Salomón Lerner Febres (PER)

is Rector Emérito of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru and was president of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Lerner Febres received his PhD in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) and conducted post-doctoral studies in Berlin and Cologne (Germany). His manifold research interests aim for the philosophy of Heidegger as well as for justice and reconciliation. He published Condiciones para lograr una reconciliación (2007); La memoria, la justicia y el rescate del proyecto democrático: reflexiones a partir de la violencia en el Perú (2006); Informe final de la Comisión de la Verdad y Reconciliación together with B. Alva Hart and others (2003); El Pensamiento filosofico en America Latina Hoy (1985); La Esencia del Nihilismo y la Historia del ser, in Memoriam Martin Heidegger (Peru 1976).