THURSDAY FEBRUARY 2
INDUCTION:
Place: Main auditorium
- National Anthem of Colombia - Cecilia Silva
- Hymn of Bogota, D.C. - Youth Student Music Group IDARTES
- Commemorative ceremony in honor of the victims of armed conflict and future generations - Victus
Words from Laureates to the victims of the conflict in Colombia:
Schedule: 8:00 A.M. - 9:40 A.M.
Place: Main auditorium
- Tawakkol Karman - Yemen, 2011 Laureate
- Remarks by Bogota Chamber of Commerce President - Mónica de Greiff
- Remarks by Permanent Secretariat of Nobel Peace Laureates President - Ekaterina Zagladina
- Remarks by Nobel Peace Laureates Representative
- Remarks by Bogota Mayor - Enrique Peñalosa
- Remarks by President of Colombia - Juan Manuel Santos
OPENING SESION, PEACE AND DEMOCRACY:
The voices of the Nobel Peace Prize
Schedule: 9:10 A.M. - 10:40 A.M.
Place: Main auditorium
Strengthening democratic governance requires strong and effective institutions capable of responding to the concerns and needs of its citizens, contributing to the promotion of peace, development and prosperity. The panel will discuss democratic governance in society.
- Lech Walesa - Poland, 1983 Laureate
- Óscar Arias Sánchez - Costa Rica, 1987 Laureate
- Mikhail Gorbachev - Russia, 1990 Laureate
- Rigoberta Menchú Tum - Guatemala, 1992 Laureate
- José Ramos Horta - East Timor, 1996 Laureate
- Padre Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo - East Timor, 1996 Laureate
- Jody Willliams - United States, 1997 Laureate
- Lord David Trimble - Northern Ireland, 1998 Laureate
- Shirin Ebadi - Iran, 2003 Laureate
- Mohamed El Baradei - Egypt, 2005 Laureate
- Tawakkul Karman - Yemen, 2011 Laureate
- Leymah Gbowee - Liberia, 2011 Laureate
- Kailash Satyarthi - India, 2014 Laureate
- Juan Manuel Santos - Colombia, 2016 Laureate
- Jean Arnault - France, Special Representative of the United Nations Mission in Colombia
- Moderator: Shlomo Ben-Ami - Vice President of the Toledo International Center for Peace and former Foreign Minister of Israel
- (*) Program subject to change