Make (olive) oil, not war!

Drums of war are beating around Ukraine this week. Ordinary people find themselves divided by a line drawn on a map. Life has become difficult around the frontline between Ukraine and Russia and people who used to belong to one country are starting to see each other as enemies.

WoW! News chose this week to go and meet some other Europeans in a similar position. They're on the Mediterranean of Cyprus. Two generations ago, Cypriots who spoke Greek and Cypriots who spoke Turkish had a huge falling out. There was fighting. It was miserable for everyone and they ended up drawing a line on the map across the island to separate themselves.

Now young people are trying to find ways for the two sides to live peacefully with each other again. We interviewed Cemre Berk in Cyprus. She helps sell a brand of olive oil called Colive. (You get the play on works? Co-live: living together through olives!)

Colive was the brainchild of Hasan and Alexandros, a Turkish Cypriot and a Greek Cypriot. They became friends and now they make olive oil using olives from both sides of the line. Sales are booming. And it's proving a way to remind people, whichever language they speak or whichever side of a line they live on, that there is much more that we have in common as human beings than divides us.

Meet Cemre and hear the full story in this week's capsule in the WoW! News app.