If violence could be ended by his leaving, it might be a good step.
I have winced at recent comments made by international politicians denouncing Col Gaddafi and his regime. It isn't because I don't endorse their sentiments (I do), it is their stark terminology that worries me.
Libya is fractured. Endorsement for change is not so clearly cut as the recent calls delivered by the peoples of Tunisia and Egypt. An international narrative which seeks to push a single agenda could be an alienating alternative to a very sticky problem.
These words, served by America's Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, are exemplary of a softer reasoning. They could very well be the way to progress. Sticking to sentiments of rationality and concern, an argument can be crafted that is incontrovertible.
Ask the Libyan people to open their eyes to the violence and they will understand Gaddafi's sinister grip on them, regardless of his own broadcast absolutes to the contrary.
Topicality Is All In Journalism is the distillation of current affairs, news articles and items of cultural note into poster designs and written commentary. It has been devised to promote the level-headed and rational sentiments made by others in reaction to current happenings – be them local, national, international or universal.
The aim is to have a constant stream of visual output that draws from the range of topics being discussed in the public realm. The posters are designed to play with the conventions of advertisements and other public visual material as a means of presenting unexpected motifs within a mostly commercialised realm of printed communication output.
Visitors are actively encouraged to participate by promoting the opinions they feel an affinity with by printing copies of the posters to display in their area.
The Topicality posters will soon be available to order as digital prints and to download as high resolution digital files in a not-for-profit capacity.
This project is run in-conjunction with the National Diplomatic Rhetoric’s ongoing poster campaign to encourage public thought and debate through material that attempts at a neutral and honest communication of facts and ideas.
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