Complementary Activities
Throughout the year, the ICIP organizes small-format reflection activities, such as gatherings and analysis sessions, for a specialized public, which allows them to delve deeper into the issues raised.
These are the activities focused on peacebuilding in Mexico.
Indigenous resistance to organized crime and megaprojects
On October 18, 2023, together with the Taula per Mèxic and the Plataforma para la Construcción de Paz en México, ICIP convened a colloquium with representatives of the National Indigenous Council (CNI) and the Centro de Derechos Humanos Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, AC (Frayba) to discuss the growing pressures that many Indigenous communities in Mexico are experiencing, to understand the dynamics of violence they face and to highlight the mechanisms of peaceful resistance that many of these communities they build to prevent attacks and defend their rights.
The colloquium brought together twenty people from the field of human rights defence and peacebuilding and experts in Latin America, both from the social and institutional fields.
Amaidaly Martínez Flores, Oscar Espino Vazquez and Guadalupe Moshan spoke as speakers.
Disappear in Mexico. Violence, vulnerability, resilience and support networks
On November 11, 2019, Dr. Karla Salazar Serna presented the psychosocial aspects of accompanying searchers in Mexico, emphasizing the resilience processes set in motion when emotional support for victims is present.
On this same subject, she wrote the article A Resilient Hug. The relevance of accompaniment in cases of enforced disappearance, published in the magazine Per la Pau of the ICIP.
Building peace in Mexico: what role for the European Union?
As a preliminary activity of the International Forum for the Construction of Peace in Mexico, on July 9, 2019, the ICIP organized a reflection session with Josep-Maria Terricabras, a former member of the European Parliament who is highly committed to peace and human rights in Mexico.
The session’s main focus was a conversation about the significant role of the European Union in this matter.
The event was co-organized with the Taula per Mèxic and Serapaz.
Silence is not an option: strategies of solidarity with Mexico from Barcelona
On May 29, 2019, the ICIP hosted the presentation of the report Silence is not an option, a publication that describes the severe attacks against freedom of the press and expression in Mexico and the risks assumed by the country’s journalists who cover issues such as links between criminal organizations and public authorities, social struggles, human rights violations linked to megaprojects or extractive industries, the search for missing persons, etc.
The event featured Damián Gallardo, a Mexican writer and activist; Montse Santolino, the head of communication at Ladefe.cat; Xavier Giró, director of the Conflict Coverage Observatory of the Universitat Autònoma d Barcelona (UAB); and Majo Siscar, journalist and member of the Taula per Mèxic.
Mexico: human rights, public security and peace in a new political context
On January 24, 2019, a few weeks before Andrés Manuel López Obrador‘s mandate started, the ICIP and the Taula per Mèxic convened an analysis space on the new political situation and its impact on people’s rights, public safety, and peace in the country.
Karen Taxilaga, defender of human rights, Indigenous peoples, and the environment in the state of Hidalgo; Mayra Cisneros, journalist from Sinaloa; and Miriam Ramírez, journalist from Sinaloa. All three speakers were in Catalonia in temporary accommodation programs for human rights defenders and journalists.
Mexico: the security policy under debate
On May 24, 2018, the ICIP organized a conversation with two experts in Mexican security policies: Lucía Chávez Vargas from the Mexican Commission for Defense and Promotion of Human Rights and Raul Benítez Manaut from the Collective for Analysis of Security with Democracy (CASEDE).