People Power: Fighting for Peace
Ian Kirk-Smith welcomes a powerful and moving exhibition
In the past hundred years the world has experienced conflict, warfare, worldwide destruction and violent death. It has also seen the growth of a mass mobilisation of people opposed to settling conflict by violent means – a rejection of war.
The Imperial War Museum (IWM) in London was set up in 1917 in the year of Passchendaele and the Russian Revolution. It has chosen to commemorate its centenary with an exhibition on the anti-war movement. It is an unexpected subject to find in a building full of tanks, guns and fighter planes.
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