Innovation Fair & Film Programme

The Innovation Fair at The Berlin Moot is an interactive space that showcases proactive, unique and creative ways in which peace can be reshaped. It features research projects, emerging products, peacemaking initiatives, and an immersive short film viewing experience to highlight the different and new approaches to reshaping peace already being taken. With pop-up presentations and ample opportunity to connect with global experts and each other, the fair provides a platform for participants to dive into the topics of discussions in a different way. 

The Innovation Fair will be formally introduced at 12:30 on Day 1 of The Berlin Moot.
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Exhibitors attending The Berlin Moot:

• ‍PeaceRep, a consortium of research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and local research teams led by the University of Edinburgh Law School that focuses on interdisciplinary research on peace and transition processes, innovative PeaceTech, and peace process design and support

• Peace Dividend Initiative, a peace-dividend accelerator dedicated to harnessing market forces for peace and cultivating peace-supporting economic opportunities in fragile and at-risk countries
• MIRCURY, a conflict resolution institute that proposes a new and innovative way of contributing to the prevention and resolution of violent conflict by addressing the socio-psychological, political and economic drivers of conflict holistically
• Alliance for Climate and Peace, a non-governmental, non-profit and voluntary organisation operating in Southern Somalia to improve the peace processes and establish peaceful societies that live together, prevent violent conflict and creating viable initiatives to fight against climate changes
• In Place of War, a global organisation that uses creativity in places of conflict as a tool for positive change and enables grassroots change-makers in music, theatre and across the arts to transform a culture of violence and suffering into hope, opportunity and freedom
• Forensic Architecture, an interdisciplinary research agency operating across human rights, journalism, architecture, art and aesthetics, academia and the law with the mandate to develop, employ, and disseminate new techniques, methods, and concepts for investigating state and corporate violence
• Berghof Foundation, hosts of The Berlin Moot and an independent, non-governmental and non-profit organisation supporting people inconflict to achieve sustainable peace through conflict transformation and peacebuilding

Film Program:

The Berlin Moot’s Film Program addresses the urgent need to raise awareness about cultures at risk in conflict zones, highlighting the importance of peacemaking and the discussions happening at the conference. Culture holds tremendous potential as a tool to transform peace mediation, making protection crucial now more than ever.

This immersive film viewing experience taking place in our Innovation Fair sheds light on the impact of warfare, conflict, and social unrest on the cultural heritage of affected communities. Presenting a selection of short films curated by the Human Rights Film Festival Berlin, we aim to foster cross-cultural understanding, inspire dialogue across languages and backgrounds and explore the role of culture in conflict transformation and peacemaking.