Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Reporter Olaf Koens explains how he sees rescue workers being targeted in war zones, underlining the point made by research director Ihab Saloul that wars these days are directed against civilians.

How does a society move forward after atrocity? After war? Genocide? Now that president Trump has established a ‘Board of Peace,’ in which reconstruction appears to be approached primarily as a real-estate deal, we examined the politics of peace together with Assistant professor in International History Iva Vukušić, Co-Founder and Research Director of the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture AHM Ihab Saloul and Author, reporter and former Russia correspondent Olaf Koens.

▶️ Watch the entire programme How Wars End on De Balie’s YouTube channel (this programme took place on June 25)

🖌️ Programme editor and moderator: Senna Felius
🤝 Supported by: Vfonds