Yalla Peace has been an ongoing two-layer project (Peace Puzzle 2011-2014 and Yalla Peace 2014- ) carried out by War Child Holland (WCH). The overall objective of the project was to provide Syrian and Lebanese students with resources and grants to initiate their own “peace action plans” and to spread their knowledge in dealing with past and present-day conflict among their communities. The project targeted approximately 10 public and private schools hosting Lebanese and Syrian students in Mount Lebanon, Beirut and the North. In general, it focused on the Lebanese-Syrian and Lebanese-Lebanese relationships among students. It aimed to raise awareness and build communities’ capacities in “conflict prevention” through several developed tools and activities. One of these activities was a theatre and performance training in collaboration with Zoukak (Association of Artists). WCH trained students to collect narratives and testimonies about the Lebanese civil war experiences, which then were handed over to Zoukak to use them in editing play scripts and to present it to the public. The projects also aimed to support and fund one of the very few existing national and multi-sectarian scouts, belonging to the Ministry of Education.

The Atlas Group is a project established by Walid Raad in 1999 to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon. One of our aims with this project is to locate, preserve, study, and produce audio, visual, literary and other artifacts that shed light on the contemporary history of Lebanon

A collection of interviews conducted with various (former) school principals during the civil war period of Lebanon. The interviews elaborate on the measures these school principals, took and the decisions they made to keep their schools open during the civil war.

This oral history project is led by Professor Slim with her students to collect the oral histories of people from all parts of Lebanon who share stories of support and solidarity during the Lebanese civil war years. Many of these stories involve people in need during the war and those who opened their homes to them. This project shows that even during the war and violent times, many citizens helped each other, based on beautiful stories that Slim heard from individuals who were very active on an individual level or through non-governmental organizations and played a key role in peacemaking during the war. This project shows that even during the war and violent times, many citizens helped each other, based on beautiful stories that Slim heard from individuals who were very active on an individual level or through non-governmental organizations and played a key role in peacemaking during the war. They helped people in need on many levels, opened their houses to others during the war, and received Lebanese from regions affected by the war.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s ‘Peace Building Project’ (2006-2011) dealt with peace building education, capacity building and conflict assessment. UNDP started working on history education with the Ministry of Education by organizing a round table discussion with historians and experts. In addition, UNDP has been in the process of testing a training toolbox on peace building targeting a number of schoolteachers in different selected districts in Lebanon. This project is implemented in partnership with the Center for Active Citizenship. The peace education project is carried out in partnership with Beyond Development and Reform, with local actors such as municipalities and communities, media, and civil society organizations. Different tools including capacity building are used to address conflict in Lebanon and different groups are supported in ‘transforming the culture of violence.’ UNDP works in 45 neighbourhoods (including Wadi Khaled, Akar, Akroum, Bekaa, Dahiyeh, Tyre, Sarafand, Burj Elshmali, Shebaa and Hebriyeh) to manage local conflicts and to achieve cohesion strategies.

As part of its Peace Building Project, UNDP worked in collaboration with UMAM Documentation & Research (UMAM D&R) on the project ‘The Bus Takes the Podium,’ in which a bus was equipped with UMAM D&R’s electronic archive on the memory of the war. The bus toured for one year in selected villages across Lebanon covered by TV and social media follow-up. UNDP and UMAM D&R also provided a youth group with a grant to produce a documentary on the issue of the missing and disappeared.

