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Views of Peace: Create Images!Is peace the absence of war - or is it the other way around?
Today, war and peace both wear helmets - but in different colors.
Even peace researchers mainly broach the issues of war and conflict.
At the same time, all over the world, military and police missions, executive rather than legislative measures become a matter of course - special commissions, states of emergency, wars.
War, in this logic, belongs to the realm of pragmatism, the sense of reality and the knowledge of human nature, while peace seems utopian, naive, something for children and others who do not understand the real world.
This differentiation has it's highly unpeaceful reasons and interests; it is by no means self-evident.
To keep it up in our conceptions and representations is to take part in the war-disposed peacelessness.
How do images, representations, pictures, or signs look that can bestow views of peace with the power to overcome these fixations and reductions?
How can producers of images from different fields like design, art, science, and the media, use their expressive powers to develop the political and social impact of views of peace?
There are many, too many reasons for this appeal.
The question of peace can not be pacified with the absence of war or peace be exploited as a reason for war.
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