How conflict transforms lives

An event focused around the controversial and viral Kony video viewed by over 100 million in less than a month on social media.  Audience members are invited to listen to a debate  on the topic delivered by students from the University of York and to vote on the arguments for and against the video.  The event will be chaired by Ben Rawlence of Human Rights Watch.

The debate will be followed by an exhibition at which a number of societies and organisations will provide interactive stands considering the theme What is transformation in relation to conflict? to provoke one-to-one discussion and debate. There will also be a photographic exhibition of pictures taken by students from the University’s Centre for Applied Human Rights and Post-war Reconstruction and Development Unit taken on field trips to post-conflict countries, and a 3Sixty immersive visual display.

From 6pm, a public Q&A session on Global and local transformation: The impact of conflict abroad and at home will follow in the same building at which audience members will be able to quiz a panel of experts on how conflict abroad affects us here in the UK.

Admission: Entry by free ticket only from yorkfestivalofideas.com/tickets