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VIDEO: Grappling with a Violent Past, Lebanese Youth Help Preserve Truth and Memory
In Lebanon, in the absence of an overarching curriculum, young people are growing up with scant knowledge of the country’s civil war. Over the past year, ICTJ has sought to fill this knowledge gap by holding oral history workshops with university students and connecting them with the Committee of the Families of the Kidnapped and Disappeared to help digitize its archive. This video explores the project and the perspectives of the students and others involved.