A new website is launched: http://www.discoverpeace.eu/discoverpeace
Since September 2012, the INMP is one of 7 partners in the Grundtvig – Lifelong Learning Programme project Discover Peace in Europe.
This project is designed to develop new forms of peace education. All partner groups have been active for many years in different fields of peace education and peace work. The objective of this project has three main parts:
- Research in European cities looking for examples of impressive activities of peace personalities and events, locating this historical or contemporary information with its specific address, designing them into Peace Trails;
- Design the curriculum for learning modules about these peace trails, with seminars and outdoor learning;
- Emphasise on outreach, creative eye catchers and raising peace awareness.
The launch of this new website is the result of the first part of this project.
Our cities are full of glorifying memorials for battles, heroism, militarism and male power, but there are hardly any glorifying memorials about peace in history and in contemporary activities. During the 19th century peace congresses, peace societies and peace movements of different approaches have emerged throughout Europe. Ever since then many different kinds of peace activities are taking place all over Europe. But there is little knowledge in the public about all these undertakings. The contrast between the admiration of heroic memories of combat and the almost total missing reminders of admirable activities of peacemakers is overwhelming – if you are aware of it! But most people are not. Most people do not even realize this inconsistence, because we can only get aware of something we are looking for. And as long as most of us are not consciously looking for peace it cannot appear.
The partner groups with whom we work in this project are the University of Applied Arts and Konfliktkultur in Vienna (Austria), Movimento Internazionale della Riconciliazione in Turin (Italy), Coordination pour l’éducation à la non-violence et à la paix in Paris (France), Vitakultura Egyesulet in Budapest (Hungary), Manchester City Council – Nuclear Free Local Authorities in Manchester (UK), and Paulo Freire Gesellschaft in Berlin (Germany).
Next week, The Hague hosts several public events commemorating Bertha von Suttner. Last year, during the Peace Palace Centenary, she was honored as the first woman with a bust in the Peace Palace. This year we commemorate her 100th death anniversary (21 June 1914) and 125 years after the publication of her famous novel Lay Down Your Arms (1889).
On 20 September, the Saturday of the 
The Friedensbim (Peace Tram) is Vienna’s contribution to the International Peace Day, 21 September 2014, initiated by INMP member Stefan Frankenberger, Philipp Reichel, the