Voices Through Walls: How Walls Undermine Human Rights, Humanity, and Peace

Walls have been built for millennium but recently the use of walls has increased with dire humanitarian and environmental consequences along with undermining the peace process.  Human rights and peace are basics to humanity. Without exception, they apply equally to everybody, everywhere and everyday. Walls are against human rights principles, and extend to negatively affects environment, health wellbeing, and all aspects of life. This presentation will explore the correlation between human rights intervention to alleviate certain policies and practices of building walls.  We explore the history of walls and their consequences.  In so doing, we argue that the human rights role needs to be considerably activated in an interdisciplinary perspective. Therefore, it’s important to understand human rights as part of our distinctive status as human beings and of our collective status and values as members of the global community of civilization. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, images, historical archive and literature this paper investigates the implication of the use of walls on the “frustration” of a peoples everyday life and the undermining of the establishment of peaceful coexistence.