Guest post by Jamie Darin Prenkert. Nominated for the 2006 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Joyeux Noël depicts the fabled “Christmas truce” of December 1914, during which British, French, and German troops on the Western Front of World War I for a brief time laid down their arms and reportedly met in No… Read more »
Guest post by Abbey Stemler and Karen E. Woody. Sweet Dreams is a documentary film set in Rwanda that follows the efforts of Rwandan women to pursue an entrepreneurial dream of opening an ice cream shop. The significance of the film is that the women featured come from different backgrounds, yet are able to instill… Read more »
Guest post by John Finch, PhD, Associate Director of the Institute for Korean Studies and Lecturer of East Asian Languages and Cultures. It would be difficult to pick a more timely movie to include in a series about the Cultural Foundations for Peace than As One (2012). In the past year, uncertainty about peace in the… Read more »
Guest post by Timothy L. Fort, PhD, JD, Eveleigh Professor of Business Ethics, and Professor of Business Law & Ethics at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. While it is true that governments negotiate peace treaties and maintain balances of power that relate to issues of war and peace, peacebuilding may also result… Read more »
