The Plea for Peace Project and Musical is an initiative to promote nonviolence as the option towards conflict resolution and understanding, in pursuit of lasting and sustainable peace. It comprises of:

• a musical: a set of poetic writings about Mahatma Gandhi, Nobel Peace Prize laureates and peace activists set to music, performed by school children;
• an online petition, calling for the Norwegian Nobel Institute to declare Mahatma Gandhi Honorary Nobel Peace Laureate;
• several peace clubs for students and teachers to learn about historical, political and social aspects of Nobel Peace laureates and peace activists, and to promote a lifestyle of nonviolence.

The Peace Clubs achieve their goals by various activities, such as the monthly celebration of a peace laureate or activist. During each month they research that person’s life and background, and reflect on their own lives. The clubs are already operative in a number of high schools in Cape Town. Internationally, informal collaborations have started with individuals and institutions in Colombia, Israel, Palestine, Mexico and USA.

www.pleaforpeaceproject.wordpress.com

Peace Museum Vienna attempts to conduct peace education through the lives of its Peace Heroes. These heroes include historic as well as contemporary figures who spent their lives either promoting peace through their profession such as Johan Galtung or practiced peace and nonviolence as their main strategy for a peaceful life such as Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela.We plan to extend our peace education efforts to schools in Vienna.

We intend to expand our initiative “Windows for Peace” to a minimum of 20 cities and include 5000 Peace Heroes worldwide by 2020.

Peace Museum Vienna
Blutgasse 3/1
1010 Vienna, Austria
Liska Blodget –  Founder and President of Peace Museum Vienna   +43 676 644 8191   liska.blodgett@peacemuseumvienna.com
Ali Ahmad –  Director of Peace Museum Vienna   +43 664 942 1387  ali.ahmad@peacemuseumvienna.com
Wilfried Janko –  Board member of Peace Museum Vienna   +43 699 152 75003   wjanko@peacemuseumvienna.com

www.peacemuseumvienna.com

The Nobel Peace Center presents the Nobel Peace Prize and its ideals. It is an arena where culture and politics merge to promote involvement, debate and reflection around topics such as war, peace and conflict resolution.

The center presents the Nobel Peace Prize laureates and their work, in addition to telling the story of Alfred Nobel and the other Nobel prizes. This is done using multi media and interactive technology (for which it has achieved international recognition), exhibitions, meetings, debates, theater, concerts and conferences, as well as a broad educational program and regular guided tours.

The Nobel Peace Center current exhibitions are included in our exhibitions section.

Radhusplassen
Oslo, Norway
www.nobelpeacecenter.org
post@nobelpeacecenter.org

+ 47 48 30 10 00

My Peace Palace Collection started in 2005, when Vincent Stittelaar scoured flea markets, antique shops and the internet for any item connected to the Peace Palace in The Hague. The collection currently holds more than 1000 objects, varying from kitchen ware and textile to various books, boxes and all kinds of souvenirs. Stittelaar is still collecting new memorabilia and wants to participate in and organise exhibitions.

On the Peace Palace Centenary (28 August 2013) the website was launched as a virtual Peace Palace Museum. The aim is to share this collection of Peace Palace memorabilia, including knowledge about both Hague peace conferences, with anyone who is interested, and eventually to build a Hague peace museum that would educate about The Hague’s historical judicial roots as International City of Peace and Justice.

www.mypeacepalacecollection.com
info@mypeacepalacecollection.com

The Museum voor Vrede en Geweldloosheid (Museum for Peace and Nonviolence) is a virtual museum on the internet. Their address in Delft houses a small museum, open on appointment only. Since 1 July 2013, the museum also operates a permanent exhibition space inside the Resistance Museum South-Holland.

They promote a culture with less violence, through the use of travelling exhibitions in libraries, schools, major houses and museums. Their museum shop among other things sells games that promote cooperation instead of competition.

The museum works with volunteers and has 500 supporters. Twice a year they publish a newsletter entitled De Vredesboot (The Peaceboat).

The Museum voor Vrede en Geweldloosheid travelling exhibitions and current exhibitions are included in our exhibitions section.

Vlamingstraat 82
2611 LA Delft, The Netherlands
www.vredesmuseum.nl
info@vredesmuseum.nl

Tel : 015-785.01.37

Resistance Museum

Turfmarkt 30
2801 HA Gouda, The Netherlands
www.verzetsmuseum-zh.nl

The Museum Peace, Security and Defense Research in the Republic of Macedonia has two departments: the Department for Military History and the Department for Peacekeeping Operations. The latter collects, researches and exhibits historical items and documents related to the country’s peace processes and the Army of the Republic of Macedonia’s peacekeeping operations abroad under UN, NATO and EU command.

The museum was opened in 2006 as Military Museum in the military barracks ‘Goce Delcev’ by decision of the Ministry of Culture in Skopje. In 2008, the government of the Republic of Macedonia decided to reform and restructure this Military Museum and moved the organization in the building of the National Museum of Macedonia. On 7 December 2012, the museum was officially renamed to Museum of Peace, Security and Defense Research. The museums have an UNESCO certificate and work together with Skopje’s archeological, ethnological and historical museums, such as the Museum of Holocaust and the Memorial Museum of Mother Teresa. Macedonia is the homeland of 1979 Nobel Peace Prize Winner Mother Theresa.

Kurciska bb
1000 Skopje, Macedonia

In the area of a former insane asylum in Collegno in Piazza Cavalieri della Santissima Annunziata 7 was inaugurated on 20 September 2008, the Museo-laboratorio di Pace, the first and only of its kind in Italy. It is a museum evolving in a dynamic process open to contributions from everyone.
In fact, through the study of a science museum that involves the audience with new communication technologies, the Museum – laboratory Peace Collegno is a kind of “workshop”, in which the visitor is not a spectator but an active player.

Website

The purpose of the Mugonkan art museum is to contribute to promoting peace education through introducing paintings by students who majored in art, but were sent to battlefields to be killed during World War II. The museum distinguishes itself by collecting, preserving and exhibiting such paintings, as well as researching them and making them known to the public.

3462 Koaso, Ueda city
386-1213 Nagano, Japan

The Luthuli Museum was officially opened on 21 August 2004. It is located in the original 1927 home (currently a national monument) of first African Nobel Peace Prize laureate Chief Albert Luthuli.

The vision of the Luthuli Museum is to €œ”Let the Spirit of Luthuli Speak to All”.
The mission of the Luthuli Museum is to conserve, uphold, promote and propagate the life, values, philosophies and legacy of the late Chief Albert Luthuli in the struggle against Apartheid oppression and respect for human rights as well as life devotion to non-violent resolutions to world problems.

3233 Nokukhanya Luthuli Street
Groutville, KwaDukuza, 4450
South Africa
www.luthulimuseum.org.za
luthulimuseum@luthulimuseum.org.za

Tel : (032) 559-6822

Koen Vlerick is an autodidactic painter, poet and artist.

With his drawings, paintings, poetry, collages and constructions he testifies to love for life, nature, earth, peace and freedom in an unpretentious way. But his work is also an expression of aversion for the ugly and horrible things in life. He takes a stand against war, poverty, discrimination, environmental destruction, and injustice. It is his private way of expression, his means of communication, to laugh and cry.

www.koenvlerick.exto.nl
koen.vlerick@telenet.be