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Youth Radio Magwi Project - FM 92.5
Dominik Lehnert | Overcoming Conflict | 05:11 | In 11th place
This movie gives a brief overview on the Rural Youth's Voices Project, a Community Based Youth Radio Station and Music Production Studio in Magwi, South Sudan. The youth in Magwi was particularly in need of hopeful future prospects. Raised in an era of war and violence, they had limited access to education and expertise. The youth was lacking the opportunities to project their views, their exp. ... More
Intended Consequences: Valentine
Jonathan Torgovnik | Overcoming Conflict | 02:23 | In 12th place
In 1994, in the East African nation of Rwanda, one million ethnic Tutsi people were slaughtered, in a genocide committed by their Hutu countrymen. But the scars left by these murderous militiamen go well beyond the numbers of the dead: they live on, in the lives of the women they held captive, raped - and left pregnant. Intended Consequences tells the stories of some of these women, victims of ? ... More
YOUTH ZONES - Lebanon
Lisa Russell | Overcoming Conflict | 04:15 | In 13th place
In conflicts and natural disasters around the world, young people, at a crucial stage of their development, are faced with numerous challenges and difficulties. Emergencies often steal their adolescence and force them to undertake adult responsibilities. The structures and institutions that should guarantee their secure, peaceful development - schools, family, community and health centers - have o ... More
The People of Bukit Lawang
Paul Redman | Overcoming Conflict | 05:00 | In 14th place
The film is based in Bukit Lawang, where devastating floods caused over 239 deaths in 2003. The flooding was attributed to illegal logging in the surrounding Gunung Leuser National Park. Since the floods, this village community has been involved in voluntary forest governance enforcement schemes in an attempt to curb illegal logging in the National Park. The community has also started to recogni. ... More