María Emma Wills Obregôn
Invited Researcher of DEA Programme Stay in France: from September 27 to November 4, 2018
Published at 1 October 2018
Since 2012, Dr. Wills is Advisor to the Director at the Colombian National Center for Historical Memory (NCHM). In 2014, amidst the conversations between the guerrilla group FARC and the Colombian Government in La Havana, Dr. Wills was designated as the only woman among 14 scholars who each had the task to elaborate an explanatory narrative of the armed conflict and presented to public opinion. She has also been leading “improbable” and often difficult conversations as a contribution towards peace, in particular with the Colombian Security Sector. She has organized international seminars and opened the door to the reconstruction of memories of military and police members who were victims of events Violating IHL.
Title: The Colombian National Center for Historical Memory's Trajectory from a critical engaged perspective
Keywords:
Transitional Justice/ Historical memory/ Symbolic Reparation/ State policies on historical memory
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