The background of this artwork consists of all wars fought in the past 100 years (August 2008):
1908-1909 Moroccan War
1908-1909 Persian Civil War
1909-1910 Second Rif War
1909-1911 Nicaraguan Civil War
1909-1911 Wadai War
1910-1921 Mexican Revolution
1911 Russo-Persian War
1911-1912 Second Franco-Moroccan War
1911-1912 Italo-Turkish War
1911-1914 Mexican Civil War
1912-1913 First Balkan War
1912-1916 Contestado War
1913 Second Balkan War
1914-1918 World War I
1915-1934 United States occupation of Haiti
1917-1922 Russian Civil War
1917-1918 Soviet-Turkish War
1918 Finnish Civil War
1918 Georgian-Armenian War
1918-1919 German Revolution
1918-1919 Greater Poland Uprising
1918-1919 Polish-Ukrainian War
1918-1920 Georgian-Ossetian Conflict
1918-1920 Armenian-Azerbaijani War
1918-1920 Estonian War of Independence
1918-1920 Latvian War of Independence
1918-1920 Lithuanian War of Independence
1919 Czechoslovak-Polish conflict
1919 Hungarian-Romanian War
1919 Turkish War of Independence
1919 Third Anglo-Afghan War
1919 Portuguese Monarchist Civil War
1919-1920 Italo-Yugoslav War
1919-1920 Polish-Soviet War
1919-1920 Hungarian Revolutionary War
1919-1921 Irish War of Independence
1919-1922 Greco-Turkish War
1919-1926 Third Rif War
1920 Polish-Lithuanian War
1920 Second Silesian Uprising
1920 Turkish-Armenian War
1920 Zhili-Anhui War
1920 French-Syrian War
1920-1921 Guangdong-Guangxi War
1921 Red Army invasion of Georgia
1921 Third Silesian Uprising
1921-1922 East Karelian Uprising
1922 First Zhili-Fengtian War
1922-1923 Irish Civil War
1924 August Uprising in Georgia
1924 Second Saudi-Sharif War
1924 Second Zhili-Fengtian War
1925 Petrich Incident
1926-1927 Northern Expedition in China
1927-1933 Nicaraguan Civil War
1927-1949 Chinese Civil War
1929 Afghan Civil War
1929 Soviet-Chinese War
1929 Lapua Movement
1929-1930 Women's War
1930 Central Plains War
1931-1932 Japanese Invasion of Manchuria
1932 Ecuadoran Civil War
1932 Shanghai War
1932-1935 Chaco War
1932-1933 Colombia-Peru War
1934 Austrian Civil War
1934 Saudi-Yemeni War
1935-1936 Second Italo-Abyssinian War
1936-1939 Spanish Civil War
1937-1945 Second Sino-Japanese War
1938 Changkufeng Incident
1939 Hungarian Invasion of the Carpatho-Ukraine
1939 Slovak-Hungarian War
1939 Italian Invasion of Albania
1939 Soviet-Japanese Border War (1939)
1939-1945 World War II
1939-1940 Winter War
1940-1941 French-Thai War
1941 Ecuadorian-Peruvian War
1941 Anglo-Iraqi War
1941-1944 Continuation War
1944-1949 Greek Civil War
1944-1945 Lapland War
1944-1949 Latvian Partisan War
1944-1949 Lithuanian Partisan War
1945-1949 Indonesian National Revolution
1946-1954 Vietnamese War of Independence
1947-1947 Paraguayan Civil War
1947-1948 Indo-Pakistani War
1947-1948 Palestinian Civil War
1948-1949 Costa Rican Civil War
1948-Present Internal conflict in Myanmar
1948-1960 Malayan Emergency
1950-1953 Korean War
1950-1951 PLA Invasion of Tibet
1952-1956 Tunisian War of Independence
1952-1960 Mau Mau Uprising
1953-1953 Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
1954-1962 Algerian War of Independence
1955 1972 First Sudanese Civil War
1956-1956 Poznań 1956 protests
1956- 1956 Hungarian Uprising
1956-1957 Sinai Campaign
1956-1959 Cuban Revolution
1957-1958 Ifni War
1958-1958 Lebanon Crisis
1959 Tibetan Rebellion
1959-1975 Vietnam War
1962-1975 Laotian Civil War
1967 1975 Cambodian Civil War
1960-1965 Congo Crisis
1960-1996 Guatemalan Civil War
1961-1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion
1961-1991 Eritrean War of Independence
1961-1974 Portuguese Colonial War
1961 1974 Angolan War of Independence
1961-1964 Tuareg Rebellion
1963-1974 Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
1964-1974 Mozambican War of Independence
1961-1961 Invasion of Goa
1962-1962 Sino-Indian War
1962-1966 Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation
1962-1970 Yemen Civil War
