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XV GERNIKA AWARDS FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION 2019

Picture © William Kelly, Alex Carrascosa

On April 26 at 12.00 h. awards ceremony, in the Lizeo antzokia of Gernika-Lumo.

In this edition the awards are:

  • CHRISTOS STYLIANIDES (European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management)
  • PAUL PRESTON (Historian)
  • ÁNGEL VIÑAS (Historian)
  • XABIER IRUJO (Historian)

Gernika Awards for Peace and Reconciliation first started back in 2005 by Gernika-Lumo’s city council and Pforzheim, Gernika Gogoratuz and the Gernika Peace Museum foundations with the major aim of publicly acknowledging natural persons, juridical entities, institutions or other types of groups that, trough their efforts, have contributed to peace-building and promoted reconciliation.