Contact us to have a peace project mentioned here!
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See links and details on these projects below.
Rooms for Peace
CRS and Peacebuilding
Pies For Peace
The Peace Alliance
Peace One Day
Stand For Peace
Pledge For Peace
Checkpoint One Foundation
Bakhita Project
TODAY’S CHOICES EFFECT TOMORROW’S DREAMS
The Body Peace Project
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The Rooms for Peace Mission
Rooms for Peace is a nonprofit supporting other nonprofits by connecting like-hearted travelers and hosts. Our goal is nothing short of revolutionary--opening our homes and our hearts to the possibility, and the inevitability, of world peace. www.roomsforpeace.org
CRS now has impressive programs for Peacebuilding:
http://crs.org/peacebuilding/
Originally known for their relief efforts, their literature states that
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Armed conflicts are the leading cause of world hunger
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It is estimated that 300,000 children are involved in more that 30 armed conflicts around the world
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There are anywhere from 50 to 100 wars being fought at any given time
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Developing nations continue to be the primary focus of foreign arms sales
Art
Against War is a monthly event at the Heartland Café
showcasing artists who oppose the US war and occupation of Iraq. Each
month, AAW partners with an organization dedicated to ending the war in
Iraq and creating alternatives to war and violence.
For more information:
visit www.myspace.com/artagainstwar
or email: artagainstwar@gmail.com
773-777-7133
Pies For Peace in Forest Grove, Oregon, by 2008 has raised $20,000 for Mercy Corps with their peaceful baking and accepts custom orders. www.mercycorps.org/aboutus/inthenews/1562
The campaign for a U.S. Department of Peace
Peace One Day - Sept. 21 is World Peace Day
Enter your own a commitment for peace at their web site, see videos, and plan soccer games!
http://www.peaceoneday.org/home.aspx
Stand For Peace, Washington County Peace Vigil at SW 5th and Hall St. in Beaverton, Oregon.
Patriots stand every Wednesday, 6:30 to 7:30 PM,
with handmade signs, waving and smiling at passing motorists.
Checkpoint One Foundation http://www.cponefoundation.org/home
Helping endangered Iraqi translators relocate.
Also helping Iraqi Refugees: www.saverefugees.org
Bakhita Project:
Efforts for Christian/Muslim Unity in Sudan
Click here for the Bakhita brochure: Page 1 and Page 2
TODAY’S CHOICES EFFECT TOMORROW’S DREAMS
This book compiles life-experience stories, taken from COMPASSION magazine, of death row inmates – with the focus being to try to persuade young people to make good choices in order to avoid the paths taken by the death row prisoners.
The Body Peace Project
The Body Peace Project generates participation and awareness in the artistic, non-violent expression of our desire for peace. We invite artists to create and photograph artistically rendered peace messages involving the human body as a canvas. Using the body as a canvas adds intimacy and a reminder of corporeal vulnerability to the project. (The message should be written, painted, projected or adhered in some fashion directly upon the body, not digitally added upon the photograph.) Photos are the property of each individual artist and may not be used without the artist's consent. Photos appear at the discretion of the curator. (This site contains nudity. Although it is of an artistic nature, you must be 18 years old to enter the site. Parents should preview the contents before allowing children to view.)
