50 Years On: Lebanon’s Civil War, Feminist Peacebuilding, and the Fight Against Silence

50 Years On: Lebanon’s Civil War, Feminist Peacebuilding, and the Fight Against Silence

By Sania FarooquiBENGALURU, India, Sep 8 2025 (IPS) This year marks half a century since the start of Lebanon’s civil war in 1975 – a conflict that lasted 15 years, killed over 150,000 lives, and resulted in as many as 17,000 missing. Decades later, the legacy of that war is still everywhere: in the silence of classrooms without history books, in families who never knew what happened to their missing loved ones, and in violence made mundane in a…