Event Details
'Corte de leña / Chopping wood', Anonymous. (Photo: Martin Melaugh) |
| ‘storybook’ launch: | طبعة الطبيعة | Nature Footprints: Community Stories of Climate, Conflict, and Peace |
| Description: | Nature Footprints is a collaboration between the Environmental Peacebuilding Association (EnPAx) and the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform-led Community of Practice on Environment, Climate, Conflict, and Peace (ECCP).
As part of COP28, the 28th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Nature Footprints have launched a multimedia ‘storybook’. Using art as a platform for reflection, testimony, and conversation, this ‘storybook’ features community stories of climate, conflict and peace. It emphasises the critical need to put issues of peace and conflict in the spotlight during climate change negotiations and to give voice to communities directly affected by climate-related conflict.
Images of four Chilean arpilleras from Conflict Textiles collection are included in this publication.
Weblinks:
Multimedia 'storybook' طبعة الطبيعة | Nature Footprints: Community Stories of Climate, Conflict, and Peace (Conflict Textiles, p.44)
Conflict Textiles, Chapter 4 (4th entry on page)
Nature Footprints - gallery
“The Path to Peace” - a collaborative music video. |
| Commissioned by: | Nature Footprints |
| Date(s): | 30th November 2023 - 12th December 2023 |
| Venue: | online and Expo City, Dubai
United Arab Emirates |
| Curator: | Roberta Bacic and Conflict Textiles team |
| Facilitator: | Lynn Finnegan, Becca Farnum and Annika Erickson-Pearson; Nature Footprints |
| Outcome: | Through textile language these four Chilean arpilleras highlight collective action, resilience, and hope amid ongoing violence and repression. Corte de leña / Chopping wood depicts the deforestation, environmental destruction and the looming fuel crisis from the 1980s. Vida campestre bucólica / Bucolic Country Life is a reminder that we must preserve memories and practices of healthy human-nature relationships, in order to support peacebuilding and healing. Corte de agua / Water cut showcases creativity, determination and protest. Olla Común 2 / Soup Kitchen 2 depicts the hunger and poverty wrought by conflict and social injustice during the Pinochet era – as well as the resilience and fortitude demonstrated by those affected.
The online ‘storybook’ remaining available (open-access and free) online for the foreseeable future ensures that these testimonies, from several decades, reach a wide audience and inspire continued collective action. |
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