In the international event, the Unit will combine cultural and intellectual presence. During the 8 days of the Fair, citizen messages will be promoted and collected that consolidate the culture of coexistence and reconciliation among Colombians.

"The keys to rebuild the country are provided by all citizens", is the central theme that the Victims Unit will work on in version 32 of Bogota International Book Fair that will be held between April 24 and May 6, in Corferias.

The Victims Unit, headed by Ramón Rodríguez, will develop various activities in Filbo 2019, aimed primarily at children and young people, so that terms such as peace, justice, reparation and social construction, among others, are not alien or indifferent to the new generations of Colombians and allow them to encourage the construction of new territories in full coexistence.

The Victims Unit during its fourth consecutive participation in the International Book Fair of Bogotá, will have a space in Hall 11, booth 223A with an exhibition of Logs (products resulting from psychosocial repair workshops), on reconstruction of tradition and memory of those who suffered the armed conflict; You will also find the virtual game "Peace-to-the-Voice", with which all visitors can give their opinions and make contributions to the reconstruction of the recovery of a digital population.

This space will also be accompanied by an exhibition of looms, with the purpose of promoting different literary activities, giving rise to the reading of unwritten texts in the search for the recovery of stories of displacement and pain left by the armed conflict. At the 2019 Filbo loom exhibition, Virgelina Chará, from the Union of Costurers, will explain that her presence at the event will be on Wednesday 24 and Saturday 28 April, where they will discuss the development of their pieces that represent the history of conflict from 1900 to 1940; the construction of  Salvajina dam, located in the municipality of Suárez, Cauca and the works that will cover the Palace of Justice in 2020.

The stand of the Victims Unit will also include a large tree trunk that will represent violence and erosion of lives and projects of people and territories, but which, at the same time, will serve as a basis for visitors to fill it of sheets with written messages and drawn, emphasizing that the reconstruction of the country is and depends on each one of us.

Types of violence in the Armed Conflict and Words for Reconciliation

The director of Victims Unit, Ramón Rodríguez, will speak on Friday, April 26, in the Colombia pavilion, at 4 pm, with the theme "Types of violence in the armed conflict", at the request of the analysis of culture of peace that fosters the range of discussions that the event includes.

The dissertation of the director of the Victims Unit has to do with the structural and historical violence that affects the Colombian population and the roads they are traveling for reconstruction.

The director of the entity will be in the conversation to which Ángela Anzola, District Secretary of Women and Catalina Sánchez, director of the Casa de la Memoria museum, were invited. This discussion will be moderated by the journalist and lawyer Judith Sarmiento.

* The program of conversations related to conflict, reconciliation, victims, victimizers and violence, among other subjects that the Bogota International Book Fair will have is the following:

• Friday, April 26 - Aggressors and victims / Time: 6:00 p.m. m. · Place: Jorge Isaacs Room ·

María McFarland (Here there are no dead: a story of murder and denial in Colombia) tells us about the need to remember, make visible and assume what paramilitarism has done to national identity and how circumstances lead a young man to become a criminal. · Moderator: Javier Osuna ·

• Saturday, April 27 - Women who resist adversity / · Time: 4:00 p. m. · Place: Ecopetrol Large room - FILBo D Room ·

Íngrid Rojas Contreras in borrachero´s flower shows us the history of violence through the eyes of a girl and a domestic worker. The writer Adelaida Fernández in the world grows outside subverts the idea of ​​the abused woman and shows us the woman who fights for her freedom. Harold Muñoz, with his novel Nobody shout your name, reveals a woman who, despite all expectations, escapes her social conditioning. The guests discuss the forms of moral reconstruction and empowerment that they propose through their novels. Moderator: Fernanda Trías

• Sunday, April 28 - The violence that touches everything - Time: 2:00 p. m. · Place: Ecopetrol Large room - FILBo D Room ·

Íngrid Rojas Contreras with borrachero´s fruit, a story framed in the Colombian violence of the nineties; Gustavo López Ramírez with the asleep and the dead, a novel that takes place between the 1940s and 1960s, dates that mark the beginning of the contemporary Colombian conflict; and Luis Fernando Luna Maldonado with Here only give away parsley, a story that tells of the vicissitudes of a young man who lives off smuggling between Venezuela and Colombia, gives us different perspectives on what the Colombian conflict has generated in the national identity - Modera: Norberto Vallejo ·

• Demystify left and right / Time: 3:00 p. m. · Location: Ecopetrol Large room - FILBo E Room.

Wendy Guerra and Laurence Debray talk about why in this historical moment it becomes so necessary to reformulate the political notions with which we participate in the construction of our identities. Moderator: Maru Lombardo ·

• Politicizing apathy / Time: 6:00 p.m. m. · Place: Ecopetrol Large room - FILBo F Room

In the current Latin American literary production, many of the writers seem to respond to what George Orwell called "the political commitment with the times". The Uruguayan writer Ramiro Sanchiz (The expansion of the universe), Juan Miguel Álvarez (Green earth burned and Here only give parsley) and David Gil (Collection of tragedies and a woman) talk about the reasons for the politicization of his writing. · Moderator: Rodrigo Bastidas · ·

• Wednesday, May 1st - Notes on war and crime / Time: 3:00 p.m. m. · Place: Ecopetrol Large Room - FILBo F Room

In Abkhaz (language belonging to the northern Caucasian family), says author Daur Nachkebia, "war" means "mutual murder." The work of Élmer Mendoza has been built as an investigation of what men are capable of doing among themselves for power and money. The two authors will explore, from their works, the idea of ​​mutual murder. · Moderator: Roberto Rubiano · 

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