Kids' Guernica in Middle East

Kids' Guernica actions in the Middle East

The Middle East experienced many forms of hardships since 1945 and this often without any real understanding of the Western countries for what was happening there. Or maybe they did not wish to know exactly since they preferred to do business but not ask many questions. And always there were a variety of interventions which left that part of the world again speechless due to violent transformations having a higher priority than a peaceful evolution in the name of democractic emancipation.

To explain this through Kids' Guernica murals gives a chance to alter this kind of historical arrogance. Staying in contact with people who enter with children a collaborative learning process may be a start to take note of other things. As the Lebanese mural indicates, there is a culture of vitality and of joy; but at the same time, there is war and death. Iman Nouri gave it a most appropriate term: 'schizophrenia of peace'. That reality needs to be lived in order to find ways to overcome this split into here the music bars with the youth dancing happily late into night while nearby bombs go off and yet another violent interventions leaves more than just scars.

HF 23.10.2011

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