The Global Arts and Politics Alliance (GAPA) is an idea thought of by Gana Comagic and Wanda Tiefenbacher, who both at the time lived and worked in Montenegro. Following some negative NGO experiences, we thought about founding our own organisation based around a topic we really care about: political art, and the advancement of its status in the political and artistic world. We want to provide a platform for people involved in the discipline of political science (academically, as activists or otherwise) and all sorts of artists – ranging from filmmakers to drawers, from theatre directors to graphic designers and graffiti artists. There exists an important link between those two groups: the advancement of knowledge about political issues, and within that some form of activism for political, social and cultural awareness. Think about Banksy’s socially critical amazing graffitis, or brilliant animated films like Persepolis. Artists should have the opportunity to engage in conversation with academics, professionals and thinkers on the matter of politics, and those in turn should find an opportunity to give their knowledge a face in the form of artistic expression.