Since the 1960s , Colombia has experienced nearly continuous armed conflict, most notably between the government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the FARC. In 2016, the government of President Juan Manuel Santos – Nobel Peace Prize recipient – and the the former combatants signed  a peace treaty ending a half century of civil war that witnessed more than which had more than  a quarter million deaths and nearly six million people displaced from their homes. To assure the implementation of the agreement and to make the agreement effective and to fight the structural  inequalities that fueled the long conflict, having fueled the conflict, the government has bet on culture as a central element in the reunification of the nation.. 

In partnership with the National Library of Colombia, LWB installed twenty Ideas Box kits d in demobilization and transition zones, where the former combatants shed their arms to reintegrate into society. In creating meeting places, these libraries helped to initiate the peace process by encouraging exchanges and restoring trust between affected communities.

The district of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh saw the arrival of almost 700,000 Rohingya refugees in 2017, a Muslim minority from Myanmar that had been the victim of systematic discrimination for decades. Most  of these refugees are concentrated today in the Kutupalong Camp, a veritable city of wooden and bamboo shelters where the literacy rate does not reach 40%. 

In 2019, LWB installed six Ideas Box and Ideas Cube kits in Rohingya refugee camps and surrounding host communities. Several workshops were set up for Rohingya children and adolescents, including  the creation of an interactive map of the different services in the camp, and the collection of traditional Rohingya stories and tales. These libraries, physical and digital, provide refugees and local populations with opportunities to  inform themselves, to play, and to express themselves individually and collectively.