The LoveBack Project is a visual campaign that celebrates positive role models responding to terror and violence in creative and constructive terms. It tells the stories of creative defiance expressed in community building activities, music, dance, in theatre and on screen, as an instrument of social reformation in building collective action.
get to know moreLoveBack is a community of concerned citizens in the UK, USA and abroad who believe we can make a difference by raising awareness, support and engagement in proactive initiatives.
get to know moreThis campaign explores the uncomfortable realities of global terrorism but more importantly exposes the inspiring stories of people responding constructively to the ideology and violence. It is our intention that profiling these stories help us propose alternative narratives and a robust dialogue that will lead to affirmative action, not just within the political construct but spread across the diversity of cultures affected by the trend.
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Inspiring stories of people responding constructively to the terrorist and gang ideology and violence in Nigeria.
Stories that directs alternative narratives, introduces robust dialogue and leads to affirmative action, not just within the political construct but across the diversity of cultures, strata of society and human lives.
Stories that challenges injustice and demonstrates love and peace.
In March this year, Boko Haram abducted 105 girls in Dapchi, Nigeria, whom they force to convert to Islam. One abducted schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu, under pressure from her abducted school friends, and despite intimidation (and very possibly violence) from her captors, refused to renounce her faith.
Boko Haram refused to release Leah Sharibu (while releasing the others) because she kept her Christian faith.
Christians are among the most persecuted minorities in the world. I am not talking about the side-lining of Christianity in public life, as is happening in much of the West.
Millions of Christians are fleeing their homelands and thousands are being martyred particularly across the Middle East and parts of Africa.
In northern Nigeria's Maiduguri Diocese, Islamist Boko Haram's mass killing and other violence has caused 1.8 million people to be displaced and left 5,000 widows and 15,000 orphans.
In June of this year, as many as 200 Christians were murdered and over 3000 displaced in the villages surrounding Jos in Plateau state in Nigeria.
Reports from local Christian leaders have said that as many as 6,000 people, mostly women and children, have been killed by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Nigeria since the start of the year.
learn moreWE AND OUR PARTNERS are learning THAT THE WORLD NEEDS A CREATIVE AND RADICALLY DIFFERENT APPROACH TO SOLVING SOCIAL PROBLEMS
