Eamon gilmore autobiography example

Thank you Erkki for the introduction and for the honour and privilege of speaking to Historians without Borders today and to join Professor Wills at this event. During that time, I have seen how much the history of Colombia has influenced the conflict, the peace process and indeed how it continues to influence events today. Firstly, I am not a historian, but I have always felt that formal history attaches too great an attention to the history of war and conflict and not attention to the history of making peace and of people living in peace.

Therefore, the idea of peace and history rhyming is a theme that I would like to develop. Of course, as with many Greek tragedies, it still resonates today. It is about the conflict between personal integrity and political expediency. It is about the ways in which the victims of injustice can become as devoted to the contemplation of their wounds as the perpetrators are to the justification of what they have done.

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In Colombia, peace and hope have become synonymous. But the history of the country, as the history of countries do everywhere, continues to influence politics, and in some respects I think it is also raising obstacles to the future of peace in Colombia. When I think of the history of Colombia, I think of two things. It is of course a very old history and one that long predates the arrival of Europeans.

It is a very rich history, particularly of its indigenous peoples. But there are two things that stand out for me in the more recent history of Colombia. The first is that Colombia is one of the oldest and longest enduring democracies in the world. For more than two hundred years, since its independence in the second decade of the nineteenth century, Colombia has been a continuous democracy with just one interruption, which was in the mids, a period of four years of military rule.

It is a democracy that is almost as old of that of the United States and with a very similar system of government.