Countdown to the International Day of Peace 2012
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Less than 100 days left to the International Day of peace .
The International Day of Peace, marked every year on 21 September, gives us all a chance to reflect on the unconscionable toll – moral, physical, material – wrought by war. Those costs are borne not only by us today, but by future generations as well.
This year, Tehran Peace Museum as usual, will organize an observance on this day. Further details of the event will be announced soon. If you are interested in contributing in this event , please contact us!
Opportunity for those who are interested in Peace and conflict studies
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A Masters degree in "conflictology"
The first of joint activities to be undertaken under the new cooperation between UNITAR (The United Nations Institute for Training and Research) and the Open University of Catalunya, in collaboration with Peacekeeping Programme that will be followed by joint activities in international law.
Workshop on International Humanitarian Law
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TPM - ICRC Collaboration
According to an agreement between the International Committee of Red Cross ICRC and Tehran Peace Museum TPM, a series of training courses on International Humanitarian Law IHL will be held in TPM . the first program of such series would be a workshop on IHL and use of prohibited weapons which will be held at TPM in mid July 2012.Although this workshop is primarily designed for students of International Law, however those with other backgrounds who are interested in participating in the workshop can apply.
For further information and application please contact us via email.
Education Opportunity at University for peace
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The UN-mandated University for peace is accepting applications for the Distance Education programme: online Master of Arts in "Sustainable Peace in Contemporary World".
For further details visit U-Peace website : www.upeace.org
Workshop on UN Structure and Function / Finding UN Documents was held in Tehran Peace Museum
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A collaboration between UNIC-Tehran and
Tehran Peace Museum
Two workshops on United Nations structure and activities / finding UN documents were held by UNIC-Tehran in Tehran Peace Museum.
The workshops were held during two days on 23-24 May 2012 in which 25 students of master of International law and political sciences participated.
Those who are interested to participate in the coming workshops in this field can contact tehran peace Museum for further information and registration.
International Day of Museums IDM 2012
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Every year since 1977 International Museum Day is organised worldwide around May 18
This day is an occasion to raise awareness on how important museums are in the development of society.
These recent years, International Museum Day has been experiencing its highest involution with almost 30,000 museums that organised activities in more than 100 countries.
In Tehran, a ceremony will be held to mark the IMD on Sunday 20 May in which representatives of many Iranian museums will attend.
Report: Peace Drawing Exhibition of Iranian & Japanese Children
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The Peace Drawing Exhibition of Iranian & Japanese children, was held on 9th & 10th of May 2012 in Arasbaran civic center - Tehran. This exhibition was organized by Hadis Pre-school Center and Tehran Peace Museum as a part of a long term cultural exchange program between Iranian and international children which is aimed to promote a culture of peace and friendship between children.
Peace Drawing Exhibition of Iranian & Japanese Children
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a collaboration of Hadis Pre-school Center and Tehran Peace Museum
9th & 10th May 2012, Arasbaral Cultural Center, 10am to 6pm
The 27th exhibition of the Hadis Pre-school students’ drawings, which is a new collaboration between Hadis and Tehran Peace Museum, presents a joint program between Iranian and Japanese children seeking advocate peace and friendship culture between children.
Lest we forget the victims of Chemical warfare...
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On Sunday 29 April 2012 at Tehran Peace Museum, the observance of the day of remembrance for all victims of chemical weapons was held. Many participants attended the event including survivors of chemical warfare, representatives of international organizations, academics, journalist, etc.
The UN secretary General's message was delivered by the head of UNIC in Tehran then a Video message by the Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons OPCW was shown followed by a message by a survivor of chemical attacks on behalf of Iranian victims of chemical warfare.
Message by the PNND on 29 April memorial ceremony
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Statement on the occasion of the
International Day of Remembrance for all victims of Chemical warfare
For the memorial ceremony in Tehran Peace Museum 29 April 2012
On behalf of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, I extend deepest respects to all those from Iran who have suffered from the devastating effects of chemical weapons use.
STATEMENT BY THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF THE OPCW
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ORGANISATION FOR THE PROHIBITION OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS
REMEMBRANCE DAY FOR ALL VICTIMS OF CHEMICALWARFARE
Today the Chemical Weapons Convention completes 15 years of its operation. This represents 15 years of progress that has no precedent in disarmament. The Convention embodies a commitment that took a hundred years to codify. An unqualified and unconditional ban on chemical weapons was the only means to prevent the carnage that humanity witnessed time and again.
