THE  PRINCIPLE  OF  RECIPROCITY

You do not research the history of your own group,
but that of the people who were driven
from the place where you live now.
The place decides who the other is.

A Viennese in a house from which Jewish families were taken away.
An Israeli on the land of a village depopulated in 1948.
Whoever lives on land from which indigenous peoples were driven.

Whoever helps restore the roots of the other
restores their own.



THREE  STEPS

gathering sources about a place and its past

a gathering with art, where descendants and inhabitants meet
and the driven receive a dignified farewell

a record of what this work sets in motion in your own origins



ENCOUNTER  AT  EYE  LEVEL

neither above nor below —
no one speaks on the other’s behalf

We do not rank the suffering of one
above that of another.


Friedensimpuls I — Vienna, 2025 →