Happy New Year from your friends in the Tehran Peace Museum

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 Dear friends,
 
Happy New Year! We wish you a nice and peaceful year ahead!
 
May love be in our life, may hope be in our heart, may peace be in our world... .

Peace seeds in the National Botanical Garden

Green-LegacyThe seeds of the Ginkgo are our guests again; and Iran’s National Botanical Garden, with the guidance and presence of one of the volunteers of the Tehran Peace Museum, is the host. They are the seeds of Hiroshima's Ginkgo tree, collected in 2015 from the mother tree located in Shukkeien Garden less than 1.5 kilometers from the hypocenter of the atomic bomb attack (1945). 

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"Peace Counts" exhibition and workshops in Tehran's universities

Cover-Persian-newsFaculty of Law and Political Sciences of Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran hosted the "Peace Counts" exhibition on 13-20 December, 2015. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Tehran Peace Museum on the occasion of the National Research Week. 

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The 13th issue of the INMP newsletter is published

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The 13th issue of the INMP (International Network of Museums for Peace) Newsletter (November 2015) is recently published and is now available on the following link.

 

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The TPM's representatives attend the 20th Conference of State Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention

CSP-20The 20th Conference of State Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) was held from 30 November to 4 December 2015 in the Hague, the Netherlands. Two representatives of the Tehran Peace Museum and the Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support (SCWVS) were among the participants and attended some of the plenary sessions of the conference and the CWC coalition's meetings as well as the side events.

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Making a warm winter by donating clothes

Clothing-DonationTehran Peace Museum (TPM) in collaboration with Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, University of Tehran and Ehsan Charity gathered donated clothes which were gently used or new from, individuals for donating to in need all ages and genders.

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Iranian physician as a recipient of the Second Annual "OPCW-The Hague Award"

csm OPCW-The Hague AwardAccording to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Dr. Mahdi Balali-Mood, an Iranian national, who is an expert toxicologist and has dedicated his career to the treatment of victims of chemical warfare agents; is one of the recipients of the Second Annual "OPCW-The Hague Award”. Professor Balali-Mood has jointly won the prize with Dr. Alastair Hay of the United Kingdom.

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TPM representatives delivered a petition on “Mecca Disaster” to UN

Mena-2015Few days after the “Mecca Disaster” (24 September) in which hundreds of pilgrims, including Iranians, died as a result of an incident; The Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds in collaboration with the Tehran Peace Museum (TPM) launched a campaign to express the concerns over the incident in a peaceful way.

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From Clouds of Chemical Warfare to Blue Skies of Peace

Peace-educationThe October 2015 edition of the Journal of Peace Education has been released and includes the article From Clouds of Chemical Warfare to Blue Skies of Peace, which was co-authored by Dr. Shahriar Khateri and Elizabeth Lewis.

This article charts the origins, rationale and development to date of the Tehran Peace Museum (TPM).

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The seminar on “Legal Aspects of Anfal Operation” in the TPM

anfal-newsThe seminar on “Legal Aspects of Anfal Operation” was held in the Tehran Peace Museum (TPM) in October 28th, 2015. In this seminar, Dr. Asa’ad Ardalan and Dr. Seyed Ghasem Zamani discussed this issue, after Mr. Shayan Seyed Ahmadi presented a summary of his M.A dissertation for his post graduate studies in International Law with the same topic. Representatives of Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq (KRG) were among the participants.

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Focus on Survivors' Involvement

Focus on Survivors' Involvement

"Their burnt eyes and their coughs express their suffering more eloquently than any words"

While visiting the Hiroshima Peace Museum the founders of the Tehran Peace Museum realized the necessity of involving the victims of war in the creation of the museum. Only these individuals could provide credible accounts of the harsh realities of war and their correlating desire for peace.

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What is a Peace Museum?

What is a Peace Museum?

When you first hear of a "Peace museum" you may be slightly mystified or perhaps even a bit skeptical. It is easy to imagine what goes into a war museum but what can you put in a peace museum? And if the peace movement is to be represented in a museum does that mean it is being relegated to the past? 

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The Tehran Peace Museum

The Tehran Peace Museum

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. It coordinates a peace education program that holds workshops and hosts conferences on the culture of peace, reconciliation, international humanitarian law, disarmament and peace advocacy.

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Founding the Iranian Peace Museum

Founding the Iranian Peace Museum

Its founding began with a conversation between the founder of the Tehran-based Society for Chemical Weapons Victims support (SCWVS) and a coordinator for the international Peace Museums Network in 2005. This, as well as a visit to Hiroshima, Japan by members of SCWVS a year before, prompted the desire for a museum in Tehran.

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