Ara Pacis Initiative - Consiglio per la Dignità, il Perdono, la Giustizia e la Riconciliazione

Ara Pacis Initiative

Rome, Protomoteca del Campidoglio, April 20th 2010

Task Force: Arts, Media and Peace

Participants: Donna Hicks, Robi Damelin, Manuela Dviri, Ron Fremder, Nicoletta Gaida

Summary:

• Religious leaders should publicize messages of peace
• Initiatives must be taken to create emotional breakthroughs which will cause extension of dignity and  surprise and shock people into attention and action, especially in conflict regions - do this by honoring the dignity of the enemy in a way that is shocking i.e. Sadat's visit to Jerusalem
• Fashion weeks dedicated to awareness raising on the themes of dignity forgiveness and reconciliation; competition for designers to create t-shirts on the theme and  world leaders sign them;
• Forgiveness perfume advertizing campaigns on the theme, like Oliviero Toscani's passport for "citizens of the world" and all this means.  a world wide social network---citizens of the world holding a passport and agreeing on a fundamental principle:  the right of every human being to live with dignity
• Facebook pages for each task force
• Steven Spielberg righteous foundation to contact in order to make a film on the stories of victims and perpetrators --- possible contact with Paradigm (producer of desperate housewives)
• Forbes plan for peace:  raise money for human dimension of peace from top names on Forbes list of rich people audiovisual in order to promote understanding and fight prejudice