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By Hellen Yemane

Two days ago, on September 21 it was the international day of peace. This day was established by the United Nations in 1981 to promote peace and bring awareness to world wars. Its purpose is to dedicate a day of nonviolence and peacefulness. Personally, I found out about this day last year around this time. I decided then that I wanted to create a poser to promote global awareness towards peace. I started off thinking of nations that are in ongoing conflict and have been for an extensive period. I immediately thought of the conflict between Israel and Palestine. To me, the dispute between Israel and Palestine has gone on for as long as I can remember and has always been in the center of world conflicts. For my poster design I decided to do a set of three posters, each poster have the word ‘peace’ written in the center of a white and plain background. The writings I did were in Hebrew, Arabic and English. For each type I had put the international peace symbol as background in colors of red, orange, green and blue. Making these was no big deal, however, I for some reason felt like this was one way of encouraging a course towards strengthening the idea of peace one day.