H.R.H Crown Prince Haakon and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates Ramos-Horta and Belo to report launch in Oslo
H.R.H Crown Prince Haakon, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates José Ramos-Horta and Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, State Secretary Tore Hattrem (Norwegian MFA) and Bishop Gunnar Stålsett are among the contributors when the English version of the Chega! report of the Timor-Leste Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) is launched tomorrow, 25 January, at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. A number of East Timorese, Norwegian and international experts and academics also participate.
H.R.H Crown Prince Haakon, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates José Ramos-Horta and Bishop Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo, State Secretary Tore Hattrem (Norwegian MFA) and Bishop Gunnar Stålsett are among the contributors when the English version of the Chega! report of the Timor-Leste Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation (CAVR) is launched tomorrow, 25 January, at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo. A number of East Timorese, Norwegian and international experts and academics also participate.
In his capacity as Goodwill Ambassador, H.R.H the Crown Prince in 2015 conducted a three day long field visit to Timor-Leste, together with the United Nations Development Program, UNDP. At the launch the Crown Prince will share his impressions as well as photos from his trip. Expert panels will furthermore focus on the topics of Timor-Leste’s road to independence, transitional justice and questions of amnesty, memory and reparation, including parallels to other peace processes, like the one in Colombia. Moreover, the role of the UN as an agent of post-conflict stabilisation and state-building will be discussed, in the event organised by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and NOREF.
CAVR was established in 2001, and it was mandated to look into human rights abuses and facilitate reconciliation and justice. "Chega" is Portugese and means “no more, enough”; in other words, the human rights violations preceding Timor-Leste’s independence in 2002 must never be allowed to reoccur.
As Norwegian Special Envoy to Timor-Leste, Bishop Gunnar Stålsett has been one of the international community’s most prominent supporters of the work and mandate of CAVR, which is seen as one of the most successful truth commissions among the more than 40 that to date have been established worldwide.
The 3200 pages report contains a thorough description of the CAVR`s creation, activities, victim support, community reconciliation work and truth-seeking about human rights violations between 25 April 1974 and 25 October 1999 as well as findings and recommendation. A shorter version, Chega! A Plain Guide is also available (link below).
Links
http://www.cavr-timorleste.org/
http://www.cavr-timorleste.org/chegaFiles/ChegaPlainGuide.pdf
