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| Peace women from across the globe, now in JU | | | Munish Gupta
Jammu | Nov 28
The three day long exhibition-cum-film festival with a vision to promote peace began in University of Jammu. The main attraction of the display included the exhibition of photographs of 1000 Peace Women and a bunch of several documentaries to be screened during the course of next two days.
The exhibition has been dedicated to these one thousand women from more than 150 countries who were nominated together for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, for the extraordinary work on peace they were doing in different parts of the world. This initiative was led by what was called the 1000 Peace Women project. This project began in 2003, with the hope that 100 years after Bertha von Suttner - the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905, more and more women would be honored for their efforts, determination, courage and belief in peace, asserted Anchal Kapur, team leader Kriti Team, which organized the exhibition.
She also added that Strong, assertive, and without heed for their own safety, these women have assumed responsibility for their village, their slum, their region, their country, and for other human beings.
Another member of the Kriti told that The 1000th woman is 'Anonyma', a tribute to all the nameless women whose work has been overlooked, and for those endangered women who set things into motion and bring about change but who must remain nameless.
The exhibition was conceptualized in a way that the most-essential information about each Peace Woman is presented in a way that is intimate, powerful and practical to transport and set up. So, the exhibition presents each Peace Woman on a large A5 size postcard, to create a face-to-face encounter for its audience. Each postcard has a photograph of the Peace Woman along with a quote by her on one side, and a brief profile on her on the other side.
The organizers asserted that exhibition could be used to reach out to the public, link with other networks or groups, and raise questions about what peace and peace building means; to reveal the different ways women are building peace in different corners of the world; and to build popular support for women's roles as peace builders. Along with the Exhibition, there is also a Peace Women Book and an interactive website, documenting the lives and work of these Peace Women.
‘On the Film screening part, a total of four documentary films including Lake of Despair, Ribbons for Peace, Redefining Peace and A Night of Prophecy were screened on the inaugural day highlighting the plights of people from around the globe due to violent conditions prevailing there. Prof Amitabh Mattoo, Vice Chancellor, University of Jammu inaugurated the Festival this morning at Gen Zorawar Singh Auditorium Complex.
Dr Meenakshi Kilam, Convener IRC, Prof B P S Sehgal, Prof Deshbandhu, Dr Pritam Singh etc were also present on the occasion.
…In Box…
Audience missing
‘The show was on but the audience was missing’. This is how one could best describe the scene inside the Zorawar Singh auditorium on Wednesday afternoon.
Projected as one of the high profile events for which the Jammu university authorities had labored hard before organizing a special press conference to spread awareness yet when the festival went underway the authorities failed to gather enough numbers to save the day and faced an embarrassment.
Blank faces among organizers of the event said it all as they kept searching for people trickling inside the auditorium.
A senior University official when contacted said, it appears that students in the campus were occupied with some thing important and did not turn up to watch movies. Another reason attributed by the University official was lack of interest on the part of students in the film titles. Students may not be willing to watch the films we are showcasing during the film festival, he said. |
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