Burden of Peace

Screening of the documentary, followed by a discussion with Sander Wirken, director of the documentary, Sciences Po Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) alumni.

Moderated by Gaspard Estrada, lecturer at Sciences Po and researcher at OPALC. 

 

Burden of Peace follows Guatemala’s first female attorney general Claudia Paz y Paz who battles impunity and prosecutes former political leaders for genocide. She fights a frontal attack against impunity. She obtains spectacular results and many high level arrests are made. But her determination encounters strong resistance from powerful elites, that feel above the law. Will Claudia be able to win this battle?

 

This event is co-sponsored by PSIA and OPALC (Observatoire Politique de l’Amérique Latine et des Caraïbes) and supported by Niños de Guatemala.