The International Center for transitional Justice and the Committee of the Families of the Kidnapped and Disappeared in Lebanon are pleased to invite you to the signing of "Windmills of Our Hearts", a new book of short stories by 15 women relatives of the missing and forcibly disappeared in Lebanon.
The event will take place on Thursday 1 June at Dar El Wardieh, Hamra, Beirut, between 4 and 8pm.
The Wide Awake Art Contest, an open call to Lebanese and Tunisian artists as well as artists living in Lebanon or Tunisia to explore the theme “The Sound of Dissent.” The contest will showcase works by those who are documenting and memorializing their communities’ stories in times of instability, resistance, and change.
In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the end of the Lebanese civil war, the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) is holding a youth photo contest to raise awareness about the importance of truth seeking and truth telling about people’s experiences of the war and post-war violence.The contest will run from October 23 to November 30, 2015.
Participants aged 15 to 25 are invited to submit a photo of an object, landscape, portrait, or site that in their opinion represents, or speaks to, the Lebanese civil war, along with a description and a short biography.
The three best...
The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and a consortium of civil society organizations, in partnership with the European Union (EU) and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, invite you to a press conference to launch the Recommendations on “Confronting the Legacy of Political Violence in Lebanon: An Agenda for Change” on Monday, October 20, 2014, from 9:00 am to 17:00 pm at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Hamra.
The press conference will be followed by a roundtable discussing the recommendations for necessary and practical measures to address past political violence and end impunity in...
