‘Healing Memories and Building the Future’ at The Beirut Spring Festival 2015

The Beirut Spring Festival, created and launched in 2009 by the Samir Kassir Foundation, is inspired by the title of one of the last articles written by Samir Kassir, shortly before his assassination in 2005.

Without coming to terms with its past, a society cannot build its future. Drawing from the experiences of many countries that established mechanisms to deal with memory, such as Spain, Chile and Northern Ireland, this panel will look at what has not been done in Lebanon and the results of the political choice of amnesty and amnesia. The debate will also shed light on measures that can be established to ensure that post-conflict Syria can undergo a sustainable truth and reconciliation process.

Speakers: Ziyad Baroud (former Minister of the Interior and Municipalities, Lebanon); Josefina Cuesta Bustillo (University of Salamanca, Spain); Luciano Fouillioux (Museum of Memory, the National Institute for Human Rights, Chile); Jane Morrice (former Deputy-Speaker of the Northern Irish Parliament, UK)
Moderator: Carmen Abou Jaoudé (International Center for Transitional Justice, Lebanon)

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