Gorka Espiau Idoiaga
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
October 2005 – July 2006
Europe | Ethnic Conflict | Conflict Management
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Project Focus
New Opportunities for Peace in the Basque Region and Spain: Civil Society’s Unique Contribution to Conflict Transformation
Languages: Spanish, Basque
Gorka Espiau Idoiaga is director and spokesperson for Elkarri, the movement for dialogue in the Basque region of Spain. He is also a member of the executive board of the HEGOA University Institute for International Cooperation and Peace at the University of the Basque Country; a member of the organizing committee of the First International Conference on the Human Right to Peace, held in 2004 in San Sebastian; and a member of the European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation.
Espiau served as a logistics operator for nongovernmental organizations in Croatia and Bosnia, where he also worked on assistance programs for Bosnian refugees.
He holds a graduate degree in information sciences and journalism from the University of the Basque Country.
Available on usip.org:
Publications:
- The Basque Conflict: New Ideas and Prospects for Peace
Special Report, April 2006
- "Owning the Process: Public Participation in Peacemaking," Accord: An International Review of Peace Initiatives, Barnes, Catherine (ed.) (Conciliation Resources, 2004).
- "Spain and the Basque Conflict: Still Looking for a Way Out," Searching for Peace in Europe and Eurasia: European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002).
- The Role of the Media in the Basque Conflict, co-author with Petxo Idoyaga and Txema Ramírez de la Piscina (Alberdania, 2002).
