FUNDACIÓN VÍCTIMAS DEL TERRORISMO 96 - ENGLISH

disappearance whose resolution remains unknown. Decades later, the lack of cer- tainty keeps many of the questions raised at the time alive. The panel’s third voice was Pilar Muro, widow of businessman Publio Cordón, kidnapped by GRAPO in 1995. Althou- gh investigations established part of what happened, the family has never been able to recover his remains. Muro described the hardship of a search lasting years and the consequences of living without a de- finitive answer. All three agreed on an essential point: di- sappearance radically changes how loss is confronted. While death allows grieving to begin, unexplained absence keeps ex- pectations, questions and contradictory emotions alive. Hope and despair coexist for years, making it difficult to move on. Throughout the event, the organisers defended the university’s role as a pla- ce of knowledge and civic commitment. Research into terrorist violence’s conse- quences seeks to understand the past and provide tools for building a society more aware of the effects of intolerance and fanaticism. The event ended with a reflection sha- red by many participants: remembe- ring the disappeared is an ethical and democratic duty. Keeping their memory PAMPLONA SUMMER COURSE alive means recognising families’ suffe- ring, defending the right to truth and preventing time from imposing silence. As long as questions about what happe- ned remain unanswered and people are waiting for answers, society retains a responsibility to keep searching, inves- tigating and listening. Remembrance cannot bring back tho- se who are missing, but it can prevent them from disappearing from our co- llective conscience too. In the task of preserving names, stories and dignity, meetings such as this make a funda- mental contribution to ensuring victims retain their rightful place in democratic remembrance. Remembering the disappeared is an ethical and democratic duty. Keeping their memory alive means recognising families’ suffering, defending the right to truth and preventing time from imposing silence EDUCATION AND COEXISTENCE 38