The power and the responsibility of political
cartooning were illustrated by the Prophet Mohammad cartoon debacle and
the controversial cartoon exhibition on the Holocaust in Iran.
Conceived by the French cartoonist Plantu, ‘Cartooning for Peace’
is an initiative born on October 16, 2006 at the UN Headquarters in New
York. Twelve of the most renowned political cartoonists from all over
the world participated in a two-day conference to help us ‘Unlearn
intolerance’. The conference was accompanied by an exhibition.
A movement was born.