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A new film launched on Thursday (24 May) co-curated by a University of Manchester lecturer and shown at the prestigious Imperial War Museum in London, is to argue that winning the peace is just as important as winning the war. Tim Jacoby, who is a senior lecturer in conflict studies, says more people should be aware that the violence did not stop after the signing of ceasefire agreements in Iraq, Northern Ireland, Sierra Leone, El Salvador and Kosovo. Part of the Cultural Olympiad, the film is inspired by an Olympic Games 'Truce', created in the ninth century BC to enable athletes from Greece's warring cities to travel and compete in safety. Highlights of the film include extracts from s with former prisoners Seanna Walsh of the IRA and Jackie McDonald of the UDA, both now involved in Northern Irish peace initiatives. Courtny Edwards, who worked with a NGO health service in displaced persons' camps following civil war in Sierra Leone before completing a Masters degree at the University's Institute for Development Policy and Management is in the film. Professor Tony Redmond from The University of Manchester, who led aid teams in Kosovo following NATO attacks in 1999 also speaks. The stories draw attention to the notion of truce as an international convention, and the efforts of individuals to broker or to break permanent peace.
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