In collaboration with journalists, UNDP has been producing news supplements every three months under the title Molhaq Mashroua’ Bina’ Al-Salam and publishes them along prominent newspapers including An-Nahar. Around 2000 copies of every news supplement are distributed to municipalities, universities, organizations, and selected individuals across the country. UNDP also produced a Conflict Map, which aims at helping actors in the response efforts to the Syrian crisis better understanding conflicts and was published on daleel-madani.org. Since 2013, UNDP has been facilitating with a group of NGOs a platform bringing together main actors working on peace building, which has led to the campaign ‘Truth and Reconciliation.’ UNDP has also been providing support and capacity building to ‘Fighters for Peace’.United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s ‘Peace Building Project’ (2006-2011) dealt with peace building education, capacity building and conflict assessment. UNDP started working on history education with the Ministry of Education by organizing a round table discussion with historians and experts. In addition, UNDP has been in the process of testing a training toolbox on peace building targeting a number of schoolteachers in different selected districts in Lebanon. This project is implemented in partnership with the Center for Active Citizenship. The peace education project is carried out in partnership with Beyond Development and Reform, with local actors such as municipalities and communities, media, and civil society organizations. Different tools including capacity building are used to address conflict in Lebanon and different groups are supported in ‘transforming the culture of violence.’ UNDP works in 45 neighbourhoods (including Wadi Khaled, Akar, Akroum, Bekaa, Dahiyeh, Tyre, Sarafand, Burj Elshmali, Shebaa and Hebriyeh) to manage local conflicts and to achieve cohesion strategies.

Series of short films concerning the Lebanese Civil War, including the account of a Palestinian man who was on the bus that was attacked April 1975 and considered the opening salvo of the war. The films also include original footage of the siege Tal El Zaatar 1976, a kidnapping in 1985 and the discovery of Alec Collett's (who is this?) body. The goal was to provide information about the war for public interest and research interest. Is this a documentary? Then I would add “documentary” in the title

Between 2012 and 2013, UMAM Documentation and Research (UMAM D&R) worked in collaboration with the Lebanese Political Detainees in Syrian Prisons (LPDS) on a series of events in support of the detainees. It included round table discussions and live performances such as ‘The Road to Damascus’ conducted in Beirut and Tripoli and ‘One Day in Hell’ which dealt with prisoners re-enacting the morning hours of their experiences with prison guards. The latter was performed in five different cities in Germany. In the same year, UMAM D&R organized a round table discussion on the issue of the missing and forcibly disappeared which targeted the Committee of Families of the Kidnapped and Disappeared in Lebanon, Support for Lebanese in Detention Centres (SOLIDE), LPDS, and Legal Agenda.

A bus and its replicas is a project combing a collection of silk screens that Houssam Bokeili began in 2004; it attempts to makes sense of the figure of "the bus" in the artist's post-war memories. By choosing the medium of seriogrophy or silk screen, a technique of mechanical reproduction, the artist raises questions about representations and memory. What is the relationship between representations of his childhood school-bus and memorializations of the Ain el-Remmaneh bus? With the help of UMAM Documentation & Research, A bus and its replicas... offers a moving visual response to this question.

In 2010, UMAM Documentation and Research (UMAM D&R) worked on its database/archive project ‘Memory at Work,’ which is an online database/platform dedicated to depict the events and memories of the war. This database has been deployed in discussions between participants in workshops on the way how the present and past could be connected, and has been used in the project ‘Bus and its Replicas’ in collaboration with UNDP. The ‘Bus and its Replicas’ was an exhibition by Houssam Boukeili that raised questions about representation and memory. The idea of the latter project was to create a mobile electronic library for the memory of the war that targets schools and the mass in general across the country. This project is now expanding at the regional level to places like Tunis. UMAM D&R has been preparing to launch Memory at Work Syria with Syrian Itana Documentation and Research.

Between 2008 and 2009, UMAM Documentation and Research (UMAM D&R) organized an event under the title ‘What is to be Done?’ which included a series of film screenings, workshops and exhibitions, most notably ‘The Missing’ exhibition, on which a publication was produced. It was conducted at UNESCO in Beirut and involved the collection of hundreds of photos of missing individuals, each associated with a name, the date of birth, and the year he/she disappeared. The exhibition was presented across the country and targeted the mass in general. During the process, researchers of UMAM D&R conducted interviews with many families of the missing and disappeared. Later, this database was handed over to the ICRC who initiated a process of database collection of the missing. The event also included 'The Memorials' exhibition and a series of film screenings under the title ‘Confronting Memories,’ which were used to prompt debate and discussion, most notably discussions between Amal Movement and Palestinians about the war of the camps.