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Sunday, 10 May 2009 02:39


"Matriarch" of the twentieth century peace research movement, Elise Boulding died peacefully at 4:40 pm on Thursday June 24.
Her webpage provides more about her last few weeks: http://www.earthenergyhealing.org/EliseBoulding3.htm. 
A copy of her obituary, kindly prepared by her biographer Mary Lee Morrison is HERE.


The new International Network of Museums for Peace Secretariat is now open at:
Laan van Meerdervoort 70
2517 AN  The Hague

 

FAX & PHONE: 0031-70-3450202 

Secretariat Administrator is Drs. Nike Liscaljet. 
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The Gernika Peace Museum Foundation, has organized an extensive program for the second half of 2010, among which two exhibitions (Guatemala: So that all shall know by the  Guatemalan photojournalist Daniel Hernández-Salazar and Dia - Tekhne: Dialogue through the art of Basque artist Alex Carrascosa), various educational activities (summer camp in July and September, new and exciting educational workshops ...), organization of the International Week of Peace (September), International Week of Human Rights (December .)...

COMPLETE INFORMATION HERE ENGLISH>   SPANISH>     FRENCH>

 

 

Peace Museums in the Russian textbook 

ACTUAL TEXT HERE>> 

 Good news reached us from Moscow. The most popular Russian high school textbook of English language for 9-graders Enjoy English includes a one-page text on peace museums. It gives a short introduction on peace museums as well as it features some details on the International Museum of Peace and Solidarity in Samarkand. The article is titled "Start Smiling" Now referring to our international project “The World Smiles”. Students are requested not only to read this text, but also to analyze it and to do some exercises listed below it.

Enjoy English is on the official federal list of textbooks recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation. This textbook has run through several editions and is widely used in general educational institutions all over Russia. Its authors: Merem Biboletova, Elena Babushis, Olga Clark, Alevtina Morozova and Inna Solovyova.

 Peace and Cheers, 

Anatoly Ionesov

Samarkand-based International Museum of Peace and Solidarity   

 Russian Textbook that mentions peace museums in it.

 

Quaker Heritage Center, Wilmington, Ohio USA

 

Bridges of Friendship: How Children Learn about Other Cultures

International Exhibit to Open at Wilmington College on March 3, 2010

 

 

 Peace Museum Bradford UK gets Yellow Pages write up.

PEACE MUSEUM
BRADFORD gets nice write up in
local Yellow Pages.

more here>> 


 

 


 

 

"Role of Scientists & Engineers Towards Social Responsibility in Developing Countries"
which was arranged jointly by Indian Institute for Peace, Disarmament & Environmental Protection, 
International Physicians for Prevention of  Nuclear War (IPPNW) and Indian campaigning to 
Ban Landmines & Cluster Munitions on 17 January 2010 at Nagpur, India.

 

Conference Report Here>>

 
Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 23:32