• Event: Towards Survivorship: From victims to citizens
• Date: Monday, November 30,
• Time: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
• Location: Comisión 4

Victim assistance can be provided in a way that promotes victimhood. It can highlight reparations alone as a condition for recovery. It can lack the end-goal of creating a true opportunity for full and effective participation in all walks of society.  Or, it can be provided in a way that addresses long-term recovery, facilitates victims’ full reintegration into society and furthers empowerment and self-reliance, with the goal of enabling survivors to themselves define and carry out their life visions.

In this roundtable discussion, survivors of conflict, experts in the field of victim assistance, and policy makers from around the world will share their experiences in order to identify key issues and propose lines of action for creating effective assistance plans.

Panlists:

Mr. Zeljko Volas, Peer support Outreach Coordinator, Landmine Survivors Initiatives, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Ms. Pastora Mira, Promoter of wellbeing and mental health, Conciudadania, Antioquia, Colombia

Mr. Gerson Hernández, President of National Seeds of Hope Network, CIREC, Norte de Santander, Colombia

Dr. Eduardo Pizarro, President of the Colombia National Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation

Ms. Susan Helseth – Deputy Director, Mine Action Coordination Centre, Afghanistan
Moderator: Dr. Jairo Arboleda – Senior Advisor, Survivor Corps, Colombia

For more information: tleibowitz@survivorcorps.org

November 10, 2009, 12:55pm   Comments