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How photography can build peace and justice in war-torn communities

  • Written by Pamina Firchow, Associate Professor of Coexistence and Conflict, Brandeis University
imageProject citizen-photographers from Las Cruces, Colombia.Edwin Cubillos Rodriguez, CC BY-ND

It’s not easy for most people to think about what peace and justice mean to them, or how to express it. But that’s what we ask people in war-torn communities to do, all around the world.

One place we did this is in Colombia, a country now testing...

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