Thought up by the French cartoonist Plantu, Cartooning for Peace is an initiative born on 16 October 2006 at UN headquarters in New York. A two-day conference organised by Kofi Annan, the then Secretary General of the United Nations, brought together the twelve best-known political cartoonists in the world for "unlearning intolerance".
An exhibition was staged at the same time as the meeting.
A movement was born!
Learning materials for use with primary and secondary schoolchildren accompany some of our exhibitions.
The youngest students can thus widen their overall understanding of the exhibitions and be made aware of some of the main themes of the Cartooning for Peace action.
The Caen Memorial has elected to support Cartooning for Peace and is presenting Opinion Spots, an audacious exhibition of a selection of cartoons from all five continents which recalls the importance of maintaining the utmost vigilance of opinion and judgement in an increasingly complex and threatened world.
Swiss cartoonist Patrick Chappatte received the Thomas Nast award by The Overseas Press Club of America in New-York.
Cartooning for Peace pay tribute to the Arab revolutions with the album "DĂ©gage!" (Get out!). 16 international cartoonists took part in the project, through cartoons and comics to deal with these events.
“Agricultural Europe’s anger” : the new page “let me draw you a cartoon” is available in Le Monde edition of Thursday, November, 28th.
Laurence Girard wrote this article, illustrated by the cartoonists Chappatte (Switzerland), Gab (France), Antonio (Portugal), Nono (France) et Nicolas Vadot (Belgium) !
Since August, 29, The “Let me draw a cartoon” page is published in Le Monde Thursday edition.
From December 1 to 8, during the Sephardic Cultural Season, a week of debates, meetings and cultural program is organized in Montreal. Cartooning for Peace joins these “Days for Peace” on this occasion and presents the roading exhibition “Cartooning for Peace / Dessin pour la Paix” at Segal Centre for Performing Arts.
Save the date: Sunday, 1 December from 18:00 to 19:30 – Conference “Should we laugh at everything ?”
With CFP Cartoonists : Plantu (France) Kichka (Israel), Bado (Canada) and Khalil Abu Arrafeh (Palestine).
“Culture & Power”
Avignon (France)- From November, 21st  to 23rd 2013
This 2013 edition of the Forum d’Avignon is focused on the links between power and culture. What is at stake? Replace culture at the heart of politics. The Forum d’Avignon calls for revitalizing cultural diversity as the foundation of democratic debate and springboard for new public policies.
Since 2012 , CFP cartoonists participate and sketch the Forum d’Avignon debates!
Exhibition “SOS, Cartoons take on water”
Pavillon de l’eau (Paris) – From November, 19th  to March, 3rd, 2014
In partnership with the association Cartooning for Peace, Eau de Paris exhibits to the Pavillon de l’eau eighty editorial cartoons about environmental and water themes. The exhibition will be divided into 5 parts : water pollution, ecosystems in danger, bathing, oil and radioactivity.
SAVE THE DATE!
Tuesday, November 19th at 7:00 pm: an evening debate about the place of the environment in the media and cartoons, hosted by Arte international reporter, Vladimir Vasak, will launch the exhibition.
The French Institute of Tunisia and Cartooning for Peace organize a meeting of Cartoonists from Maghreb on October, 28 and 29. BAKI (Algeria), Chedly BELKHAMSA (Tunisia), Lotfi BEN SASSI (Tunisia), DLOG (Tunisia), Nidhal GHARIANI (Tunisia), Damien GLEZ (Burkina Faso), Gueddar (Morocco), Nadia KHIARI (Tunisia), Pierre Kroll (Belgium), Tawfiq OMRANE (Tunisia), PLANTU (France), Nizar Ali SIALA (Libya) and SLIM (Algeria) will be presents.
“American Shutdown boomerang effect” : the new page “let me draw you a cartoon” is available in Le Monde edition of Thursday, October, 17th.
An excellent article written by Philippe Bernard and Cagle and Ed Hall (USA), Chappatte and Mix & Remix (Switzerland) and Joep Bertrams cartoons.
Since August, 29, The “Let me draw a cartoon” page is published in Le Monde Thursday edition.
Have a look at the pages on calameo :
Assembly and demonstration by world cartoonists in support of Akram Raslan
05.10.2013, in St Just Le Martel (France)
On 2 October 2012, Syrian cartoonist Akram Raslan was arrested by Syrian military intelligence , while he was at the government newspaper Al-Fida’a building in Hama. Akram Raslan (born 1974) began to draw caricatures of President Bashar Al- Assad in 2011, that he posted on social networks and Al -Jazeera site. Meanwhile, he was still living in Syria.
On July 26, Akram Raslan and other prisoners of conscience including journalists, artists, singers and other intellectuals were secretly put on trial with no witnesses, no defense attorneys, no appeal, and no hope for justice. Â From unconfirmed and sketchy reports we learned that they were all condemned to life imprisonment.
On Saturday, some sources revealed that Akram Raslan and probably other prisoners were executed on the way to jail, under the orders of the Deputy Vice President for Security Affairs in Syria.
This appalling new of Akram Raslan’s murder is not officially confirmed…we are still hoping!
In partnership with “Cartooning for Peace”, once a week ARTE is publishing a press cartoon on events unfolding in the Arab world.
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One of the spearheads of Cartooning for Peace is its involvement in the Near East. On several occasions Cartooning for Peace has hung up its hat and exposed cartoonists to opinions, confessions and diverging commitments; they have, however, known how to share a common goal without animosity.
