Accompanying the art exhibition is a collection of essays by a distinguished and diverse group of Canadians who reflect on the question “What have we learned from war?”

Their responses illustrate the complex and conflicting nature of war, its capacity to elicit our most destructive instincts, as well as our greatest examples of courage, heroism, and camaraderie.

Essays by:

• Izzeldin Abuelaish: “Interacting with war beyond the screen”
• Joseph Boyden: “Vimy Memorial”
• Jean Chrétien: “What have we learned from war?”
• Roméo A. Dallaire: “What have we learned from war?”
• John de Chastelain: “What have we learned from war? Canada 1914 – 2014”
• Mellissa Fung: “What have we learned from war?”
• Sally Goddard: “What have we learned from war?”
• J. L. Granatstein: “The lessons of history”
• Joy Kogawa: “Work in progress: Gently to Nagasaki”
• Margaret MacMillan: “Why should we remember the First World War?”
• Charles Pachter: “Thoughts on the war to end all wars”
• Kim Phuc Phan Thi: “What have we learned from war?”