Towards the Nonviolent Future of Latin America

On Friday, October 1, the facilities of the Civic Center for Peace in Heredia began with words of welcome and support for the activity of the Vice Mayor of the Municipality of Heredia, Ms. Angela Aguilar Vargas.

The doors of the Civic Center for Peace are open to continue carrying out this type of activities in favor of Nonviolence and we hope that next year we will have the possibility of carrying out more face-to-face activities open to the entire Herediana community, said the Vice Mayor.

The Forum transmitted by the page of Facebook of the Latin American March for Nonviolence, was developed throughout the day with very interesting talks and with the participation in topics of ancestral wisdom of the original peoples of Latin America, Inclusive Societies for all people and ecosystems, Proposals for Nonviolent actions against structural violence, and ended with the conversation; Actions in favor of disarmament in Latin America.

Second day of the Forum

On October 2, we continued with the last two talks of the Forum; Mental Health and inner peace necessary to build nonviolent communities and we closed the Forum with the Exchange of experiences of actions in favor of Nonviolence of the new generations.

During these 2 days, 31 specialists from 7 countries (Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile), addressed the 6 Thematic Axes that were proposed in this First International Forum Towards the Nonviolent Future of Latin America.

We have given ourselves an exact month, to November 2, to publish the memories, the summaries and the possible future actions to continue the work started in this Forum so that each table has the possibility of continuing to interweave their networks, join forces, exchange and even manage joint actions.

Artistic expressions after the Forum

At the end of the Forum, two artistic expressions starred in the luxury closing of the activity; the BoNila Band and the Tariaca folk dance group.

Fernando Bonilla, Victor Esquivel and Guillermo Vargas (Staff), not only delighted us with their good music and vibration, but Fernando provided motivation with his reflections and positive messages in favor of the proposals of this March and Forum that ended.

The public present and those who followed the social networks greatly enjoyed BoNila's show.

And when everything seemed to end, the presence of the Tariaca folk group emerged, from the Costa Rican Caribbean, once again the UNED is present, with the participation of this group of young people, who put the entire audience present at the Civic Center for Peace in Heredia to dance, and thus adorned the closing, also followed by many people in Latin America and beyond of the Continent through the Facebook page of the Latin American March for Nonviolence.