An art exhibition entitled "Conquering Conflict through Creation: The Power of a Child's Canvas" will open at the Willy Brandt Centre Jerusalem on 6 February at 18:00.

The exhibition features work by Palestinian children and youth from the SOS Hermann Gmeiner School and SOS Children's Village Bethlehem. Each young artist successfully expresses his or her own vision and message about the importance of children's rights within their artwork. The goal of the exhibition is to empower children. By compelling its art onlookers to see the world through the mind of the child artist, the featured pieces hope to demonstrate to visitors "children's powerful capacity to be actors of change", specifically for the future of the Middle East.

This children's art project is the first step towards a collaborative art programme that the Willy Brandt Center is currently developing with SOS Children's Villages in the Middle East region. The prospective aim of the joint-efforts of SOS Children's Villages and the Willy Brandt Center is to use children's rights as the joining force and common ground of influence, for creating more collaborative events in the near future.

To find out more about the exhibition and the Willy Brandt Centre Jerusalem, please visit www.willybrandtcenter.org