The British & Commonwealth Peace Museum is a small private museum, dedicated to the quest for peace and understanding in the world. A peace based on mutual victory, understanding, enlightenment and beauty, not a peace based on humiliation and defeat of the “€œother”€. The museum documents and exhibits all aspects of the search for peace between nations, people, religions and cultures both in history and ongoing. Their aim is to act as a scholarly research centre for peace and a living “museion” for peace research, to enable students and visitors to stay on retreat and see how peace might be feasible.

Each of the 9 large rooms of the castle is devoted to a particular Muse, and contains books, artefacts, paintings and sacred objects associated with the traditional archetypal energy of that Muse. They are also willing to house educational events and display appropriate memorabilia from the peace movements of Britain in an educational setting.

Castle of the Muses, Carrick Castle, Loch Goil
Lochgoilhead PA24 8AG, Argyll & Bute, Scotland
www.educationaid.net / www.lulu.com/iipsgp
iipsgp@educationaid.net

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Via Ezio Andolfato 1
20126, Milan, Italy
museoitalianoperlapace@gmail.com

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The museum’s goal is to commemorate and condemn this genocide, helping family victims, preventing the repetition of such a crime, and working for peace.

Banimaqan Chamchama
00964 Chamchamal Sulaimaniyah Kurdistan
Iraq
monoment.anfal@yahoo.com

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The Yi Jun Peace Museum was formerly known as De Jong Hotel, at the time of the second Hague Peace Conference (15/6/1907 – 18/10/1907). During the conference, the Korean patriot Yi Jun stayed at this hotel with the mission to attend the conference, and to protect Korea from Japan’s attempt to annexation. Yi Jun however, failed to gain admittance to the conference due to Japanese objection. On the morning of 14 July 1907. Yi Jun was found dead in his hotel room, cause unknown and mysterious…
In remembrance of Yi Jun, the museum is maintained as a historical monument. After renovations of the hotel building, the Yi Jun Peace Museum was opened on 5 August 1995.

Wagenstraat 124a
2512 BA, The Hague, the Netherlands
yijunpeacemuseum@hotmail.com

+31 70 356 2510

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Women for Non Violence in Peace and Conflict Zones is designed to inform civilian and military survivors of gender-based violence about the welfare of those affected, especially in armed conflict and unstable regions of the world. The main vision is to create a survivors’ network and working committees aided by communication platform to bridge Northern and Southern region survivors of SGBV.

The Women4Nonviolence website was created initially in response to both civilian and mililtary survivor groups who wished to catch up on the latest developments regarding UNSCR 1325 on women, peace and security (and allied resolutions) and their impact at The Hague. The site also intends to facilitate communication with its users globally to initiate and to catalyze positive action.

www.w4nv.com
bkawamura@w4nv.com

Oslo, Norway +47 97 00 28 19

London, United Kingdom +44 07752 411458

Honolulu, Hawaii +1 808 627 5772

Tokyo, Japan +81 090 3676 1079

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Currently housed in a building donated by the municipality of Tehran within the historic city parc, the Tehran Peace Museum is as much an interactive peace center as a museum. The Iranian secretariat of the international organisation Mayors for Peace is also housed in this building. Additionally, the museum maintains a documentation centre for the individual stories of victims of warfare and its library includes a collection of literature spanning topics from international law to the implementation of peace to oral histories of veterans and victims of war.

North Gate – Parke Shahr
Tehran, Iran
www.tehranpeacemuseum.org

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Cast Lead is an art initiative opposed to violence. Its weapons are theatre, the arts and common sense. They aim to connect current manifestations at excessive violence to cities that have been the target of horrific bombardements themselves and have found a way of commemorating these events in a special way.

Amsterdamse Veerkade 84
2512 DJ, The Hague, The Netherlands
www.ingridrollema.nl
www.theatreofwrongdecisions.eu
www.castlead.eu
ingrid.rollema@rollema.nl

Studio

Lepelstraat 1, The Hague, The Netherlands

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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

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Peace Museum 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

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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

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