Global Voices Summit 2017

The first victim in conflict is often the truth. In regions where fighting has created black and white narratives, we've seen the seekers of truth transform themselves, often organically, into conflict storytellers. How do these storytellers find the truth and highlight nuance and context? How successful have these storytellers been at reclaiming skewed narratives and putting the people affected by the conflict at the center of the story? How do they find collaborators and manage trolls online, where spaces are already so polarized? And can storytelling help heal the divisions violence, conflict and polarization has created? In this panel we’ll explore these questions and more while looking at examples from Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Kashmir and Syria.