My Boots are Beautiful Session at the ALForum 2025, Tirana

My Boots are Beautiful Session at the ALForum 2025, Tirana

Yesterday, on the 20th of June, we had the honor to attend the ALForum 2025 with our ALFinMotion project "My Boots are Beautiful". This years' forum had the overall theme "The Dialogue Effect: From Knowledge to Action”. Therefore, the session was focused on ACT!

President and LEAR, Mr. Gürkan Akçaer, presented the four young speakers in the panel, Gentjana Hasa, Ida Elsborg, Karawan Dawoud, and Amina Dzafic, who spoke about projects in the field of peace promotion under the topic of "War and Peace". Gentjana Hasa shared how the idea to the project came up with children from Türkiye and Bosnia-Herzegovina drawing boots to express their feelings and create messages of peace. Ida Elsborg shared insights from the psychological field upon the role of empathy and perspective-taking in peace promotion and how art can be used as a tool for human communication. Participants were then invited to take action themselves by drawing their own boots and sharing their messages of peace with each other. Karawan Dawoud then continued sharing first-person perspectives from the eyes of Palestinian Children, including an experience to let participants explore how to practice empathy and perspective-taking. Amina Dzafic finalised the session with her speech about the use of data and digital tools in peace promoting projects. Participants shared comments and ideas for future project and were invited to take photos with their drawings in the photo-booth corner.

It was a touching and emotional session that inspired participants at the forum to continue the work for peace and join the choir of voices spreading impactful messages of peace that talks to the heart.

We would like to thank the organisers of the forum for this great opportunity and a special thanks to Mr Necdet Sağlam, Mr Egemen Bağış and Mrs Meral Barlas for their support and attendance. Also, we would like to thank Mrs. Aline Aznavourian whose help and assistance we could not have done the session without. We look forward to joining next year's  forum.


You can read more about the session here:

https://www.aa.com.tr/sq/ballkani/rama-jetojm%C3%AB-n%C3%AB-nj%C3%AB-moment-mjaft-t%C3%AB-nd%C3%ABrlikuar-vecan%C3%ABrisht-n%C3%AB-evrop%C3%AB/3604609

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