The Peace Agency is a documentary by Spotted Frog Productions featuring a woman's struggles in post-conflict zone of Poso, Indonesia. Lian Gogali is teaching female survivors of nearly a decade of communal violence how to transform themselves into agents of peace for their families and communities.
Many schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina still reflect the ethnic tensions that triggered the 43-month siege of Sarajevo in the mid-1990s. During that time, schools were destroyed and classes were held in basements and shelters. Today, some Bosnian schools house ‘two schools under one roof,’ with separate curricula for different ethnic groups.
In the past two decades, Saudi Arabia realised that it was becoming a breeding-ground for young terrorists. 15 of the 19 hijackers involved in the 9/11 attacks were Saudi citizens – and since then terror groups have become active on home soil. The Saudis have had to think of creative ways to defuse the threat.
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Phyllis Rodriguez and Aicha el-Wafi have a powerful friendship born of unthinkable loss. Rodriguez' son was killed in the World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001; el-Wafi's son Zacarias Moussaoui was convicted of a role in those attacks and is serving a life sentence. In hoping to find peace, these two moms have come to understand and respect one another.
Raj Panjabi tells the story of his evacuation from Liberia, his return to find the destruction of his homeland and the struggle for health care in the post-conflict world.
The scale of the violence in the Congo can make people into victims and victims into mere numbers. "Pushing the Elephant" a new documentary, released by Women Make Movies, puts a human face on the impact of the conflict.
