika.

  • "The Bombing of Gernika", presentation of book edited by Idem and Expressive.
  • "Pedagogy of Memory" presentation of the didactic unit, Gernika Gogoratuz

Venue: Lizeo Theatre

11:30-12:30. Gernika Peace and Reconciliation Awards - IV Edition.
Venue: Lizeo Theatre

16:30.Floral Offering for the Victims of the Bombing of Gernika.
Venue: Cemetery of Zallo, Gernika.

27 APRIL, Sunday

14:30. Lunch offered to the survivors of the Bombing of Gernika.

Hosted by: Town Hall of Gernika-Lumo.
Venue: Zallo Barri.