Guatemala and its Search for the Disappeared

Discussion with Fredy Peccerelli, Director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation

Thursday, October 2, 2014 4:30 PM EDT
Music Theater Building, 1006

Fredy Peccerelli will discuss the multidisciplinary strategies that FAFG uses to carry out forensic investigations of the disappeared, applying techniques drawn from social anthropology, criminology, forensic anthropology, forensic archae- ology and forensic genetics. He will also discuss how that information is used in seeking justice for these human rights abuses.
Mr. Peccerelli is a founding member of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation and has been directly involved in the investigation of hundreds of mass gravesites. He has also lead forensic archeological investigations of war crimes in Bosnia & Herzegovina for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. In May 2012 he was awarded with the Puffin/Alba award for Human Rights Activism together with Kate Doyle from the National Secu- rity Archive, and in December 2012 he received the Canada's Governor General David Johnston’s Special Honors Medal.