Imagine: Reflections on Peace
Author: The VII Foundation
Publisher: SparkPress
Print Length: 408 pages (with 200 photographs)
Genre: Non-Fiction / Essay, Photojournalism
Area: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Colombia, Iraq, Lebanon, Liberia, Northern Ireland, Rwanda, South Africa, Syria
Actors: Liberian, International Criminal Court (ICC)
Topic: Peace, Imagination, History, Historical Reconstruction, Challenges & Opportunities, Future Scenarios, Similarities & Differences, War, Civil War, Conflict & Post-Conflict, Armed Conflict, Crimes, Crimes against Humanity, Ethnic Cleansing, Fragile State, Genocide, Violence & Mass Violence, Suffering, Torture; Memory, Remembering and Forgetting; Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Psychology, Psychosocial, Human Psyche, Narcissism, Refugees & Forced Migration, Humanitarian Action & Humanitarianism, Development, Humanity, Diplomacy, Woman and Femininity
When battlefield prowess and political manipulation are not enough to achieve peace through victory, we summon our best and brightest to negotiate an end; we celebrate peace settlements; and we give prizes, if not to victors, then to visionaries. We exalt peace as a human achievement, and justly so.
But the reality of peace is flawed. The rewards of peace are elusive for the men and women who live in the post-conflict societies of our time. Why is it so difficult to make a good peace when it is so easy to imagine?
That is the question behind Imagine: Reflections on Peace.
In this stunning collection, photographic essays make grippingly palpable the stakes during war and peace. Samantha Power, former US Ambassador to the United Nations, Justice Richard Goldstone, ICTY prosecutor, and Jonathan Powell, chief negotiator for the Northern Ireland Good Friday agreement, are joined by world-renown writers Jon Lee Anderson, Philip Gourevitch, Jon Swain, Robin Wright, Anthony Loyd and Martin Fletcher in revealing the complexities of redemption and rebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Colombia, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, and Rwanda.
We hear first-person accounts of survival and the search for inner peace that bring the big picture to the personal. With added insights from scholars and practitioners, the book offers a rare and fascinating glimpse into the unvarnished story of peace and a window into what it takes for societies and individuals to move forward after unspeakable brutality.
Imagine: Reflections on Peace is a book, exhibition, short films and educational curriculum conceived to encourage discourse and conversation around peace building and ending conflict. It is an initiative of The VII Foundation, which was established in 2001 to challenge complex social, economic, environmental and human rights issues through documentary non-fiction storytelling and education. Learn more about the project Imagine: Reflections on Peace.
Table of Contents
Preface: Out of War — Gary Knight
Introduction: Building the Tunnel — Jonathan Powell
LEBANON
1. Lebanon Then (1976, 1982) — Don McCullin
2. The Fire Under the Ashes — Robin Wright
3. Lebanon Now — Nichole Sobecki
4. I Am a Refugee, Just Like Superman — Mira Sidawi
CAMBODIA
1. Cambodia Then (1973-79, 1990-92) — Roland Neveu and Gary Knight
2. Fragile as a Flower — Jon Swain
3. Cambodia Now — Gary Knight
4. Excavating the Past, Imagining a New Life — Sophary Sophin
The Essential Influence of Women in Peace: The Liberian Example — Marie O’Reilly
RWANDA
The Burdens of Memory and Forgetting — Philip Gourevitch
Rwanda Then (1994) and Rwanda Now — Jack Picone
Butterflies Sat Next to My Heart — Dydine Umunyana
It’s in the Mind: How PTSD Affects Peace — Elizabeth D. Herman
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Bosnia and Herzegovina Then (1992-96) — Ron Haviv
God Won’t Have Forgotten — Anthony Loyd
Bosnia and Herzegovina Now — Ron Haviv
The Wolf You Feed — Elvis Garibovic
The Perils of a Peace Imposed — Pedrag Peda Kojović
No Mere Postscript: The International Criminal Courts — Justice Richard Goldstone
NORTHERN IRELAND
Peace without Harmony — Martin Fletcher
The Battle for History (1994-2019) — Gilles Peress, Text by Chris Klatell with Gilles Peress
The “Hen Party” — Monica McWilliams and Avila Kilmurray
The Narcissism of Small Differences: What the IRA Learned about Negotiation from the ANC — Padraig O’Malley
COLOMBIA
The Eternal War — Jon Lee Anderson
Colombia Between War and Peace (2016-19) — Stephen Ferry
Finding Humanity in Havana — Margarita Martinez
END NOTES
Iraq and Syria: The Space Between (2011-18) — Nicole Tung
Afterword — Samantha Power
Conflict by the Numbers
Contributors
Acknowledgements
The VII Foundation’s mission is to transform visual journalism by empowering new voices and creating stories that advocate change. In a world where beliefs and actions are increasingly out-of-sync with facts and realities, transforming visual journalism is an urgent task. With an emphasis on changing policy and educating youth, our high-profile projects narrate lived experiences, document complex problems, and seek sustainable solutions. The VII Foundation has recently produced prominent films, books, and exhibitions in multiple languages, which have been exhibited worldwide, reviewed in leading media, and taught in schools and colleges. Our current exhibition, taken from our book Imagine: Reflections on Peace, is touring Europe and the United States and has recently been exhibited at the United States Institute for Peace, the National Museum of Bosnia & Herzegovina, and the Museum of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Source: https://theviifoundation.org/about/
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