50 Years On: Lebanon’s Civil War, Feminist Peacebuilding, and the Fight Against Silence By Sania Farooqui Copyright © IPS - Inter Press Service -- All rights reserved.

https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/09/50-years-on-lebanons-civil-war-feminist-peacebuilding-and-the-fight-against-silence/?utm_source=email_marketing&utm_admin=146128&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Is_Western_Support_for_Israel_Beginning_to_Crumble_Afghanistans_Overlapping_Crises_Deepen_Following_ BENGALURU, India, Sep 8 2025 (IPS) - This year marks half a century since the start of Lebanon’s civil war in 1975 – a conflict that lasted 15 years, killed over 150,000 lives, and resulted in as many as 17,000 missing. Decades later, the legacy of that war is still everywhere: in the silence of classrooms without history books, in families who never knew what happened to their missing loved ones, and in violence made mundane in all parts of society. Copyright © IPS - Inter Press Service -- All rights reserved.