NSTP

• Narrow meaning of peace

  1. Absence of war
  2. Absence of terrorism
  3. Absence of physical violence
• Broad meaning of peace

  • seen not only as the absence of direct violence
  • A state and process of well-being and security in which human rights are respected and basic human needs are met
• Peace is elusive
• Definition of peace

  • inner stillness and calm
  • a sense of well-being
  • harmony and cooperation
  • will be a reality when societies are just fair to all
  • it exists when conflicts are resolved nonviolently and when there are practical efforts made to satisfy the basic needs of people in a fair and reasonable manner
• A more positive definition of peace

  • free from armed confrontation
  • presence of social justice, respect for human rights, gender equality, socio-economic opportunities, ecological balance
  • to put it more vividly, a hungry individual, though experiencing relative calm around him or her, will not feel at peace when he or she does not know where to get food while listening to one's grumbling stomach
• Peace is often defined negatively when war is absent
• Peace - is a process of working to resolve conflict in such a way that both sides win, with increased harmony as the outcome of the conflict and its resolution
• Personal Peace

  • Self-respect, Inner resources: love, hope
• Interpersonal Peace

  • Respect for other persons, justice, tolerance, cooperation
• Intergroup/Social Peace

  • Respect for other groups within nation, justice, tolerance, cooperation
• Global Peace

  • Respect for other nations, justice, tolerance, cooperation
• Peace between humans and the Earth and beyond

  • Global Peace
  • Intergroup/Social Peace
  • Interpersonal Peace
  • Personal Peace
• The dove and olive branch was used symbolically by early Christians and then eventually became a secular peace symbol, popularized by Pablo Picasso after the Second World War
• In the 1950s the "peace sign", was designed as the logo for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and adopted by anti-war and counterculture activists in the United States and elsewhere.
• Two international peace symbols are V hand signal and Peace flag
• The olive tree represented plenty, but the ancient greeks believed that it also drove away evil spirits
• Olive Branch - one of the attributes of Eirene, goddess of peace (whom the romans called Pax), on Roman Imperial coins
• Rabbinic literature interpreted the olive lead as "the young shoots of the land of Israel"
• a traditional, realistic picture of pigeon, without an olive branch, was chosen as the emblem for the World Peace Congress in Paris April 1949
• The dove became a symbol for the peace movement and the ideals of the Communist Party and was used in Communist demonstrations of the period
• at the 1950 world peace congress in Sheffield, Picasso said that his father had taught him to paint doves, concluding, "I stand for life against death; I stand for peace against war
• The internationally known symbol for peace was originally designed in 1958 for the British nuclear disarmament movement by Gerald Holtom
• Gerald Holtom is an artist and designer, made it for a march from Trafalgar Square London to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston in England
• The symbol for peace is a combination of the semaphore signals for the letters "N" and "D", standing for "nuclear disarmament"
• GPACE - Give Peace a Chance Everywhere
• The international peace flag in the colours of rainbow was first used in Italy on a 1961 peace march from Perugia to Assisi organised by the pacifist and social philosopher Aldo Capitini
• In November 2009, a huge peace flag, 21m wide by 40m long, was made in Lecce, Salento, by young members of GPACE
• V sign - a hand gesture that had been used to represent victory during the Second World War
• Peace Crane - a traditional symbol of luck in Japan, was popularized as a peace symbol by the story of Sadako Sasaki (1943-1955), a girl who died as a result of the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima in 1945
• Peace is not essentially about structures but about gestures of people
• Peace is a gift from God. The fruit of our faith
• Peace is about people; bringing people together, building relationships
• Steps of Dialogue

  1. Promotes encounters
  2. Listening and engaging
  3. Journeying together for justice and peace
• Patterns of educating for peace

  • reflective a sensitivity to marginalized sectors, youth, indigenous communities, and promoting more inclusiveness