Foundations
As part of a partnership between UPEC and the Institut Pour La Paix, this co-constructed project aims to design an interactive transmedia platform — both digital and physical — to enrich democratic debate around peacebuilding and collective memory. It pushes back against the predominance of images of war by making visible plural and positive forms of conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and remembrance of wars and migratory experiences.
Through a partnership between UPEC and Institut Pour La Paix, this project co-builds an interactive transmedia platform — digital and physical — capable of enriching democratic debate on peace-building practices and collective memory. It counters the dominance of war imagery by making visible plural and positive forms of conflict resolution, peace-building, and the memory of wars and migratory experiences.
✦ Warmikuna
Warmikuna tells us about Peru, torn between 1980 and 2000 by an armed conflict of great violence. Most of the people killed and disappeared were Indigenous. Women, especially in rural areas, were particularly affected: it is through their testimonies and their actions that we grasp the scale of what happened and the practices of resistance they set in motion. Searching tirelessly for the disappeared, refusing to let imposed silence become the rule, giving voice back to the absent: in the post-conflict period, these have become true political wagers for transformative peacebuilding.
✦ Poésie Des Arts Désarmés
Poésie des arts désarmés takes us to Venezuela, and even more so to the Venezuelan migrants who, because of the economic and political crisis the country is going through, have had to leave everything behind to set out for various destinations, exposing themselves to criminalisation and violence. Following these journeys, highlighting migrants’ ability to keep moving forward, is a way of bringing dignity to their lives in the midst of hardship.
✦ Sanaduría
Sanaduría is set in Colombia, a country where a long-running armed conflict persists, one that has directly affected more than 8 million people and caused mass displacement. Rural territories inhabited by Indigenous, peasant and Afro-descendant communities are the most affected. Yet, despite the destruction wrought by war, people keep inventing alternatives to turn frustration and anger into dignity and political action.