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In 2017 the Council in Woodbridge, Suffolk UK, agreed to establish for the town what has become a Monument for Peace. The idea came after my retirement from a long career of teaching science and later of inspecting learning in schools. Inspiration came from locally resurgent Quaker values and from the nationally wide range of […]
ITEMS ON THIS SITE - ABOUT PEACE - to think about, talk about or to act on Founder's introduction What's on this site Contents @ 260209 About this Journal What is Peace? How the Trees and Monument will help Peace COMING SOON . . . The origin of Peace Measuring Peace How Peace can grow […]
PUBLISHED CONTENTS Up to and including 7 February 2026 Number of items = 4 . . . . . . Contents About this Journal What is Peace? How the Trees and Monument will help Peace . . COMING SOON The Origin of Peace Measuring Peace How Peace grows
What is Peace? Is there a helpful agreed definition of peace? In short, no; peace lacks a simple agreed definition. That’s a problem for everyone trying to improve peace. Its professional researchers see, for example, that “Peace is too important a goal to be without a firm conceptual basis for research and action." (From 'Measuring […]
Making Peace stronger requires more than can be done by major organisations such as the United Nations Organisation (UNO). In spite of UNO's valuable work the inhumane impacts of modern violence challenge our optimism, our faiths and our hopes. Optimism does not resolve conflicts Faith does not break cycles of violence and revenge Hope is […]
J 000 This Journal is a collection of items drafted, written or gathered since 2017 when a tree in Woodbridge UK was named as the Suffolk town’s 'Tree for Peace'. Since then Peace has continued to fall globally as a result of widespread and increasingly degenerate endeavours by nations and individuals to resolve conflicting ambitions […]