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[email protected] Editors: Daniela Mussnig, Rebecca Zeilinger. Design & Layout: Andrea Fiala. © Fotos: Interkulturelles Zentrum. Print: Druckerei Janetschek. 1 EDITORIAL “Peace is so precious. We don’t know ‘the other’ and its point of view – it is the awful slogans above. The crea- it, until we lose it. It is like health – we to recognize oneself in the other. All of tion of the “Pages for Peace” was one never fully appreciate how lucky we are us around the world have very simple task within the international project to be healthy, until a simple cold or a desires – to be safe, to prosper, to “ARTiculating Values: Youngsters act sore throat reminds us how good it was learn, to have friends and grow, to be in EuroMed. A creative initiative for before we had it. I am a firm believer surrounded by our families, to listen to interreligious dialogue and a peoples- in never losing sight of the value and music […] It is only by being able to fully connecting value debate”. The project preciousness of peace, and doing our identify and empathise with ‘the other’, involved 16 schools and six organisa- very best in preserving and maintaining realizing that by denying the ‘other’ tions from Austria, Denmark, Hungary, it, doing our very best to avoid ever of the same desires and rights that we Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, the Nether- losing it – and if it ever arises, doing have feels the same as it would feel to lands and Turkey and aimed at the everything in our power to prevent be denied them ourselves – that we promotion of mutual understanding conflict or resolve it as soon as possible.