1962-1975 Dhofar Rebellion
1963-1963 Sand War
1963-1967 Shifta War
1964-1979 Rhodesian Bush War
1964-Present Colombian Armed Conflict
1965-1966 Operation Power Pack
1965-1965 Indo-Pakistani War
1965-1989 South African Border War
1966-1988 Namibian War of Independence
1967-1967 Chola incident
1967 Six-Day War
1967-1970 Nigerian Civil War
1967-1989 Communist Insurgency War
1967-Present Communist Insurgency in the Philippines
1968-1998 The Troubles
1968 Prague Spring
1968-1970 War of Attrition
1969-Present Islamic insurgency in the Philippines
1969-1969 Football War
1969 Sino-Soviet border conflict
1971-1971 Bangladesh Liberation War
1971 Indo-Pakistani War
1972 Libya-Sudan conflict
1973-1973 Yom Kippur War
1973-1991 Western Sahara War
1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising
1974 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus
1975-1991 Ethiopian Civil War
1974-2002 Angolan Civil War
1975-1991 Lebanese Civil War
1975-1978 Indonesian invasion of East Timor
1975-1989 Cambodian-Vietnamese War
1975-Present Conflict in Laos involving the Hmong
1976-1983 Argentina's "Dirty War"
1976-2005 Insurgency in Aceh
1977-2002 Mozambican Civil War
1977 Libyan-Egyptian War
1977-1978 Ogaden War
1978 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
1978-1979 Uganda-Tanzania War
1978-1987 Chadian-Libyan conflict
1979 Sino-Vietnamese War
1979-1982 First Chadian Civil War
1979-1989 Soviet Invasion of Afghanista
1980-1992 Salvadoran Civil War
1980-1988 Iran–Iraq War
1980-Present Internal Conflict in Peru
1981 Paquisha War
1981-1986 Ugandan Bush War
1982 Falklands War
1982 Israeli Invasion of Lebanon
1982 1982 Ethiopian-Somali Border War
1983 U.S. Invasion of Grenada
1983-Present Sri Lankan Civil War
1983-2005 Second Sudanese Civil War
1984-Present Kurdish insurgency in Turkey
1984 Siachin War
1985 Agacher Strip War
1987-1993 First Intifada
1987-Present Second Ugandan Civil War
1988- Present Casamance Conflict
1988- Present Somali Civil War
1986-1992 Somalian Revolution
1992-1994 Operation Restore Hope
1994-2006 War between Somali clans
2006 Rise of the Islamic Courts Union
2006- Present War in Somalia
2007- Present Islamist insurgency in Somalia
1988-1994 Nagorno-Karabakh war
1989-1991 Mauritania-Senegal Border War
1989-1990 U.S. Invasion of Panama
1989-1992 Afghan Civil War(First Phase)
1989-1996 First Liberian Civil War
1989 Romanian Revolution
1989- Present Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
2003- Present Darfur conflict
2003- Present Iraq War
2003- Present Islamic insurgency in Saudi Arabia
2004-2004 Haitian coup d'état
2008-2006 War in North-West Pakistan
2004-2006 Sa'dah insurgency
2004-2007 Central African Republic Bush War
2004- Present Kivu conflict
2004-2007 South Thailand insurgency
2004-2007 Ivorian-French War
2005- Present War in Chad
2006-Present Mount Elgon insurgency
2006-Present Mexican Drug War
2006 Lebanon War
2006-2007 Fatah-Hamas conflict
2006-Present War in Somalia
2007-Present Second Tuareg Rebellion
2007 Lebanon conflict
2007-2008 Civil unrest in Kenya
2008 invasion of Anjouan
2008 conflict in Lebanon
2008 War in South Ossetia
Watercolours (sky) , oil (mountains, globe) and ink (text) on painting pad and watercolour paper. The text was edited with Photoshop.
Just the text itself and the listing of wars took me half a day of research.
After drawing and painting this artwork, I started collecting the piece diaries andI´m still collecting the most peaceful moments of people from all around the globe. If you haven´t contributed yet, please write me your most peaceful moment and send it to me via note or email me at "the-little-peace at gmx dot de"
harrahartPosted: August 23, 2009 Profound and extremely saddening. Hopeful that one we will be able to resolve difference and ignorance without conflict.
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