International Symposium on "Healing the Wounds of Slavery: Towards Mutual Recovery"

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The House of Slaves (Gorée Island, Senegal)
An International Symposium on "“Healing the Wounds of Slavery: Towards Mutual Recovery" in Washington DC (USA) on 18 and 19 October 2018.
The UNESCO Slave Route Project: Resistance, Liberty, Heritage, in close collaboration with the Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace (Brighton, United Kingdom), will be organizing an Intentional Symposium on “Healing the Wounds of Slave Trade and Slavery: A Process Towards Mutual Recovery” in Washington DC (USA) on 18 and 19 October 2018 at the Berkeley Centre for Religion, Peace & World Affairs at Georgetown University.
This Symposium, which is organized within the framework of the 70th Anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024), will bring together around 30 scholars and practitioners from different regions of the world to discuss the effects of transgenerational traumas inherited from the slave trade and Slavery, and to identify appropriate approaches and practices to overcome these legacies.
Details
Type of Event | Meeting by Member States or Institutions |
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Start | 18.10.2018 09:00 local time |
End | 19.10.2018 20:30 local time |
Date to be fixed | 0 |
Focal point | Moussa Iye, Ali |
Organizer | UNESCO and Guerrand-Hermès Foundation for Peace |
Contact | Ali Moussa-Iye, a.moussa-iye@unesco.org |
Country | United States of America |
City | Washington, DC |
Venue | Berkeley Centre for Religion |
Street | 3307 M Street NW, Suite 200 |
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Language of Event | English, French, Spanish |
Estimated number of participants | 80 |
Official Website | Website on the Symposium |
Link 1 | More information on the Symposium |
Link 2 | More on the Slave Route Project |
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