The Space Between Us
This week I filmed feminist activist, researcher and writer Cynthia Cockburn. Cynthia and I are making a film based on her book The Space Between Us: Negotiating Gender and National Identities in Conflict.
In the 1990s, during the height of the Bosnian War, Cynthia asked herself, how do we make peace? How is peace actually created in situations of conflict and war? She found out about three remarkable women’s peace projects in Bosnia/Herzegovina, Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland, and she went to visit them, during the time that all three regions were rife with conflict. Cynthia wanted to learn how these women related to each other and traversed the space between them with words instead of bullets. How did they make democracy out of difference? Cynthia raised funds for the women from the three regions to come together, at their request, to meet each other and learn from one another, and helped to arrange subsequent exchange visits between them.
Cynthia is soon going back to those countries to seek out the women she worked with to ask them what’s happened to those conflicts, and to the struggle for peace, since then? Has the violence diminished, or does it continue? And how safe is the space between them now?
The film will feature a stunning collection of Cynthia’s black and white photographs from Bosnia/Herzegovina, Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland.
If you are interested in seeing the film or would like to find out more, please contact me [email protected].
To find out more about Cynthia and her work, click on the following link: http://www.cynthiacockburn.org/
This week I filmed feminist activist, researcher and writer Cynthia Cockburn. Cynthia and I are making a film based on her book The Space Between Us: Negotiating Gender and National Identities in Conflict.
In the 1990s, during the height of the Bosnian War, Cynthia asked herself, how do we make peace? How is peace actually created in situations of conflict and war? She found out about three remarkable women’s peace projects in Bosnia/Herzegovina, Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland, and she went to visit them, during the time that all three regions were rife with conflict. Cynthia wanted to learn how these women related to each other and traversed the space between them with words instead of bullets. How did they make democracy out of difference? Cynthia raised funds for the women from the three regions to come together, at their request, to meet each other and learn from one another, and helped to arrange subsequent exchange visits between them.
Cynthia is soon going back to those countries to seek out the women she worked with to ask them what’s happened to those conflicts, and to the struggle for peace, since then? Has the violence diminished, or does it continue? And how safe is the space between them now?
The film will feature a stunning collection of Cynthia’s black and white photographs from Bosnia/Herzegovina, Israel/Palestine and Northern Ireland.
If you are interested in seeing the film or would like to find out more, please contact me [email protected].
To find out more about Cynthia and her work, click on the following link: http://www.cynthiacockburn.org/
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