WAR OR PEACE: CROSSROADS OF HISTORY 1918 I 2018

At first glance, you might think that the subject of the centenarian anniversary of the end of the Great War is somewhat straight forward. Some people came together in Berlin to talk about history and the many stories around the war – nothing more and nothing less. This assumption would go well with the global attention that the anniversary had received in public and media, namely few. The “War or Peace?” festival in Berlin, however, presented in many ways an entirely different approach.

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Crafting a Narrative for Peace

“Everyone here is a potential game-changer” welcomed the journalist Laila Harrak from the Deutsche Welleall the participants of the “War ...

Patricia Senge

WAR OR PEACE: CROSSROADS OF HISTORY 1918 I 2018

Opening the “War or Peace?” Festival in Berlin

The opening ceremony on Wednesday night marked the official beginning of the WAR OR ...

WAR OR PEACE: CROSSROADS OF HISTORY 1918 I 2018

Reading History through Art – Reading Art through History: Lessons learned from the cradle of propaganda

During the “War or Peace?” festival Orange Magazine visited the “Propaganda vs. Civic Education” ...

WAR OR PEACE: CROSSROADS OF HISTORY 1918 I 2018

Peace for Some doesn’t always translate into Peace for All – The delicate balance between self-determination and realpolitik in the “Good Peace vs. Bad Peace” workshop at the “War or Peace?” Festival in Berlin

Ever since the outcome of the Paris Conference up to the contemporary rise ...

WAR OR PEACE: CROSSROADS OF HISTORY 1918 I 2018

Finding a Common Language: The Struggle of today’s youth in Serbia and Kosovo

Filip didn’t tell his grandparents about his plan of travelling from Serbia to ...

WAR OR PEACE: CROSSROADS OF HISTORY 1918 I 2018

“All these wars are obsolete, because there is not one true story” – An Interview with Nina Schillings

Nina Schillings from the Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung(bpb), one of the organizers of the “War or Peace?” festival, explains the ...

Patricia Senge

WAR OR PEACE: CROSSROADS OF HISTORY 1918 I 2018