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Resistance, solidarity and peacebuilding

Collective action, reconciliation and lasting peace.

Posed photograph of Askari soldiers serving German colonial forces in East Africa, 1906.Colonial war

Maji Maji war and repression

An anti-colonial uprising met by the destruction of villages, crops and livelihoods.

Surviving members of the Reni group at Chipko’s thirtieth-anniversary gathering in 2004.Conservation milestone

The Chipko forest-protection movement

Defending forests through community mobilisation and nonviolent resistance.

Nelson Mandela in Washington, DC, in October 1994; a portrait from the election year, not a polling-day photograph.Constitutional milestone

South Africa's first democratic election

Opening national voting to citizens of all races after apartheid.

A 1998 Yes campaign poster for the Belfast Agreement, photographed in a 2010 exhibition at the Linen Hall Library.Constitutional milestone

The Belfast / Good Friday Agreement

Creating a negotiated framework for power-sharing and peace in Northern Ireland.

Gandhi and fellow marchers during the Salt March in March 1930.Freedom and rights

The Salt March

Turning a tax on an everyday necessity into a mass challenge to colonial rule.

Women demonstrating for peace in Liberia.Peace and resistance

Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace

Bringing Christian and Muslim women together to press for an end to war.

Portrait of Henry Dunant, whose humanitarian campaign helped lead to the convention.Humanitarian history

The first Geneva Convention

Establishing treaty protections for wounded soldiers and medical assistance.

A plenary session at the Bandung Conference in 1955.International conference

Bandung Conference

Asian and African states asserting a shared voice against colonialism and domination.

A map of Bougainville and Buka; geographical context for the peace agreement.Peace agreement

Bougainville Peace Agreement

A negotiated framework combining autonomy, weapons disposal and a future referendum.

A screen showing the signing of the initial peace accord in Cartagena on 26 September 2016; the revised final agreement followed in November.Peace agreement

Colombia's government–FARC peace agreement

A negotiated attempt to end the war between the Colombian government and the FARC.

A demonstration in Plaza de Mayo in December 1982 demanding answers about the disappeared.Human rights movement

Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Mothers publicly demanding answers about people disappeared by Argentina's dictatorship.