A new video of the project ‘Peace Capsules’ , coproduced by ICIP and Col·lectiu Contrast, has been published this week on the ICIP website. It is a short one minute long video entitled ‘What is Peace to Mabel Cañada?’, and in which Cañada, activist from the Basque Country and co-founder of the Lakabe eco-village, considers what peace means to her. The video is accessible both on the ICIP website and on the ICIP Youtube Channel .
Until the 21st September 2014, International Day of Peace, ICIP will publish a new video capsule each week. Each capsule will count with the participation of an activist, actor or academic who will think of what peace means to him/her. The aim of the project is to compile different approximations to the concept ‘peace’ on the ICIP website.
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What is Peace to Paul Salem?
A new video of the project ‘Peace Capsules’, coproduced by ICIP and Col•lectiu Contrast, has been published this week on the ICIP website. It is a short one minute long video entitled ‘What is Peace to Paul Salem?’ and in which Salem, the Vice President for Policy and Research of the The Middle East Institute, considers what peace means to him. The video is accessible both on the ICIP website and on the ICIP Youtube Channel .
Until the 21st September 2014, International Day of Peace, ICIP will publish a new video capsule each week. Each capsule will count with the participation of an activist, actor or academic who will think of what peace means to him/her. The aim of the project is to compile different approximations to the concept ‘peace’ on the ICIP web site.
What is Peace to Paul Salem?
A new video of the project ‘Peace Capsules’, coproduced by ICIP and Col•lectiu Contrast, has been published this week on the ICIP website. It is a short one minute long video entitled ‘What is Peace to Paul Salem?’ and in which Salem, the Vice President for Policy and Research of the The Middle East Institute, considers what peace means to him. The video is accessible both on the ICIP website and on the ICIP Youtube Channel .
Until the 21st September 2014, International Day of Peace, ICIP will publish a new video capsule each week. Each capsule will count with the participation of an activist, actor or academic who will think of what peace means to him/her. The aim of the project is to compile different approximations to the concept ‘peace’ on the ICIP web site.
ICIP books available at the Francesc Boix Library
The books that make up the four series published by ICIP, in collaboration with various Catalan publishers, have been available since November at Poble-sec’s Francesc Boix Library in Barcelona, which has an area specifically dedicated to peace culture.
The ICIP book series are aimed at disseminating peace culture and promoting citizen awareness and training, and the objective of the donation that ICIP has made to the Poble-sec Library is precisely the promotion of this knowledge transfer.
These books, as well as all of the other ICIP publications, are also available to the public at the ICIP Library, which is specialized in peace culture, security and conflict issues. The Library is located at the Institute’s head office (Gran Via 658, baixos, Barcelona).
The new challenges of the Colombian context: an analysis
ICIP participated in the international seminar “The new challenges facing the security sector in the Colombian context,” organized by the National Center of Historical Memory and the War College, which took place last week in Bogotá. Participants included, among others, consultants, researchers, professors, military commanders and a negotiator from the Havana peace process.
ICIP president Rafael Grasa participated in panel 5, entitled “Construction of historical memory, historical clarification, peace and the contribution of the security forces.” Also participating in this panel were General Otto Guibovich, of the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status of Peru; Ricardo Fornero, of the National Defense Ministry; and María Emma Wills, of the National Center of Historical Memory.
What is Peace to Mohlamin Mustafa Brahim?
A new video of the project ‘Peace Capsules’, coproduced by ICIP and Col•lectiu Contrast, has been published this week on the ICIP website. It is a short one minute long video entitled ‘What is Peace to Mohlamin Mustafa Brahim?’ and in which Nvumba, Human Rights advocate, considers what peace means to him. The video is accessible both on the ICIP website and on the ICIP Youtube Channel .
Until the 21st September 2014, International Day of Peace, ICIP will publish a new video capsule each week. Each capsule will count with the participation of an activist, actor or academic who will think of what peace means to him/her. The aim of the project is to compile different approximations to the concept ‘peace’ on the ICIP web site.
