Robert Francis Garcia
(2003 - 2004)
Contact Information:
bobgar@pacific.net.ph
Bio
Robert FrancisGarcia is an activist and current Programme Officer of the Asian-South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education, a regional network of education NGOs and institutions which maintains operational relations with UNESCO and represents Asia in the UNESCO Consultative Council of NGOs for Education for All. He is also Chair and Spokesperson for Peace Advocates for Truth, Justice, and Healing (PATH), and Consultant on Theorizing and Organizational Development with Popular Education for People’s Empowerment (PEPE). Garcia has a B.S. in Community Development from the University of the Phillipines and Masteral Units in People’s Diplomacy from the People’s Diplomacy Training Program, with certificates in Popular Education and Leadership Development from the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, and the Asian South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education in New Delhi, India, respectively. Mr. Garcia is a widely published author of among other book To Suffer Thy Comrades: How the Revolution Decimated its Own (Anvil Press, 2001), a study of the Party's bloody anti-infiltration purges, which won the 2001 National Book Awards Social Science category, and was on the National Bookstore bestseller list on November 2002. He is also author of Of Maps and Leapfrogs: Popular Education and Other Disruptions which contributes to philosophy of popular education. . The topic of his project is “Breaking the Bonds of Silence: Narratives of Trauma within the Philippine Revolutionary Movement."
Selected Bibliography
Publications
- 2001, To Suffer Thy Comrades: How the Revolution Decimated Its Own, Manila: Anvil Press
- 1999, Of Maps and Leapfrogs: Popular Education and Other Disruptions, Quezon City: Popular Education for People's Empowerment [PEPE]
Links
- Statement of Bobbie Garcia, Torture Abolition and Survivors Coalition International
- Killing for a Cause
- Between a Rock and a Hard Place
- The World (Record) According to Jay Leno
