The chemical bombing of the village of Zardeh in western Iran was one of the most shocking criminal acts of Saddam Hussein’s regime during the Iran-Iraq war.

The bombing took place on July 22nd, launched an attack with mustard gas and nerve agents. Amongst the targeted were defenseless villagers and pilgrims in the vicinity for a religious ceremony. Of the 275 were killed, around 1500 were injured gardens of the village barren. These figures do not include the casualties incurred by pilgrims in the area.

This is a reminder that the online registration for INMP’s Peace Philanthropy Symposium has opened!

Peace Philanthropy Symposium is an international symposium to celebrate the centenary of the Peace Palace in The Hague, the gift of Andrew Carnegie; and also for celebrating Peace Philanthropy and Furthering Peace Education - In the Footsteps of Andrew Carnegie.

The Symposium is organized by the INMP (International Network of Museums for Peace) in cooperation with the Peace Palace / Carnegie Foundation; and will be held on 2 & 3 September 2013 in The Hague, Netherlands.

Please find more info and the Peace Philanthropy Symposium Program and registration form on INMP website, via the link below:

http://inmp.net/index.php/2013/113-peace-philanthropy-symposium

A delegation of Iranian teachers from the Peace Education group of the Tehran Peace Museum visited Hiroshima, Japan, under the auspices of a Japanese peace NGO and the Hiroshima Bureau of Education. In this one week visit, the Iranian delegation met with Japanese teachers, directors, and school officials. The Iranian teachers also visited several schools and educational centers and became acquainted with the methods of peace education in Japan. This teachers’ delegation discussed common grounds of exchange with educational directors in Hiroshima.

 On 28 June 2013 the Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force for Somalia, making it the 189th State Party to the treaty. This has reduced to seven the number of States that have not yet joined the CWC.

(Angola, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Egypt, Israel, Myanmar, South Sudan, Syria)

Victims of chemical weapons in Iran, welcome this development as another significant step toward achieving universality of the Convention and thereby strengthening global peace and security.

For more details click here

http://www.opcw.org/somalia-becomes-189th-state-party-to-the-chemical-weapons-convention

The launch ceremony for the “Art for Peace” website, synchronized with the beginning of the second phase of the Art for Peace project, was held in Tehran Peace Museum on Tuesday 2 July 2013 at 4-5 pm.

Since the inception of the Tehran Peace Museum, the Art for Peace project has been one of the fundamental programs of the Museum. With the aim of creating a dialogue between artists and peace activists, the Art for Peace’s first phase included exhibitions and festivals for the public. The second phase of the project, the website, provides a sustainable online forum to introduce, engage, and create networks between artists and peace activists.

In the launch ceremony of the website, the Museum was host to established artists such as Dr. Mohit Tabatabaei, Director of Iranian ICOM (International Council of Museums), Mr. Ali Merikhi, a famous caricaturist, as well as emerging artists interested in working on peace. The ceremony included discussions about the ways in which art can be an effective medium in promoting cultures of peace.

Artists and interested individuals can refer to this website and become a member to join the network of the volunteers of the Art for Peace projects.

To see the photos of this event please click here.

Art for Peace website:  http://art.tpm.ir    http://art.tehranpeacemuseum.org

On the occasion of “National day for commemoration of victims of Chemical Weapons” and the anniversary of “Saradsht” chemical attack, a memorial ceremony was held in Tehran Peace Museum on Saturday 29 June 2013. Citizens, journalists, UN agencies representatives, CW victims and their families, NGOs members and activists, officials, artists, as well as the TPM members and volunteers were among the participants of the ceremony.

Apart from the ceremony, on this day, at Tehran Peace Museum several CW victims - most of them are volunteer guides of the museum – hosted visitors to share their experience with them and to raise awareness about the consequences of Chemical Weapons, from 9 am to 4pm.

To see the photos of this event please click here.

On the occasion of “National day for commemoration of victims of Chemical Weapons” and the anniversary of “Saradsht” chemical attack, there will be an opportunity for all citizens / Journalists to meet with survivors of chemical warfare and listen to their eye witness accounts.

On Saturday 29 June2013, at Tehran Peace Museum several CW victims - most of them are volunteer guides of the museum – will host visitors to share their experience with them and to raise awareness about the consequences of Chemical Weapons.

Those who are interested to meet with them and listen to their eye witness accounts are invited to join us on 29 June from 9 am to 4 pm.

on the sideline of the event there will be a ceremony to commemorate those who lost their lives due to chemical weapons attacks during Iran-Iraq war.

For further information please contact us on : ( +98 21)66756945

Mr. Cees J. Kole, Ambassador of the Netherlands, together with the First Secretary, Mr. John van der Zende, visited the TPM on 19 June 2013.

Following his visit and during a meeting with museum's staff and volunteers, Ambassador Kole mentioned that: Tehran Peace Museum is more than a museum; it is an educational center to promote culture of peace.

During the meeting, chemical warfare survivors, who volunteer for TPM, expressed their wish for world peace and talked about their relationship with the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons -OPCW- in the Netherlands, and thanked the Dutch government as the first country to conducted Trial for the companies and individuals who helped Sadam's regime in producing and usage of chemical weapons.

To see the photos of this event click here.

The 5th issue of the INMP -International Network of Museums for Peace - newsletter was published in May 2013.

In this issue, there is a full page coverage of some of the activities of Tehran Peace Museum.

Download the newsletter in PDF from here to know more about programs and activities of INMP and the museum for peace around the world.

A sister-ship agreement between Tehran Peace Museum and Halabja Monument/ Museum was signed in Tehran on Monday 10 June 2013.

Tehran Peace Museum (located in Tehran, Iran) and Halabja Monument Museum (located in Halabja, Iraqi Kurdistan) are the only museums in the world to address the chemical warfare and its consequences and have guides who are survivors of chemical warfare.

According to this agreement, the two museums will share experiences, have joint cultural- artistic or research projects, exchange experts and will cooperate on recording the chemical weapons victims testimonies as the oral history.

One of the main goals of both museums is to promote culture of peace through raising awareness about the consequences of war and to prevent repeat of such disasters.

To see the photos of this event click here.

To download the agreement's text, click here.