{"id":16684,"date":"2020-01-15T08:07:56","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T08:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icip.cat\/funcions-de-licip-com-a-secretaria-tecnica-a-europa-de-la-comissio-de-la-veritat-de-colombia\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T08:11:00","slug":"funcions-de-licip-com-a-secretaria-tecnica-a-europa-de-la-comissio-de-la-veritat-de-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icip.cat\/en\/funcions-de-licip-com-a-secretaria-tecnica-a-europa-de-la-comissio-de-la-veritat-de-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"ICIP\u2019s role as Technical Secretariat in Europe of the Colombian Truth Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Colombian Truth Commission<\/a> has an innovative mandate without precedent in other truth commissions, which involves working with people who had to flee the country during the five decades of armed conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the case of Europe, in May 2019, the Commission signed a collaboration agreement with the International Catalan Institute for Peace to act as Technical Secretariat, with the aim of facilitating work with Colombian victims, social organizations and institutions in the European countries where these people reside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The centrality of the victims and their active participation <\/strong>in this whole experience means that the process of working with them can in itself constitute an act of recognition towards them and, at the same time, have the effect of healing and closing the wounds brought about by the conflict.\u00a0Therefore, for ICIP as technical secretariat, this process with the victims is the main focus of the work, and has been conceived and addressed as an objective in itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Europe, participation has been structured on three levels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n