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8 January, 2026

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]This research by Jon Urutxurtu focuses on one of the many colonies that took in thousands of evacuated children: the Lurdes Euzko Aur-Etxea camp, located in the town of Jatsu in Labord, which cared for 34 Basque children (11 from Gipuzkoa and 23 from Bizkaia). Contributors: Provincial Council of Gipuzkoa, Gogora and Gernika Gogoratuz.   Author: Jon Urutxurtu...

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14 December, 2023

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]Whenever we spoke amongst colleagues about the bombings during the Spanish Civil War and foreign involvement – particularly Italian involvement – the same comment always came up: “How little has been discussed, written or translated in Spain – and even less so in Italy – on this subject! We have to do something.” With this...

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13 February, 2023

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]This document brings together the presentations and discussions that took place during the summer course ‘The Right to the Truth as a Tool for Peacebuilding. International dialogue based on the experience of Colombia, organised by the Hegoa Institute of the University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU) and the Basque Government’s Directorate for...

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8 February, 2023

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]The “Sharing Memories” Workshop Laboratory, designed to develop methodologies of truth and memory tailored to the Colombian context, led to the creation of a tool adapted to the Colombian context. This tool incorporates the perspectives and experiences that the participating organisations have developed throughout their journeys in building peace in Colombia, in ways that...

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30 January, 2023

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]This essay deals with cultural heritage and historical memory. It examines various museological, memorial and commemorative practices linked to the transmission of traumatic historical knowledge. Taken together, these constitute cultural heritage established with the aim of expressing collective emotions and suffering that have been repressed and condemned to silence due to their association with...

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21 September, 2021

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=""]"Memorialab: Dialogue, Memory and Social Healing in the Basque Country: A Methodological Note"  is part of the publication “The SAGE Handbook of Participatory Research and Inquiry”, the first handbook to offer the most comprehensive source of contemporary and cutting-edge approaches to the methods and design of participatory research, as well as the fundamentals of...

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10 November, 2020

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Afaloste es un laboratorio gastronómico-social donde un grupo diverso e intergeneracional de personas se reúnen en torno a un txoko o sociedad gastronómica, comen y conversan juntas sobre sus experiencias personales en torno a la violencia de motivación política sufrida durante décadas en Euskadi.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Tanto la iniciativa Memorialab como Afaloste están diseñadas bajo un enfoque de...

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10 November, 2020

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Afaloste, laborategi gastronomiko-soziala da. Bertan, talde anitz eta belaunaldi arteko bat txoko edo elkarte gastronomiko batean elkartzen da. Elkarrekin jan eta hitz egiten dute, Euskadik hamarkadetan zehar pairatutako jatorri politikoko indarkeria garaian, bakoitzak izandako esperientziaren inguruan.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Bai Memorialab ekimena eta bai Afaloste ikerketa-ekintza ikuspegian oinarrituta diseinatu dira. Nolabait, urteetan zehar (2013-2020) elkar elikatzen doazen ekintza- eta...

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3 November, 2020

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Afaloste is a gastronomic-social laboratory where a diverse and intergenerational group of people gather around a gastronomic centre, eat and talk together about their personal experiences of the politically motivated violence suffered for decades in the Basque Country.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Both Memorialab and Afaloste initiatives are designed under an action-research approach. In a way, they combine cycles of...

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3 November, 2020

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Afaloste est un laboratoire gastronomique et social où un groupe de personnes diverses et intergénérationnelles se réunissent autour d'un centre gastronomique, mangent et parlent ensemble de leurs expériences personnelles de la violence politique subie pendant des décennies au Pays basque.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Les intitiatives Memorialab et Afaloste sont toutes deux conçues selon une approche de recherche-action. D'une certaine...