Ban Ki-moon's Message
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UN Secretary General's Message on
THE DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR ALL VICTIMS OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS
29 April 2012
The Day of Remembrance for All Victims of Chemical Warfare is an occasion to mourn those who have suffered from these inhumane arms and to renew our resolve to eradicate them from our world.
When we remind the world of the agony inflicted by chemical weapons, we present the most compelling case for permanently outlawing them and establishing and verifying, through the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), a comprehensive and legally binding ban.
Press Release
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On International Day of Remembrance for
all victims of Chemical warfare
29 April 2012 – Tehran
A remembrance ceremony to commemorate victims of Chemical Weapons will be held in Tehran Peace Museum on Sunday 29 April 2012 from 10 to 11 am.
In the memorial ceremony this year, messages of the UN secretary General and the OPCW Director General will be delivered.
TOT Workshop on: “ Peace education”
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A training of trainers workshop on “Peace education” with focus on techniques for teaching peace to children will be held in Tehran Peace Museum on Wednesday 18 April 2012.
This workshop is a part of the Peace education program of the Tehran Peace Museum.
Participants will receive certificate of attendance.
Children’s Prayer for a peaceful New Year
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Tehran Peace Museum , 11 march 2012 As we are getting close to 20 March, the Nowruz celebration (which marks the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in Iranian calendar) The Tehran peace museum was host of a beautiful ceremony called: “Children’s Prayer for a peaceful New Year” .
Children’s Prayer for a peaceful New Year
International students of Tehran University visited Tehran Peace Museum
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Groups of international students of Tehran University visited Tehran Peace Museum on 09 and 10 February2012. During their visits, the student visitors who are studying various majors such as law, medicine etc., exchanged their opinions and expressed their own view points.
Spokesman of Iran Foreign ministry visitedTehran Peace Museum
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Mr Mehmanparast, Spokesman of the foreign ministry of iran visited Tehran Peace Museum and met with it's members on 01 February 2012. In this friendly meeting which lasted over two hours, they talked on issues such as peace museums worldwide and the society for chemical weapons victims support(SCWVS) activities,
he also listened to eye witness accounts of some survivors of chemical weapons atacks who are volunteering for the peace museum. Mr Mehmanparast appreciated the efforts of the founders of the first Peace Museum in Iran and emphasized on the roots of peace in Iranian culture.
Ceremony to deliver the prize of the selected award winner of "Hiroshima Peace International drawing Competition for Children"
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In a ceremony at Tehran Peace Museum, the prize of Hida Bahmani, the award winner of the Hiroshima Peace drawing Competition, delivered to her with the presence of some of her family members and teachers. In addition of the prize and certificate of honor from Hiroshima Peace Museum - signed by mayor ofHiroshima- , Tehran Peace Museum also gave the twelve years old Hida some extra awards too.
this competition is held annually in Hiroshima and Iranian children / youth who want to participate in this contest can send their art works to Tehran Peace Museum to be delivered to the secretariat inHiroshima.
Finish Under-Secretary of State Mr. Jaakko Laajava Visited Tehran Peace Museum
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On 16 January 2012 members of Tehran Peace Museum, and some members of PSR-Iran (Iranian affiliate of International Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War IPPNW) had a meeting with Finish Under-Secretary of State for foreign and security policy Mr. Jaakko Laajava who has been appointed by UN Secretary General as the facilitator for the 2012 conferenceon on Middle East Nuclear Weapons Free Zone -MENWFZ.
Iran's Foreign minister Visited Tehran Peace Museum
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Dr Aliakbar Salehi,minister of foreign affairs of iran visited Tehran Peace Museum on 24 November 2011.
During his two hours visit he also had a meeting with founders and volunteers of the Peace Museum and listened to a report on international activities of the museum as well as disarmament, ant-Nuclear weapons activities and international exchange programsof the Peace museum.
Dr.Salehi expressed his admiration to the survivors of chemical weapons attacks who are volunteering for the peace museum as guides to share their experience with young generation and raise awareness about danger of WMD despite their suffering and health problems, he also wished that by efforts of peace museums and other civil society organizations we will never witness human tragedies like atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as chemical attacks against Irans.
