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Content
With Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the topic of war has recaptured the attention of Europe. Communities across the continent host refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons. Each of them has a story. And each of these stories is characterised by personal feelings, pain, loss, suffering, joy, hope, courage and strength.
In “Scars of Strength”, 14 young people from five countries (Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine) describe their experiences of war, flight and displacement. All stories are true, the result of several workshops organized by Libereco, the Gustav Stresemann Institute in Lower Saxony, and East SOS in which the authors collaborated with experts in oral history and graphic novel design, to identify the focal points of their journeys and organize them into narrative form. Utmost care was paid to authenticity, with authors striving to overcome language and cultural barriers to recreate their perspectives at these key moments for the reader.