News from NICO | Talk and film screening on the occasion of Geneva Conventions Day

The Youth Red Cross Units of Nitte Institute of Communication and Nitte Institute of Architecture organised a talk and a film screening on the occasion of Geneva Conventions Day, 12th August 2023.

Speaker, Dr. K Sankaran, Former Director & currently Advisor, Justice K S Hegde Institute of Management, Nitte spoke of the horrors of war and how the discourse of war is an important discussion on this day. The Geneva Conventions are a series of international treaties on the treatment of civilians, prisoners of war (POW) and soldiers who are otherwise rendered incapable of fighting.

The talk was followed by a Question & Answer session. A small exhibition of paintings was also organised in the quadrangle.

The formal function was followed by the screening of the Japanese animation movie - Grave of the Fireflies (1988), considered to be one of the greatest war films of all times and a major work in Japanese animation.