FORGOTTEN TRAGEDIES: REMEMBERING THE PAST AND MOVING TOWARDS RECONCILIATION

As a wrap-up of its series of regional webinars organised in 2021, and in the spirit of the World Council of Churches’ (WCC) pilgrimage of justice, reconciliation and unity, the WCC Commission of the Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) is offering this webinar entitled

“FORGOTTEN TRAGEDIES:

REMEMBERING THE PAST AND MOVING TOWARDS RECONCILIATION”

The event will be moderated by Rev. Dr Peter Cruchley, incoming Director of the WCC’s Commission for World Mission and Evangelism, and co-facilitated by Rev. Dr Mikie Roberts, WCC Programme Executive for Spiritual Life and Faith & Order.

Speakers

• Sandiswa Lerato Kobe, lecturer at University of South Africa
• Dr Catherine Namakula, chairperson of the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (video contribution)
• Martha Pedoniquotte, Community Capacity Development Coordinator of the Indigenous Ministries and Justice Unit, United Church of Canada
• Rev. Prof. Dr Konrad Raiser (Evangelical Church in Germany), former WCC general secretary
• Prof. Fabian Salvioli, UN special rapporteur on the Promotion of Truth Justice Reparations and Guarantees of Non-Recurrence