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ART FOR PEACE Type Description Project 'Masterpeace Georgia' and 'Caucasus Youth Nexus' organized a project called ''Art for Peace'', which was dedicated to one of the main ideas of Masterpeace: ''Creation Above Destruction''. Students and young artists from different Georgian Universities came together at Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Young artists created individual paintings and simultaneously they conducted one joint painting with their own signs and peace phrases on it. The activity was dedicated to peace building through art in order to overcome already existing difficulties among different ethnic groups currently living in Georgia and to help them to live peacefully together. Therefore in ''Art for Peace'' young artists from Azerbaijan, Armenia, Sri-Lanka, India, Iraq, Iran, Turkey were represented together with Georgians. On one paper everyone painted their own national flags and put the word ''peace'' on