EUROCLIO Ambassador report on "Education for Remembrance"

In Strasbourg, France, an International Conference “Dealing with a past left unsaid – Challenges and opportunities for institutions and civil society actors” was held November 21-23. The overall topic was active remembrance: how to learn from the past in order to avoid a repetition of the bloody conflicts, which tormented Europe in the 20th century. Participants were many partners dealing with the memory of the past and its transmission to the younger generations in Europe. Most worked at memorials, for example as curators or researchers, but educators were present as well. In workshops was discussed how to include different viewpoints, how to avoid making one’s own ethnic or national group at the top of a hierarchy of victims and the others as only perpetrators, and how to encourage the young generation to think about solutions to present-day problems. 

 

Promoter of the conference was ALDA, The Association of Local Democracy Agencies, which is a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the promotion of good governance and citizen participation at the local level. 

and the Europe for Citizens Programme supported the conference.