Since 2011, former photojournalist Webster has set up 'street studios' in South Africa – from a main road in Johannesburg to a temporary housing area in Blikkiesdorp – which enable her to take family portraits of locals then offer them up as gifts
Photograph: Alexia Webster/Artraker 2013
After seeing an advert for a house in a magazine then swiftly realising it was a Palestinian man’s former family home that was now being pitched at a strictly Israeli audience, Handal created an ironic 'Dream Homes' property consultancy agency in the region
Photograph: Alexandra Handal
Former child soldier Okuja sketches scenes from his past to heal himself, and to show others the horrors and dangers of war
Photograph: Vincent Okuja/Artraker 2013
The artist asked men protesting against the Kurdish government to carry mannequins of women through Sara Square in Sulaimani, to show how women's rights could help to rebuild society on more equal terms
Photograph: Rozhgar Mustafa/Artraker 2013
After the government banned pre-paid mobile phones in 2009, thousands of 'paper text messages' like these were sent ironically across Kashmir. Hunt uses example texts to show how India's occupation has disrupted everyday life in Kashmir
Photograph: Alana Hunt/Artraker 2013
This installation uses nine burqas and one turban to raise questions about religion and the impact of differing ideologies in wartime. After this work was shown for the first time in 2011, the exhibition was shut down and the artist imprisoned
Photograph: Assadullah Baran Bromand/Artraker 2013
Torres does performance pieces on the streets of Bogotá. Here she wears a coat and hat of white carnations – and leaves a trail of them in her wake as a symbol of the nation's trauma and mourning
Photograph: Elvira Santamaria Torres/Artraker 2013
Nyaphaga is an artist and global community organiser. He has worked with Global Health Programme non-profits to install Tippy Tap water sources in many remote villages (so women and children can clean their hands, lessening the likelihood of diseases spreading). His large cartoony murals make sure everybody in each town knows the work they're doing
Photograph: Issa Nyaphaga/Artraker 2013
Inspired by Foucault, Sartre, Guantánamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, Bayani makes films that question notions of authority
Photograph: Amirhossein Bayani/Artraker 2013
The book Tolerance is full of the results of a three-day grass roots cartoon workshop run by Shams in Karachi. The project brought together Muslim, Hindu and Christian cartoon enthusiasts, ranging from 10 to 40 years old
Photograph: Nida Shams/Artraker 2013
Cotterrell spent time in the hospitals of Helmand for this work that shows the closeknit relationship between war and medicine
Photograph: David Cotterrell/Artraker 2013
This video work explores issues of sexual violence towards women, especially during wartime, and specifically shows the young women, known as 'comfort women', that were forced to be sex slaves in Asia during the second world war
Photograph: Chang-Jin Lee/Artraker 2013
The artists have carried their nomadic library around the world in their backpacks, from New York to Sarajevo, to give people a space to exchange ideas and share stories
Photograph: Valentina Curandi & Nathaniel Katz/Artraker 2013
Renaudat's soundwork is based on more than 110 hours of recordings she made as a reporter in Colombia over 12 years, speaking to victims of violence and documenting political speeches
Photograph: Christine Renaudat/Artraker 2013
The Ukrainian artist's 360-degree, panoramic video installation explores the passage of time and how it transforms society
Photograph: Oksana Chepelyk/Artraker 2013
Lhuisset stages scenes of war, such as this setup of Kurdish-Iranian guerrillas, to show how distorted western images of war are
Photograph: Emeric Lhuisset/Artraker 2013
