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On the occasion of Nelson Mandela's centenary, the Lisbon City Council hosted the conference organized by the Instituto Padre António Vieira (IPAV), led by South African professors John Volmink, also a lawyer and author of several books of law and Jeremy Sarkin, teacher involved in curriculum reform in South Africa, and Portuguese Mónica Dias, coordinator of the PhD program of the Institute of Political Studies of the United States. Portuguese Catholic University
Guests from countries such as South Africa, Timor-Leste, Guinea-Bissau, Colombia and Ireland have exposed the realities of conflicts, their causes and their solutions and have denounced the situations of maladministration of these processes in their country
"While the credibility of the process is established, new mediators can be introduced." dialogue, "said Geoffrey Corry, of Ireland, who also stressed the need for s
Geoffrey Corry, mediator in international conflict for over 30 years, added that Ireland had the chance to resolve the process of pacification and reconciliation in the 1990s, prior to the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 and before. the rise to power of US President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009 or Donald Trump in 2017.
Reconciliation also involves the organization of processes of migration, refuge and asylum between countries neighbors, according to priest Domingos Fonseca of Guinea-Bissau and Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo of East Timor and Nobel Peace Prize in 1996, who recalled that, in addition to the political, social and economic interpretation of conflicts, an analysis religious must also be carried out
Colombia was one of the most cited countries in the post-conflict debate during the meeting, in response to questions asked by Julian Marin and Melissa Gómez Mesa of the Center of Faith and Culture
The maintenance of closed political systems, the violation of fundamental human rights, criminality and the lack of popular participation in political decisions were causes indicated as agri-cultural factors. engraving of conflicts.
During the seven hours of the meeting The struggle of Nelson Mandela in South Africa and the international repercussions were points of convergence for the various speakers
The celebration of the centenary continues Tuesday with an open conference at the Theater Thalia of Lisbon, from June 14th to 14th. : 30, where it will be possible to look at Nelson Mandela's book "Nelson Mandela's Prison Letters"
From 9:15 pm, Largo do Município hosts a gospel show with 20 voices and the film's display "Invictus".
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