Featuring the artwork of more than 40 international artists, the show will explore the response to the current period of expanded and endless wars, both intense cross-border battles, and the quiet violence of "disappearances". The project set out to explore this fundamental question: if war is universally opposed, why do new conflicts keep breaking out? Is there an addiction to warfare in the human psyche? Has it become a drug we cannot quit? These and many other questions regarding the nature of "soft" conflict; the poisonous allure of flags, national anthems and nationalism; and global media's pornographic fascination with violence are explored in this project.

The show includes artists originating from Lebanon, Italy, Poland, Colombia, Australia, Palestine, Iraq, Malta, Korea, Mexico, Germany, France, South Africa, US, and UK. From Bangladesh, the show includes the works of Shishir Bhattacharjee. Discussing his work, Naeem Mohaiemen wrote in the show catalogue: "Many Bengalis know his work through his other life as a leading editorial cartoonist, and that style has bled into his artwork. In this new series created for Papesse, he tackles the gun culture and violence endemic in Dhallywood, the Bangladesh film industry that is a bastardisation of Bombay and Los Angeles. This series was completed in January 2007, just as Bangladesh went through a prolonged period of violent political confrontation, ending in the installation of a new interim government. It seems the daily news is never far from his studio process."