Campaign for the kidnapped and disappeared of Lebanon
Act for the Disappeared (ACT) is a Lebanese human rights association founded in 2010. Its mission is to contribute to the clarification of the fate of the disappeared and missing in Lebanon, to foster a sustainable reconciliation process and to prevent the recurrence of violence in the country.
The aim of this campaign is to mark the specific location of certain kidnappings within Beirut with informative/shocking posters which highlight the ordinarity of these sites today compared to the violence they witnessed in the past. Most of the people who were kidnapped were ordinary people who were going about their day at the time of their kidnapping. The campaign also aims at fighting the institutionalized silence towards the Civil Wars— a notion used by the social scientist Losif Kovras to describe the Lebanese case.