Dario Colmenares Millán is a Program Director for ICSC’s Global Initiative for Justice, Truth, and Reconciliation, currently focusing on enhancing truth-telling and documentation efforts in Colombia and Bangladesh. Before joining ICSC as a staff member, Dario actively contributed to its Latin American network, and, as a specialized consultant in documentation and memorialization, led GIJTR’s program “Supporting Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Colombia” in 2018 focused on strengthening participatory processes with the Truth Commission and the Unit for Searching the Disappeared.

Prior to joining ICSC, he played a central role in the Centre for Memory, Peace, and Reconciliation in Bogotá since its creation in 2008, where he coordinated participatory truth-telling programs in arts and culture with ethnic and rural communities for nearly a decade. He has also been a consultant in transitional justice for several international donors in the implementation of the Colombian peace process, including the Embassy of The Netherlands and the Embassy of France and has extensively participated in promoting memorialization initiatives in the Latin American region. He has also been a book editor and documentary producer with several Colombian NGOs and institutions.