A General History of the Peace Museum Movement
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A General History of the Peace Museum Movement
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Peace Museums are a relatively new idea. War, on the other hand, has enjoyed glorification through monuments, literature, art, and war museums for centuries. Against the backdrop of these relatively one-sided accounts, the idea arose of comprehensively recording the details of warfare—its depravity, the acute human costs associated with war, the totality of warfare that extends beyond the images of glory and valor—in the setting of a formally organized museum. The motivation for such an endeavor was and still is the faith that “making people aware of the reality of war [is] tantamount to educating them for peace.
The dawn of the age of modern warfare at the turn of the 19th century provided the impetus for establishment of the first noted peace museum of our era. In 1902, the International Museum of War and Peace was opened to the public in Lucerne, Switzerland. It was another two decades before another peace museum took root. In the wake of the devastating effects of World War I on European society, particularly in the German republic, Ernst Friedrich launched the First International Anti-War Museum in 1925. It was later closed by the Nazi regime in 1933 as Friedrich fled persecution.
The second wave of peace museums sprung up after the destructive years of World War II. Appropriately, the majority of these museums were established in Japan, where a keen understanding of the fatal consequences of nuclear warfare was realized. The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were centers of staunch opposition to nuclear warfare that spread throughout the world. Peace museums also were instituted in post-war Germany.
Today, peace museums can be found in every continent of the world. Though war still lingers, there is hope to be found in the growth of the peace museum movement. Efforts aimed at furthering the cause of peace are truly “an incremental enterprise. The greater the presence of peace museums , the more palpable the message of peace for the general public to approach, appreciate, and assimilate as part of their own beliefs. |
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A brief History of The Tehran Peace Museum
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The Tehran Peace Museum
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The Idea of founding TPM began with a conversation between the founders of the Tehran-based Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support (SCWVS) and a coordinator for the International Network of Museums for Peace in 2005 .
This, as well as a visit to Hiroshima, Japan by members of SCWVS , fed into the desire for a peace museum in Tehran. It was in Hiroshima where the suffering from atomic arms was able to convert most powerfully into a drive for peace manifested via a peace museum. This ability to use the intense suffering of war to highlight the need for peace made the museum’s founders realize Iran’s parallel suffering from chemical arms and the need for a parallel drive for peace.
Currently housed in a building donated by the municipality of Tehran within the historic City Park, the Tehran Peace Museum is as much an interactive peace center as a museum.
The museum's peace library includes a collection the implementation of peace to oral histories of veterans and victims of war. Permanent and rotating peace related art exhibitions displaying the work of amateur international and Iranian artists are also housed in the museum complex. Finally, the Iranian secretariat for the international organization " Mayors for Peace" is housed in the Tehran Peace museum. Tehran Peace Museum was temporarily closed for public visitors in 2010 for redesign and the new building with completely new design was inaugurated in a ceremony on 28 June 2011. Mr Koichiro Maeda, Director of Hiroshima peace Memorial Museum was special guest of the reopening of Tehran peace museum.
Director Maeda and Deputy Mayor of Tehran cutting the ribbon during the opening ceremony of TPM, June 2011 |
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Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University
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Tehran peace museum
Tehran peace Museum is a member of the International Network of Museums for Peace. the main objective of the museum is to promote a culture of peace through raising awareness about the devastating consequences of war with focus on health and environmental impacts of Chemical weapons.
Currently housed in a building donated by the municipality of Tehran within the historic City Park, the Tehran Peace Museum is as much an interactive peace center as a museum.
On June 29, 2007, a memorial for the poison gas victims of the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88), along with a Peace Museum, was completed in a park in Tehran, the capital of Iran. These facilities were established by the Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support (an Iranian NGO), the city of Tehran, some other NGOs, and individuals and groups in Hiroshima.
The museum coordinates a peace education program that holds workshops on humanitarian law, disarmament, tolerance, and peace education. At the same time, it hosts conferences on the culture of peace, reconciliation, international humanitarian law, disarmament, and peace advocacy.
Additionally, the museum houses a documentary studio that provides a workspace wherein the individual stories of victims of warfare can be captured and archived for the historical record. The museum’s peace 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.
Permanent and rotating peace-related art exhibitions displaying the work of amateur international and Iranian artists and children's drawings are also housed in the museum complex. Finally, the Iranian secretariat for the international organization Mayors for Peace is housed in the Tehran Peace Museum.
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