Contest for Young People is one of the peace education programs sponsored by the Goi Peace Foundation. The annual contest‚ which started in the year 2000‚ is a UNESCO/Goi Peace Foundation joint program since 2007. The United Nations has designated 2001-2010 as the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World. While every citizen is called upon to think about and act for peace in their everyday lives‚ peace education is encouraged at all levels of
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| Victory in The North | A synopsis on the outcome of the U.S. Civil War | | [Type the author name] | 11/6/2010 | | Since the final battle of the American Civil War was fought in 1865‚ scholars have debated the reasons for the Union’s victory over the Confederacy. Historians have attributed the war’s outcome to many factors‚ some of which include Lincoln’s superior leadership‚ the South’s failure to diplomatically secure foreign intervention‚ emancipated slaves enlisting in the
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News • Support • Contact You are here: 1. Home 2. Issues 3. Articles 4. War‚ Propaganda and the Media 5. The Peace Journalism Option The Peace Journalism Option This article is a reposting from the old POIESIS web site (which has now been replaced by some search engine site). They ran a series known as Conflict and Peace Forums and in 1997 and 1998 provided transcripts. Part 1 (1997) is provided here. It is reposted here because some articles on this site cited
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20‚ October‚ 2011 Fighting for Peace‚ Praying for Violence Do we have peace if we are not been shoot by a gun? As the word reference dictionary states‚ peace is freedom from disturbance; and the freedom or cessation of war. In fact‚ peace is not only the absence of wars and weapons; peace is an inner emotional state that can be reflected to others in order to maintain good relationships of the people around us. "Peace is not a dream; it is hard work‚ and there is nothing naive‚ glamorous or simplistic
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About world peace Every leader in the world aims to find a lasting solution to the problems that beset our planet but so far‚ peace on earth has continued to be an elusive dream. There are many movements‚ conferences‚ brotherhoods and fraternities all over the world that promotes the idea of world peace. Philosophers‚ theologians‚ politicians‚ and other great thinkers from the past up to the present have offered so many formulas and ideas for achieving peace but no one has yet came up
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Peace Education Peace is not a new concept. People have been studying peace ever since there was conflict‚ loss‚ and the realization that we take peaceful times for granted. Peace education‚ as in peace taught in schools‚ on the other hand‚ has been forming mostly over the past three decades. There are several aspects of peace education that are essential knowledge when going to teach peace. In order for peace education to happen the teacher needs to take into consideration the child’spersonal
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PEACE OUT “Peace”‚ or “Peace Man”‚ accompanied by V-fingers out or “Peace Out” with two closed fist pumps to your chest were slang used in the 1970ʻs that meant‚ chill or relax or good-bye‚ respectively. Although our nation has experienced wars that date back from the 18th century with the American Revolution‚ 19th century with the Civil War‚ 20th century with World War 1 and 2‚ to today with the War on Terror‚ it is only natural that the nation has taken comfort in a term like “Peace”‚ defined
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What is Peace? Peace is a noun and could be defined as freedom from disturbance; quiet and tranquility. Although it is much more than just that; peace is what we all yearn for however most of us can never find. It is what we fight for. It is what we live for. Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict and the freedom from fear of violence. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility‚ peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or
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Diana Martinez Dr. M. C. J. Miller World History II 03/27/2013 The Peace Movement in the 1920’s Peace movement can be defined as “an international [social] movement against war and militarism‚ whose members are willing to fight for a stable and indestructible peace‚ regardless of the differences in their nationality‚ political and religious beliefs (KRYLOV).” The United States in particular has experienced many movements of these kinds in recent years‚ but the 1920’s was an era where the nation
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The patriarch‚ Jose Isaac Hernandez‚ was a survivor. As a young boy he experienced the death of his mother and two siblings. As an adult‚ he saw the demise of his young first wife. Now a husband once again - to his second wife‚ Marta‚ a daughter of a Bulakeño businessman - Jose needed to exercise the resilience and creativity he had learned as a young boy. His family was caught in the middle of the second war of the 20th century. As his motor shop declined‚ he traded goods and made and sold soaps
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