IV Foro Krisare: debate in Palacio Europa
- Vitoria-Gasteiz will host the IV Foro Krisare on May 8 and 9 at Palacio Europa, bringing together Manuela Carmena, Paco Etxeberria and other speakers. - The 2026 theme is “El silencio que condena,” and the program adds a youth forum with more than 300 participants focused on bullying. - The point is bigger than a conference — Krisare is framing silence itself as a civic failure when injustice, exclusion or abuse becomes normal.
A civic forum is coming back to Vitoria-Gasteiz this week, but the real subject is not just debate. It is silence — who keeps it, who benefits from it, and what happens when entire societies get used to looking away. That is the idea behind the IV Foro Krisare, which runs on May 8 and 9 at the Palacio de Congresos Europa. The headline names this year are Manuela Carmena and Paco Etxeberria, but the event is built to ask a broader question: when does silence stop being neutral and start becoming part of the harm? (noticiasdealava.eus) ### What is Krisare, exactly? Krisare is a recurring forum in Vitoria-Gasteiz built around social reflection, critical thinking and civic commitment. It is not pitched as a technical conference or a party event. Basically, it is a public space for ethics, politics, memory, f(noticiasdealava.eus)t a one-off talk series. (noticiasdealava.eus) ### Why is this year about silence? The 2026 theme is “El silencio que condena” — “The silence that condemns.” The forum’s premise is blunt: not intervening in the face of injustice is not really neutral. If people with voice, status or safety stay quiet, exclusion and abuse(noticiasdealava.eus)king political. (krisare.org) ### Who is speaking? The program pulls from very different worlds. On Friday, sociologist Imanol Zubero and Deusto professor Carlos Gil open the event with sessions on social responsibility, indifference and the ways communities break the silence around exclusion. On Saturday morning, the lineup turns heavier and more public-facing: theologian and activist Pepa Torres, forensic anthropologist Paco Etxeberri(krisare.org)dge Manuela Carmena. That mix is the point — sociology, theology, memory work and institutional experience all circling the same moral problem. (noticiasdealava.eus) ### Why do Carmena and Etxeberria matter here? Because both names carry real symbolic weight in Spain. Carmena is tied to labor law, democratic institutions and a more human idea of public power. Etxeberria is closely associated with exhumations, historical memory and the se(noticiasdealava.eus)t can shape whether injustice is named at all. (noticiasdealava.eus) ### What is the youth angle? One of the clearest additions this year is the Gazte Foroa, a youth space expected to bring together more than 300 young people. Its focus is bullying and exclusion in schools and social settings. That is smart, honestly, because it takes a big a(noticiasdealava.eus)ticipants not just in the audience, but inside the argument itself. (gasteizberri.com) ### Why hold this in Vitoria now? Because the forum is trying to connect local civic life with wider democratic anxieties. The program talks about injustice, inequality, suffering, memory and rights violations — not as isolated issues, but as patterns that become normal when nobody interrupts them. In that sense, the event is less about producing consensus than about making indifference harder to defend. (noticiasdealava.eus) ### So what is the bottom line? This is a forum about public conscience. The speakers matter, and the venue matters, but the sharper point is the challenge underneath it: if silence helps sustain injustice, then speaking up becomes a civic act, not a personal style. That is the bet Krisare is making in Vitoria on May 8 and 9. (krisare.org)
