Imagine

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Imagine

• bringing

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Peace to your

• Home
• School
• Town
• Country
• Between Nations

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A woman had a vision

• To create a Peace Room

A place where her grand children could learn
about Peace
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The Outside View
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The view from the Peace Room
The outside view of the Peace Room as drawn in
the Peace Room minutes
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Side view of Peace Room as it is today
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View from the Peace Room
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Peace Room plan
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The Rainbow Bookshelves

• Contained short accounts of the lives of
  constructive workers in the world.
• These were called World Contributors as they
  were people who had contributed to the world in
  some way.

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What happened in the Peace Room?

• Children visited
• Someone acted as Chair person
• Visitors nominated people they thought should be
  called a World Contributor
• All present debated whether the nominee was
  worthy
• If they agreed, the person was put in a book on
  the bookshelf

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The lady who made the Peace Room kept Minutes of
the meetings.
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World Contributors

• Elizabeth Fry prison reformer
• Grace Darling first lifeboat rescue
• Thomas Edison invented the electric light
• Dr Simpson helped develop chloroform
• Dr Barnardo cared for homeless children
• James Mackenzie heart specialist
• Akhenaton Pharaoh united lower and upper
  Egypt

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World Citizens

• Many of the nominees were true World Citizens,
  working across nations for peace.
• But nominees were not always accepted.

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Who was refused nomination?

• Napoleon Bonaparte
• Adolf Hitler
• Why?

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Who would YOU nominate?

• Someone famous?
• Someone you know?
• Someone who has had a real influence?
• Take a few minutes to think about who you want to
  put in the Peace Room.
• A real World Contributor?

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This meeting now in session

• Nominees

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My nomination

• The old woman with the spade whose vision made
  this happen.

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Impact of the Peace Room

• By 1945 there were many books on the Peace Room
  bookshelf. They painted a Rainbow above it.
• Traditionally the ends of a rainbow point to
  pots of money. This rainbow pointed not to gold
  or material wealth but to things of spiritual and
  ethical value.

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Impact continued

• By 1946 news of the Peace Room had reached adults
  working for Peace in Philadelphia USA (Paul
  Fischer).
• In 1952 someone present at the International
  Peace Congress in Vienna wrote a letter to the
  Peace Room members telling them about the
  conference.

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The Virtual Peace Room

• The Peace Room has now been put on the internet
  so that everyone can visit it.
• http//www.worldecitizens.net/wecitizens/peace_roo
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• Lets have a look
• We have made the people who have a place in the
  Peace Room e-citizens electronic global
  citizens.
• And every person who has their biography put on
  the web page will receive e-citizenship too.

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What next?

• Think about who YOU want to nominate.
• Someone who could be considered as World
  e-citizens?
• What information would we need to know?
• Do they have to be famous?
• Write a biography of the person YOU think should
  have a place in the Peace Room

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Your Nomination

• Write about your nomination. Who is it? Tell us
  about their life. Important dates and happenings
  in their life. Make sure all the facts are
  correct!
• Tell us what they have done to deserve
  e-citizenship? How have they contributed to the
  world?
• You can put pictures in about them (with their
  permission of course!)

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And then

• Put your nomination into electronic format (Word)
  You can include a picture if you want with the
  persons permission
• Go to the Peace Room website http//www.worldecit
  izens.net/wecitizens/peace_room
• Click on the table to submit a nomination
• Register, and copy and paste your nomination,
  then click on Submit
• Click on the chair to vote.
• Read other peoples nominations.
• Vote for the one you think should have a place in
  the Peace Room.

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The End
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Quotes

• P10
• I believe they like the idea of a Peace Room,
  and I hope they will help me to build it up into
  something beautiful, and lasting, and strong!
  (Madge to Old Woman with Spade)
• P33 Then I hope the influence from the
  bookshelves will gradually envelope their minds
  their actions their outer and inner lives

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Quotes 2

• P77 Countries also get cross and unhappy because
  they need something they cannot find in their own
  lands. Perhaps they want coal, oil or gold, or
  more land on which to grow crops to feed their
  people.
• Then they try to take these things from other
  nations and there is war and nothing can be more
  wicked or senseless than throwing bombs at each
  other and killing little children and their
  mummies.

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Quotes 3

• P107 Peace on earth and good will to all men.
• Have you ever thought how many millions of
  people have repeated those words millions of
  times during the last 20 centuries? And how far
  they have brought us to eliminating war and
  violence? The message is sound, but have our ears
  become immune to their meaning? May practical
  suggestions succeed where sentimental phrases
  have failed? Should not sentiment develop into
  principles which, like foundation stones, should
  be strong enough to carry any weight placed upon
  them?

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Quotes 4

• P70
• How is a big ant heap built?
• By hundreds of thousands of ants, each carrying
  a tiny load, I suppose.
• And every load, however small, is well worth
  while even great men and women rise on steps
  built by others. Some of the steps were made
  hundreds, even thousands of years ago.
• Dont many names become indistinct and are
  forgotten?
• Perhaps, but the joy of having helped to make a
  step, however small, will always remain

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Enter Citizens of the World Motto-

• P72 I will do my best to understand and remove
  the cause of any trouble that may arise in my
  home, my school, my town or my country.
• This will lead to peace at home, in school, town
  and country leading to International
  understanding, tolerance and peace.

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The Peace Song
Stop up well! We are working for peace As we all
go marching along. A great ideal were determined
to build, On foundations both lasting and
strong. Wholl join us? Well not rest till all
Nations agree To a system thats just and
strong, Then free from care, race-hatred and
fear, We will all go marching along!