Life after war: Dreams, Reality and Perspectives on Human Rights

Duration of the project
One year, starting May 2007

Funding partner
The World Bank

Description
"Life after war: Dreams, Reality and Perspectives on Human Rights" is a small documentary project intending to depict how young people and women living in South Lebanon and whose lives were undeniably shattered by the July/August war, perceive, understand and reinterpret the values of Human Rights in general and in the light of the recent events.

This short documentary that will also put in perspective some of the major challenges South Lebanon is facing through the portraits of young people and women, is to be used as an awareness raising tool intended to the future elites of the Lebanese society: university students. Partly based on a pair to pair approach, the core idea behind this project is to raise awareness on Human Rights and gender issues, amongst students through an identification process with people who do not enjoy the same privileged life perspectives.

Rich of a solid experience in conveying Human Rights values that have outreached numerous beneficiaries since 2004 and having direct access to them, Amel Association would like to cease the opportunity to share this experience with a larger public through the making and diffusing of this documentary project.

More importantly, this project will also contribute to evaluate the actual impact of Human Rights, Democracy and Inter Community Dialogue awareness raising programs in the light of socio economic realities of life in South Lebanon. In other words, the documentary will search to answer the question: to which extent the spreading of Human Rights values do contribute to bring about change in the lives of people, in the context of an unstable country like Lebanon?