Beyond Relief

Refugee Republic is an interactive transmedia documentary about everyday life in Domiz Camp, a Syrian refugee camp in northern Iraq. You can explore the camp through the pen drawings of an artist, the lens of a photographer, and the ears of a radio producer. You meet the residents and get to know them by scrolling through audio-visual narratives, or wandering through drawings enriched with sound.

Warscapes is an independent online magazine that provides a lens into current conflicts across the world through fiction, non-fiction, poetry, interviews, book and film reviews, photo-essays and retrospectives of war literature from the past 50 years. The magazine is a tool for understanding complex political crises and serves as an alternative to compromised representations of those issues.

The Human Rights Exhibition Project is a research and curatorial initiative based on the archive of UNESCO's traveling Human Rights Exhibition from 1949, which encourages critical debate about the role of human rights today.

The FBSP spotlights NYC neighborhoods through community storytelling events. Programs aim to strengthen community connections, preserve personal histories, and challenge negative perceptions of the outer boroughs and marginalized areas of NYC. 

Shoshana is a musician, activist, and educator who devotes her time to the exploration and development of musical spaces as locations for youth-led conflict transformation in settings of systemic injustice, conflict, and post-conflict. Music Intervention is her blog which explores music education, youth empowerment, and conflict.

Born out of the Occupy Movement, TIDAL is a magazine and platform that weaves together voices of on-the-ground organizers with those of long-standing theorists to explore the radical possibilities sparked by the occupations of Tunis' Kasbah, Tahrir, Sol, Syntagma, and Zuccotti. TIDAL Issue 4: Block by Block focuses on the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and some of the most vulnerable NYC communities it affected.

D'Ambrosio's article investigates creative responses by artists and activists. He states that "creative response is an antidote to the individualism, consumerism, and cynicism that now define our culture."

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist whose Sichuan Earthquake Names Project, or "5.12 Citizen's Investigation", uncovered the 5,335 names of children who were killed by the 8.0 magnitude earthquake in 2008. This work expresses the indignation for the cover-ups of truths about sub-standard architecture in China, which led to the large number of schools that collapsed during the earthquake. 

freeDimensional advances social justice by hosting activists in art spaces and using cultural resources to strengthen their work. The Creative Resistance Fund provides assistance to activists, artists, and culture workers in situations of distress such as imprisonment or legal persecution, violent attack, professional or social exclusion, or harassment.

CJR is a Columbia University-wide action group made up of faculty and students who came together to support the long term recovery process after Japan's 2011 'triple disaster'. The symposiums bring together interdisciplinary perspectives on research and ongoing projects taking place in Japan and around the world. The Nishimiya Fellows participate in a weeklong program introducing medical students to disaster medicine and relief.

Beirut is a new initiative and exhibition space in Cairo that supports the contemplation of transition and contemporary life from the perspective of art, and to provide a space for response.

UMAM is a civil society NGO that recalls the violence and diffuse culture of hostility that rules social and political life in Lebanon. The Memory at Work project is a database that addresses the war's presence and influence on those who either participated in the conflict or suffered its wrath in silence.

Combining art, activism, education, and research into one organization, Platform creates unique projects driven by the need for social and ecological justice.

On 12 November 2008, over 80,000 copies of a replica of the New York Times were distributed in several cities around the United States celebrating the end of the war in Iraq.

INJM is a nonprofit volunteer organization specializing in disaster relief, grass-root support, and rehabilitation of disaster-affected individuals and communities in Japan's Tohoku region. Tsuna Cafe is an ongoing project supporting victims and survivors living in temporary housing communities who lost their homes and loved ones in the tsunami of 2011.

The Institute is a new center for transnational research into East European art and ecology. The River School was a long term civic action project concerning issues related to the Danube River. 

Pete Brook is a writer, curator, and editor of Prison Photography, which brings attention to prisons and other sites of incarceration. The web journal concerns itself with civil liberties, ethics, and social justice as they relate to photography and photojournalism.