Salomón Lerner Febres

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Salomón Lerner Febres (born July 19, 1944 in Lima , Peru ) is a Peruvian human rights activist , philosopher, lawyer and former head of the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation , who investigated the circumstances of the armed internal conflict (" conflicto armado interno ") in Peru between 1980 and 2000 examined and educated.

Life

Salomón Lerner Febres was born in Lima in 1944 into a Hungarian-Jewish (on his father's side) and a Peruvian-Catholic family (on his mother's side). He studied law at the Catholic University in Lima and completed his studies in 1968 with a dissertation on Gustav Radbruch ( La idea del Derecho en la Psicología Jurídica de Gustav Radbruch ). From 1968 to 1973 he studied philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. At the Institut Supérieur de Philosophie he was in 1973 with a dissertation on L'essence du nihilisme dans la pensée de Martin Heidegger to Dr. phil. PhD. From 1976 to 1978 he was a guest lecturer at the University of Cologne - as a scholarship holder of the Latin America-Germany Scholarship Association. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association . As a philosophy professor, he is a recognized Heidegger expert and primarily deals with ethical issues. Lerner is a member of the Peruvian Academy of Language and Literature ( Academia Peruana de la Lengua ).

From 1994 to 2004 Salomón Lerner was rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru , based in Lima, and from 1999 to 2004 he was also president of the Unión de Universidades de América Latina (UDUAL), the association of universities in Latin America. As rector of the university, he founded the " Instituto de Democracia y Derechos Humanos " (IDEHPUCP - Institute for Democracy and Human Rights ), of which he is still President (as of 2020). The institute links academic research with the socio-political practice of the struggle for human rights. Among other things, it checks whether the recommendations of the Truth Commission will be implemented or not.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Lerner gained public attention for his performance as chairman of the Truth Commission for the Elucidation of the Circumstances of the Peruvian Civil War ( Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación , CVR) from 2001 to 2003. On August 28, 2003, Lerner presented the final report, which included the whole Documented the extent of the crimes in the bloody civil war in Peru. Since the report revealed who was responsible for the crimes, former military officials pounced on defamation charges - unsuccessful - and received numerous death threats.

Honors (selection)

  • Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur , 2002.
  • Medalla de Honor del Congreso de la República en grado de Gran Cruz (Grand Cross of the Medal of Honor of the Parliament of the Republic of Peru), 2003.
  • Human Rights Prize of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation , 2005.
  • Honorary doctorate from the Sorbonne and other universities

Fonts (selection)

  • Nietzsche y el Ocaso de la Metafísica. In: Revista Humanidades de la PUCP. Vol. 5 (1972/1973).
  • Introducción a la Filosofía . Fondo Editorial PUCP, Lima 1975 (and other editions).
  • Areté o la travesía del pensamiento. In: Areté. Vol. 1 (1995), No. 7, pp. 163-169.
  • ¿Globalización o mundialización? Impacto sobre los "Ethos" de la educación. La perspectiva del Perú. In: Bira. Boletín del Instituto Riva-Agüero. Lima. No. 23 (1996), pp. 63-88.
  • Verdad y reconciliación. Reflexiones éticas . CEP, Instituto Bartolomé de las Casas, Cuzco 2002.
  • The rebelion de la memoria . CEP, PUCP, Lima 2004, ISBN 9972-816-82-6 (contains lectures and essays from the years 2001 to 2003, which describe the working methods and the results of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission).
  • The essential role of ethics in the development of Latin America . IDB Cultural Center, Washington, DC 2004.
  • Against the Olvido. In: Sanar, no tanto castigar. Justicia restaurativa y paz en Colombia. Fundación Alvaralice, Cali 2006, ISBN 958-98026-0-5 (Congress report ).
  • El Poder Revelador de la Palabra. In: Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua. Vol. 42 (2006), pp. 183-200.
  • ¿Por qué leer a Heidegger hoy? In: Miguel Giusti, Elvis Mejía (Ed.): ¿Por qué leer Filosofía hoy? Fondo Editorial PUCP, Lima 2007, ISBN 978-9972-42-864-7 , pp. 197-211.
  • Universidad, Fe y Razón. Discursos de apertura de los años académicos 1995-2004 en la PUCP . Fondo Editorial PUCP, Lima 2007, ISBN 978-9972-42-805-0 .
  • (as editor): Against oblivion: Yuyanapaq. Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Peru . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Ostfildern 2008, ISBN 978-3-7867-2720-0 .
  • Art. Peru. In: Wolfgang Benz et al. (Ed.): Handbuch des Antisemitismus. Hostility to Jews in the past and present . Volume 1: Countries and Regions . De Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-24071-3 , pp. 272-275.
  • Reacción de la sociedad peruana y de la elite política ante the informe final de la Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación. In: Ders., Margit Eckholt (ed.): Ciudadanía, democracia y derechos humanos. Reflections en vista a la conmemoración del bicentenario de la independencia . Abya-Yala, Quito 2009, ISBN 978-9978-22-808-1 , pp. 15-28.
  • ¿Se Aprendió la Lección del Conflicto Armado Interno? In: Luis Pásara (ed.): Perú ante los Desafíos del Siglo XXI . Fondo Editorial PUCP, Lima 2011, ISBN 978-9972-42-948-4 , pp. 49-73.
  • Truth, Justice and Reconciliation - A Philosophical Approach. In: Thomas Schreijäck et al. (Ed.): Horizont Weltkirche. Experiences - topics - options and perspectives. In honor of Josef Sayer . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7867-2925-9 , pp. 158-175.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Jacques Étienne, Jean-Pierre Deschepper, André Léonard , Regnier Pirard: Chronique de l'Institut Supérieur de Philosophie. In: Revue Philosophique de Louvain. Quatrième série, Volume 71 (1973), Issue 12, pp. 816-844, here p. 832.
  2. ^ Jorge JE Gracia: Directory of Latin American Philosophers . State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst 1988, p. 63.
  3. ↑ Violence, Remembrance and Justice. A conversation with the Peruvian philosopher Salomón Lerner Febres. In: Journal for Human Rights. Vol. 5 (2011), Issue 2, pp. 88-97.
  4. ↑ Equipo de trabajo , accessed on January 22, 2020 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Hildegard Willer: The perpetrators are doing great. Interview with the former President of the Peruvian Truth Commission, Salomón Lerner. In: ila , issue 319 (October 2008), pp. 24-25.
  6. ^ Informe de la Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación , accessed on August 18, 2015 (Spanish).
  7. ^ Network of Concerned Historians (NCH): NCH ​​Campaigns 1995–2015 , campaign 2009, circular no. 60, therein: Peru - Salomón Lerner Febres. P. 1, accessed on August 18, 2015.

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personal data
SURNAME Lerner Febres, Salomón
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Peruvian human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Lima , Peru