Tunisia holds its first festival of peace
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Tunisia is hosting its first ever peace festival.
As part of the event, organisers are hoping to make the world's biggest flag - covered in human hand prints.
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Children in Tunis scramble to add their hand prints to what's becoming a colourful - and rather large - flag.
It's part of Peace Festival Tunisia, the first event of its kind, which is being marked across the country.
And the flag's significance lies at the heart of the festival's message: that Tunisia is a land of peace and tolerance.
Launched on 27 August in Jendouba, in the north west of the country, the festival is an initiative led by young people from the city.
I don't think that it will establish peace in Tunisia but I think that, without so ambitions, but I think it is really something nice because its spontaneous initiative of young people, says Dimiter Chalev, Head of the UN Human Rights Office in Tunisia.
The festival organisers are encouraging each of Tunisia's 24 governorates to print a flag - 500 metres square in size.
The pieces will then be joined together - to try and win a place in the Guinness Book of Records for the world's largest.
Organisers hope they will be able to beat China, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia who have previously created giant flags featuring hand prints.
The Guinness World Records team will give us a Tunisian record on 21 September, which is World Peace Day, say a confident Moataz Bellah Ouaslati, the festival chair.
It's not all about the flag though.
The festival also features night-time music and dancing.
Lebanese actor, Bassem Wahbi, is in Tunisia to hand over a flaming torch - from a peace festival in Lebanon.
It is an honour for me to take part in this festival because we pray to maintain peace all over the world especially for Arab people, he says.
The peace festival also hopes to raise money for some worthy local causes, Ouaslati explains.
This peace festival, its incomes will be used to finance the creation of the second national centre of drugs prevention and addiction which will be built in Jendouba;
The first national centre opened in 2007, in the south eastern city of Sfax to help young Tunisians cope with addiction and re-integration into society.
The peace festival continues throughout Tunisia until 21 September, closing with a final celebration at the Olympic Stadium in Rades, when organisers will also find out if their flag has won a place in the Guinness records book.
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The Tunisian Revolution was an intensive campaign of civil resistance, including a series of street demonstrations taking place in Tunisia, and led to the ousting of longtime president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011. It eventually led to a thorough democratization of the country and to free and democratic elections.
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