Project Description: To promote awareness of UNHCR efforts to aid refugees through Angelina Jolie’s efforts as a Goodwill Ambassador. Learning Point: Using well-known personalities will ease the burden of bringing recognition to causes. Their interaction with foreign audiences will help to accomplish diplomatic goals, while bringing recognition of efforts to citizens of their own countries. Organisation: UNHCR [...]

Project Description: The goal of the bed-ins was to use John Lennon’s celebrity and access to media outlets as a means of promoting world peace, and more specifically to end the Vietnam War, by appealing to the citizens and governments of aggressor states. Learning Point: International broadcasts of songs and images can be effective in inspiring a [...]

Project Description: To keep out Western influences and prevent the influx of culture through banning the West’s strongest musical influence of the time: the Beatles. Learning Point: Strong social influences are difficult to exclude from any society. By seeking to eliminate one of the key social and cultural phenomena of the era, the Soviet Union exposed itself to [...]