Agenda (EN)

7:30 – 9:00 Registration

9:00 – 10:00 Opening Session

David Tolbert – President, ICTJ
Lars Vaagen – Ambassador of Norway
Juan Manuel Santos – President of Colombia

10:00 – 10:30 Keynote Address by Mr. Kofi Annan – Chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 – 12:00 Panel 1: Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: the Role of Truth

Moderator:
Alejandro Santos – Director, Revista Semana

Panelists:
Sergio Jaramillo – Colombia’s High Commissioner for Peace
Alan Doss – Executive Director, Kofi Annan Foundation
Álvaro de Soto – Former Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in El Salvador
Marcie Mersky – Senior Staff, Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission and Director of Programs, ICTJ

12:00 – 1:00 Questions from the Audience – Q&A

1:00 – 2:30 Lunch break

2:30- 3:30 Panel 2: Seeking the Truth After Peace: Opportunities, Challenges and Demands

Moderator:
María Camila Moreno – Colombia Director, ICTJ

Panelists:
Christian Tomuschat – Former Chair of the Guatemalan Historical Clarification Commission
Pablo de Greiff – UN Special Rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparation and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence
Jairo Estrada – Member of Colombia’s Historical Commission of the Conflict and its Victims

3:30 – 4:00 Questions from the Audience – Q&A

4:00 – 4:30 Coffee break

4:30 – 5:30 Panel 3: Challenges of a Truth Commission Emerging from a Peace Process in a Context of Widespread and Diverse Social Demand

Moderator:
Gonzalo Sánchez – Director, Colombia’s National Historic Memory Center

Panelists:
Ronald Slye – Former commissioner, Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission of Kenya
Priscilla Hayner – Independent consultant and writer
Marina Gallego – Director, Ruta Pacífica de las Mujeres

5:30 – 6:00 Questions from the Audience – Q&A

6:00 – 6:15 Closing Remarks – Fernando Travesí– Deputy Program Director, ICTJ