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Throughout the coming months, individuals and groups are invited to share
their messages of peace leading up to the conference in Calgary. We encourage
all who visit this website to share their Piece of Peace with the world.
We welcome your thoughts, art, letters, poetry, photos, or any other medium
by which you would like to contribute your Piece of Peace.
Please also state something of the context and why you value the "piece".
Credit should be given if it is not your own work. Send contributions,
attached to an email, to mctavjoc@shaw.ca. Email size is often limited by various systems. Best to keep it below
a megabyte.
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Carla Pelkey has kindly created this unique design for the IPRA2006 Conference.
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Peacemakers - a poem by Jock McTavish musing on how the natural conflict of community
is changed to acceptance only as peacemakers opening our eyes and ears
to the distress of others, inspire us all to justice. |
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 David Moore has created a "Human Being Flag" - "to go Beyond,
Color, Prejudice, Inhumanity and Injustice to All Human Beings. We are
All Human Beings. We are All connected. ... As Human Beings, we were All
born with Equal Rights. EQUAL RIGHTS. NOT EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES. And for
that,,,,,,,, I am saddened" ...for more |
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| Thanks to Bob Stewart, http://www.peace.ca, some links and comments on Peace Education and the future. ...for more |
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| Tracey Pickup of Project Ploughshares Calgary draws our attention to the International Take Action to control Small Arms Campaign. Some of you have I have contacted before and for some this will be your
first contact on this campaign. The International Take Action to Control
Small Arms campaign is in full swing. Everyone can participate in
small and big ways.... for more. |
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| Title: "Peaceful Boundaries of Alberta" . Photos by Larry Fisk. Click on them for the full size images. |
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| 1. Red Deer River Badlands near ghost town of East Coulee, Alberta about
150 km east of Calgary. |
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2. Near Morley Church T'suu T'ina Indian Reserve, 48 km west of Calgary
overlooking Bow River Valley, foothills and Rocky Mountains. |
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How I see the peace movement related to social policy. from Beverly Smith.
"We are all in this alone, but we are also all in this together. Though
democracies and capitalist nations have to reward initiative and encourage
individual responsibility, the idea of encouraging ‘independence’ is a
bit misleading. Nobody made it all alone and we need laws and policies
that admit that". ,,,for more.
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| Jan Oberg of the Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research took this photo of the Burundi-Kamenge Peacewall which sends a message
of hope in these many words for peace from a place where peace was long
a stranger. |
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