Open to the public continuously, the Village for Peace hosts a wide range of activities for the public and for young people: photographic exhibitions, testimonials, meetings and signing sessions with authors, discussions with associations and NGOs… A programme to discover!

Come and attend privileged discussions with speakers and partners of the Forum in the Ouest-France Agora area, to grasp current events in small groups.

Thursday, the 28th of September

• 10:30 – 12:00 : Women’s voice (Youth workshop)
• 14:00 – 14:30 : Discussion with Pascal Boniface, director of the IRIS
• 14:30 – 15:30 : Debate workshop on media education (Youth workshop)
• 16:30 – 18:00 : Keynote speaker session (Youth workshop)

Friday, the 29th of September

• 10:30 – 12:00 : To tell without words, in collaboration with Cartooning for Peace (Youth workshop)
• 14:00 – 14:30 : Presentation of the comic book Isidore et Simone, juifs en résistance, to be published on the 6th of October by Ouest-France edition
• 17:00 – 18:00 : Keynote speaker session (Youth workshop)

Throughout the Forum, you can visit three large exhibitions around the topic “Resistance! Bring peace back to the people”.

“Their Resistance, Our History” in collaboration by Paris-Match

For almost 75 years, Paris Match has featured portraits of men and women on its covers and throughout the magazine, everyday heroes and heroines who, sometimes in spite of themselves, have shaped our contemporary history. For the 4th year running, the Normandy World Peace Forum has commissioned Match to produce a photo exhibition of thirteen large-format prints looking at events of resistance that have left their mark on world history.

Inside Out Project in the framework of the 75 years of the Blue Helmets

Launched by artist JR, Inside Out is a participatory art project which helps individuals and communities around the world get a message across by displaying their portraits in the street.

“Saamis, we lived in the tundra” in collaboration with the festival “Les Femmes s’exposent”

The Saamis – last autochtone people of Europe spread across between Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Russia –lost their autonomy on Russian territory with the arrival of Soviet power in the 1920s. These nomads, who made their living from reindeer herding and fishing on the tundra, were forced to live in flats, to work in kolkhozes, and to abandon their traditional practices. Photograph Natalya Saprunova reveals their situation.

On that space, come and meet NGOs, and associations and institutions working for peace and to combat inequalities in the world: Amnesty International, the French Red Cross, Ensemble contre la peine de mort, l’Oeuvre d’Orient, the INA and its web serie “Résister, pour qui? Pour quoi ?”

Animated by the bookshop Le Brouillon de Culture, the World Forum ephemeral bookshop will be selling books to complement the debates you attend, often written by the speakers themselves. Among them, several authors will be signing their books.

Music, like peace, aims to achieve harmony. And what could be more agreeable than having lunch with music between two debates?

Each lunchtime, a mini-concert will be held at the Village for Peace.