As part of the Regional Network for Historical Dialogue and Dealing with the Past (RNHDP), Hafiza Merkezi has organized a seven-days training program, in cooperation with the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability Program (AHDA) at Columbia University and Columbia Global Centers | Turkey, The training program hosted civil society professionals working in the MENA and Caucasus region, working on issues including (but not limited to) transitional justice, truth and reconciliation, historical conflict, minority rights, accountability, memory studies, oral history, sites of memory and related areas where historical dialogue is a central component.
Seminar Program & Trainers
June 9th | Historical Dialogue | Elazar Barkan |
June 9th | Contemporary Perceptions of Transitional Justice:Four Pillars or Cement Binding the Foundation? | Refik Hodzic |
June 9th | Truth Commissions: Contributions and Challenges | Refik Hodzic |
June 10th | Oral History, Truth Seeking and Gender | Özgür Sevgi Göral |
June 10th | Archiving, Documentation and the case of Ex-Yugoslavia | Marijana Toma |
June 11th | Historical Commissions | Elazar Barkan |
June 11th | Designing Museums, Memorials, and Exhibits | Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett |
June 12th | Capacity Building Workshop: AHDA and AHDA Fellows' Projects | Ariella Lang |
June 13th | IstanbulSites of Memory Walking Tour | Asena Günal |
June 15th | Peace and Turkey's Peace Process: Opportunities and Challenges | Evren Balta,Murat Çelikkan |
June 15th | Comparative Issues for Civil Societies in MENA and Caucasus Region, and Possibilities of Joint Projects within the RNHDP | Lynn Maalouf |
Participants
| Participant Name | Institution Name | Location of the Institution |
1 | Armine Zakaryan | Peace Dialogue | Armenia |
2 | Lara Aharonian | Women's Resource Center Armenia | Armenia |
3 | Tamar Lobjanidze | International Committee of the Red Cross | Georgia |
4 | Lior Yavne | Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research | Israel |
5 | Yara Hawari | Al Manar | Israel/ Palestine |
6 | Reem El Soussi | Act for the Disappeared | Lebanon |
7 | Hela Boujnah | Association of Defense Of Human Rights | Tunisia |
8 | Berivan Eliş Türkmen | Hafıza Kaydı | Turkey |
9 | Serkan Akbaş | Diyarbakır Bar Association | Turkey |
10 | Mukadder Ezel Yılmaz | Diyarbakır Arts Center | Turkey |
11 | Tahir Elçi | Diyarbakır Bar Association | Turkey |
12 | Hülya Üçpınar | Nonviolent Education and Research Center | Turkey |
13 | Ebru Ergün | Tarlabaşı Community Center | Turkey |
14 | Fezile Osum | Initiative for Freedom of Expression | Turkey |
15 | Mariat Imaeve | European Human Rights Advocacy Centre | UK |
16 | Maryam Hosseinkhah | Justice for Iran | UK |
17 | Abdelghani Boutria | Mich’al Association of Families of the Disappeared | Algeria |