Lácides Hernández Alvarez

Lácides Hernández Alvarez (born December 3, 1965 ) is a Colombian theologian , social entrepreneur and peacemaker .

Life

Lácides Hernández Alvarez studied theology at the Universidad Seminario Bíblico de Colombia ( Bachelor ) and did a Master's in Management and Organizational Development at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. He attended numerous training courses, including a. in executive leadership, leadership training, mediation, restorative justice , the APAC method, the program victims and perpetrators in conversation and mentoring of leaders.

Hernández has been with Confraternidad Carcelaria de Colombia (CCC) since 1992 . The affiliate organization of Prison Fellowship International was founded in 1980 and has worked since then in the prisons of Colombia, with families of prisoners, ex-prisoners, with people in a vulnerable situation and with victims and perpetrators of armed conflict . CCC advocates the principle of restorative justice and its motto is prevention - rehabilitation and support .

Hernández began as one of the first in Colombia to proclaim and implement restorative justice programs. Since 2004 he has been running the program “Conversation between victims and perpetrators” (Sycamore Tree Project) in prisons and in society. In 2013 he led the program “Villages of Reconciliation”, which has been carried out in Rwanda since 2003 by Prison Fellowship Rwanda with perpetrators and victims of the genocide , adapted to Colombian conditions, also carried out there. Victims of the armed conflict, ex- guerrilla fighters and ex- paramilitaries take part in roundtables and jointly rebuild destroyed infrastructure in their villages. In 2011, he introduced the Brazilian APAC method to Medellin prisons . The focus is on the human worth of the occupants.

Prison Fellowship Colombia has been a partner organization of the German association Seehaus eV since 2001 and is supported by the Hope Bearers Foundation . Tom Koenigs , the former spokesman for human rights policy of the Greens parliamentary group and representative of the Federal Foreign Minister for the support of the peace process in Colombia appreciates the "work of Seehaus eV and its partner organization Prison Fellowship Colombia" as "an important contribution to the peace process and reconciliation in Colombia" a.

Functions

• President of Prison Fellowship Colombia
• President of the Latin American Conference of Prison Fellowship International
• Member of the global board of directors of Prison Fellowship International
• Co-founder of the Colombian Institute for Human Rights

honors and awards

• 2003 “Herald of Peace” by the Asociación Internacional de Periodistas y Comunicadores Cristianos ¨ASIPEC¨ in the Congress of the Republic of Colombia
• 2017 Lionheart of the Leonberger non-profit organization Human Projects - together with Nobel Peace Prize laureates Michail Gorbatschow , Franz Alt , Eugen Drewermann and Franz Pinztal

Web links

• Confraternidad Carcelaria de Colombia
• Seehaus eV: Colombia - Reconciliation and Integration
• Hope Bearer Foundation: Peace through reconciliation of victims and perpetrators

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peace and Reconciliation. Retrieved April 18, 2019 . 
2. ^ Colombia meeting: Commitment to peace and reconciliation. Retrieved April 18, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Quiénes Somos. Retrieved April 18, 2019 . 
4. ^ Reconciliation in Rwanda. Retrieved April 18, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Latin America: Peace Treaty in Colombia - and then what? Retrieved April 18, 2019 . 
6. ↑ A piece of the puzzle for peace in Colombia. Retrieved April 18, 2019 . 
7. ^ Peace Commissioner for Colombia. Retrieved April 18, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Lácides Hernández Alvarez. Retrieved April 18, 2019 . 
9. ↑ Leadership. Retrieved April 18, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Changemakers. Retrieved April 18, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Lácides Hernández Alvarez. Retrieved April 18, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Call for more humanity and solidarity. Retrieved April 18, 2019 .