Walk of Causes – Episode 2

For the freedom of press.

Lost in a thick forest in the mountains of Lebanon, we ran out of water. It was getting late, and we didn’t bring any artificial light with us. So, guided by the moonlight, we were looking for a dry place to put our head. We had put in eight hours of walking that day, probably in circles, and we were deadly tired. We could sleep anywhere.

One of the problems we expected to meet on our way was communication with the local people. We don’t speak arabic, and are pretty novice when it comes to body language. Despite that, we had conversations for hours, joked and made friends. We made friends everywhere.

This episode is dedicated to the freedom of press. According to Reporters Without Borders, 66 journalists have been killed in 2011, and 173 are in jail for telling the truth.

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Walk of Causes – Lebanon – Episode 6

Against Land Mines – Supported by Ferd

In our attempt of being true adventureres we believe that we cannot rest for too long, so after having spent the night with Nasser the Shepheard and his family we hit the road again.

We have now reached the magestic Qadisha valley, that carves its way through the mountains in the North of Lebanon. We passed popular attractions, such as the Cedars, Ehden and the village of Bcharre. But we had to keep our minds clear and not let ourselves being taken away by this beauty, as we were reaching soil infested with land mines.

There are more than 300.000 land mines left in the lebanese soil since the civil war. In addition to this, Israel dropped more than four million cluster bombs of “leftover” ammunition over Lebanon in 2006, leaving up to 49 percent bombs unexploded for children and farmers to discover in the future.

Norwegian Peoples Aid is one of many organizations that works to prevent this from happening by clearing the land from mines and bombs. This episode of Walk of Causes is dedicated to the work they do, and is supported by Ferd.

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Walk of Causes – Lebanon – Episode 7

Against Discrimination – For Human Rights Watch

One of the problmes we faced in the beginning was the language barrier. We don’t speak Arabic, and Norwegian seems to be fairly useless, unless you are in Norway, of course. But now that we’ve been on the road for some time, we’ve started to master the art of body language, and have learnt how to socialize wordless without falling into awkward situations.

This time, we walked over the magnificent mountains in Laqlouq, and ended up in Afqa.

This episode of Walk of Causes is dedicated to the fight against discrimination. We could not find any sponsors for this episode, but we support Human Rights Watch for the work they do, and would like to encourage everybody to the same.

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Walk of Causes – Lebanon – Episode 8

Against Poverty

Now that we’ve been on the road for quite some time, Jørgen is starting to feel it in his body. His $10 shoes seems to hold, but his feet are falling appart from the inside! And as each step is reminding him of this pain, we run out of money, which is problem that had to be dealt with urgently.

This episode of Walk of Causes is dedicated to poverty. Fundamentally, poverty is a denial of choices and opportunities, a violation of human dignity.[1] Today, more than 1.7 billion people are estimated to live under absolute poverty, which means that they cannot afford basic human needs, such as clean water, proper nutrition, basic health care, clothes and shelter. Every day 17.000 children die from hunger.[2]

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Walk of Causes – Lebanon – Episode 9

As we’ve walked out of our financial problems, and Jørgen’s feet started to feel better, we met a man that told us what Lebanon used to be like during the war. We also met a woman that explained the concept of “cocktail villages”.

Lebanon is one of the countries in the Middle East that has tasted war the most, and many regional conflicts has found their battleground on Lebanese soil. Therefore, this episode of Walk of Causes is against war.

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Walk of Causes – Episode 13

Now that we’ve been on the road for quite a while, Matias’ body is finally about to give in. We expected more problems actually, as none of us have ever walked across a country before, nor exorcized. But the pain seemed to have been accumulating, and now it reached a point where we were forced to find a solution to the problem. And the solution was to sit down and rest while firing guns.

Right after the first world war the armenian population of the ottoman empire was systematically destroyed. Their people where deported in forced marches under conditions designed to lead to the death of the deportees. Between 1 and 1,5 million people were murdered in this massacre, which is widely acknowledged to have been one of the first modern genocides.

However, due to pressure from Turkey, most countries in the world still don’t recognize it as a genocide, something almost no scholars back them up with.

It is important to recognize this as a genocide, as “the denial of genocide is widely recognized as the final stage of genocide, enshrining impunity for the perpetrators of genocide, and demonstrably paving the way for future genocides”(1)

Many of the Armenian Holocaust survivors settled in Lebanon, and we often spend time in their neighborhood in Beirut.

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