LAH aims at encouraging continuous learning for different age groups as a way to build learners’ critical thinking, shape their personalities and develop a sense of individual and collective responsibility. Alongside working on several projects that aim to foster history teaching, on 18 – 19 June 2013, LAH organized a series of presentations on approaches to “Teaching and learning the civil war”. LAH partnered with the Centre for Lebanese Studies, the Finnish Institute in the Middle East, the Open Society and the Center for Arab and Middle East Studies at American University Beirut. The presentations took place at the American University of Beirut and were attended by 90 history teachers, activists, academics, and researchers.

The Lebanese Association for History (LAH) is a group of educationalists, history teachers, and activists who work together to contribute to the development of disciplinary approaches to History education in Lebanon. LAH promotes the learning and teaching of history as a discipline in Lebanon, raises public awareness about the importance of history and ensures that history teaching becomes more recognized by society and more engaging to learners with a focus on historical concepts.

The project “Youth Initiators of Change – Shabab Mobadiroun lel-Taghyir” produced a presentation and a documentary Rasa’el Jiran(Letters Between Neighbours) based on recorded testimonies, collected by students from Christians who fledMazra’t Al-Choufduring the civil war, and their Druze former neighbours still living in the same village. The documentary sought to provide a shared space of communication and reconciliation between both communities who have been separated during the war, expressing now both their hope for return and living together. The students also produced different songs and short movies used in cultural events as well as a graffiti campaigns advocating for non-violence and non-sectarianism.

Youth Initiators of Change was organized between 2013 and 2014 in Tripoli, Beirut and Chouf. It comprised of a series of capacity development activities on “non-violence, non-sectarianism and citizenship”, targeting over 200 students. These activities also included strategic planning for campaigns and interactive trainings addressing the civil war.

The movie tells the story of a 10-year-old boy that was separated from his family due to a bomb shell hitting their home. It pictures how the boy manages to get his passport and airline ticket and make his way to the airport to travel to Sweden to live with his grandparents.

In April 2015, on the 40th anniversary of the Lebanese Civil War, Issam Fares Institute at the American University of Beirut (AUB) organised the symposium “A Quarter Century after the End of the Civil War, Did We Turn the Page?”. It hosted representatives of research centres and NGOs including the Committee of the Families of the Kidnapped and Disappeared in Lebanon. The dialogue highlighted major challenges to dealing with the legacy of civil violence in Lebanon including the issue of the missing, memory and history education. The event was organised in collaboration with Asfari Institute at AUB, the International Centre for Transitional Justice and the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Media Studies at the AUB.

This is a report that provides recommendations, developed by a consortium of over 20 NGOs and published in 2014, targeting the state authorities. In the report, they ask for a comprehensive set of political, legal, administrative, and social measures or reforms specifically designed to address the legacy of the 1975–1990 war in Lebanon and the resulting ongoing cycle of political violence. The recommendations were framed by the foundational approaches of transitional justice, namely truth-seeking, reparation, accountability and institutional reform. They are explained and elaborated on in the following four publications: 'Confronting the Legacy of Political Violence in Lebanon: An Agenda for Change', 'Lebanon's Legacy of Political Violence', 'Failing to Deal with the Past, What Cost for Lebanon?', and 'How People talk about the Lebanon Wars: A study of the Perceptions and Expectations in Greater Beirut'. The consortium came together in December 2015 to reflect together on the implementation of the recommendations.

The Draft Law for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared Persons was the result of a joint collaboration since 2010 between the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and a network of NGOs including the Committee of Families of the Kidnapped and Disappeared in Lebanon (CFKDL), Support of the Lebanese in Detention and Exile (SOLIDE), Legal Agenda and other lawyers and public officials. ICTJ and Friedrich Ebert Foundation organized a trip to Bosnia for a delegation of the civil society, including families of the disappeared in Lebanon, SOLIDE, lawyers, judges and two Members of the parliament (MPs), to see the work of the Institute of the Missing. Subsequently, ICTJ worked with CFKDL, SOLIDE and lawyer Nizar Saghiyeh to produce a draft law intended to find a legal framework to address the issue of the disappeared. The draft was produced and submitted to the parliament in April 2014 through two MPs. The project also led to the publication of a strategic litigation report on the issue of disappearance by lawyer Nizar Saghiyeh. The Report "The Missing in Lebanon Inputs on the Establishment of the Independent National Commission for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared in Lebanon" published in January 2016 provides expert financial and operational analysis and information to help facilitate the establishment of an Independent National Commission for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared in Lebanon, as envisaged in a draft consolidated bill now before the Lebanese Parliament. The study is firmly based on the Lebanese context.

In 2015, ICTJ organised a youth photo contest to raise awareness about the importance of truth seeking and truth telling about people’s experiences of the war and post-war violence. The photo contest, titled, “THE WAR AS I SEE IT”, is aimed at young people in Lebanon, to encourage them to explore how they understand the war, as part of the past and the present. Participants aged 15 to 25 were invited to submit a photo of an object, landscape, portrait, or site that in their opinion represents, or speaks to, the Lebanese civil war, along with a description and a short biography. The winning photographs were part of a traveling exhibition (Beirut, Deir el Qamar) intended to spark collective reflection on the images, their meaning and the truth seeking about the war.

A documentary directed by Carole Mansour about the experiences of students who worked on this project along testimonies about everyday life during the war, was produced and screened in several places including universities such as University Saint-Joseph, the American University of Beirut, the Lebanese American University and Haigazian University.