What is Peace to Mohlamin Mustafa Brahim?
A new video of the project ‘Peace Capsules’, coproduced by ICIP and Col•lectiu Contrast, has been published this week on the ICIP website. It is a short one minute long video entitled ‘What is Peace to Mohlamin Mustafa Brahim?’ and in which Nvumba, Human Rights advocate, considers what peace means to him. The video is accessible both on the ICIP website and on the ICIP Youtube Channel .
Until the 21st September 2014, International Day of Peace, ICIP will publish a new video capsule each week. Each capsule will count with the participation of an activist, actor or academic who will think of what peace means to him/her. The aim of the project is to compile different approximations to the concept ‘peace’ on the ICIP web site.
ICIP participates in the forum “Truth, forgiveness and reconciliation: a road to peace in Colombia”
The president of the International Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP), Rafael Grasa, will be participating in the forum “Truth, forgiveness and reconciliation: a road to peace in Colombia,” which will take place in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, on April 1-2.
The forum has been organized by the Vice-Presidency of the Republic, and representatives of the international community, social sectors and people affected by the armed conflict will be in attendance. The event has received the support of the Unit for Assistance and Integral Reparation for Victims of the Armed Conflict. This space has been created to promote dialogue among social sectors and people affected by the armed conflict and its dynamics.
Participants also include people who are currently being held in correctional centers so that they can express their points of view. The president of ICIP will give a presentation in defense of the three R’s (resolution, reconstruction and reconciliation) as a road to building peace in Colombia.
Jovan Divjak, ICIP Peace in Progress Award 2013
The ICIP Governing Board decided to award the 2013 ICIP Constructors of Peace Prize to Jovan Divjak, “for his courage, as a military man, to disobey the commands of the Yugoslav People’s Army and defend Sarajevo during the siege of the Balkan War, and subsequently, for his long-standing civic work, with various initiatives in favour of the victims of war”.
From general to peacebuilder
Jovan Divjak was born in Belgrade in 1937 to a Serbian family originally from the Bosanska Krajina region. In the spring of 1992, when the Siege of Sarajevo began, Divjak was ordered by Belgrade to leave the city. He refused and left the Yugoslav People’s Army to serve as a commander in the Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in an act of disobedience and commitment to those suffering from aggression. From this new position, Divjak oversaw and coordinated the defense of Sarajevo – symbol of multi-ethnicity – in front of the attack by Serbian troops led by General Radovan Karadzic.
For this courageous attitude, he has been known as the Serbian one who defended Sarajevo, although he defines himself as a Bosnian born in Belgrade, and is considered a national hero in Bosnia.
After retiring from the military career in 1994, Divjak participated in the foundation of the association OGBH (“Education builds Bosnia and Herzegovina”), of which he is currently the executive director. The association works to ensure the high school of all children who are victims of the Bosnian war, regardless of ethnicity, by providing grants and material support. For his work in the association, Divjak has received numerous local and international recognitions.
The ICIP Peace in Progress Award is an annual award consisting of a public recognition, a sculpture created by the Nobel Peace Prize winner, artist and activist Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, called the Porta del Sol, and an economic endowment of .4,000.
‘La memoria histórica, ¿activo transformador de la desigualdad de género?
‘La memoria histórica, ¿activo transformador de la desigualdad de género?
What is Peace to Mona Hallak?
A new video of the project ‘Peace Capsules’ , coproduced by ICIP and Col·lectiu Contrast, has been published this week on the ICIP website. It is a short one minute long video entitled ‘What is Peace to Mona Hallak?’ and in which Hallak, an architect from Lebanon considers what peace means to her. The video is accessible both on the ICIP website and on the ICIP Youtube Channel .
Until the 21st September 2014, International Day of Peace, ICIP will publish a new video capsule each week. Each capsule will count with the participation of an activist, actor or academic who will think of what peace means to him/her. The aim of the project is to compile different approximations to the concept ‘peace’ on the ICIP web site.