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WHAT IF SOLDIERS FOUGHT WITH PILLOWS?
Taking inspiration from J.Okay. Rowling—“We don’t want magic to vary the world. We supply all the facility we want inside ourselves already: we have now the facility to think about higher”—Camlot ponders the facility of creativeness. Some folks weren’t solely in a position to envision a greater world, they put their ideas into motion. Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector in World Conflict II, carried a Bible as an alternative of a weapon into battle. It’s not fairly the pillows of the titular query, nevertheless it does paint the image of a peaceable technique to battle. “What if battlegrounds have been soccer fields and spectators cheered for each crew?” Les Éléphants of Ivory Coast introduced their warring nation collectively after they certified for the World Cup. “What if everyone confirmed as much as a political get together with their dancing sneakers on?” A younger Palestinian who dared to bounce despite strict militant restrictions now shares his story to advertise peace. Bloch’s cartoons lengthen the theme, depicting, as an illustration, the facility of music to impact change with an image of airlifted refugees clinging to a musical employees dangling from a helicopter. The uncluttered design—show kind for the main query, Bloch’s fanciful sketches, and one web page of textual content per subject—make this an accessible, bite-sized take a look at highly effective change.