Nineteen Eighty-Four Airstrip One, Oceania's four government ministries are in pyramids (300 m high), the façades of which display the Party's three slogans. The ministries' names are the opposite (doublethink) of their true functions: "The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation." (Part II, Chapter IX – "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism") The Ministry of Peace supports Oceania's perpetual war against either of the two other superstates: The primary aim of modern warfare (in accordance with the principles of doublethink, this
Confronting the Truth Confronting the Truth Confronting the Truth is a documentary film by Steve York about truth and reconciliation commissions and how they work. The film focuses on the past commissions in South Africa, Peru, East Timor, and Morocco. The film was produced for the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) and includes interviews with a number of people involved in transitional justice, the process of fairly confronting the legacy of past crimes committed during armed conflict, including Nobel Peace Prize winners Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Jose Ramos Horta. USIP screened "Confronting the Truth" as part of its Rule of Law program