Message of Tehran Peace Museum for International Peace Day
This year, we commemorate the International Day of Peace while millions of people around the world are suffering from war and violence and its aftermath.
This does not mean that our efforts for peace are in vain and that peace is not achievable, it is indeed achievable and today more than ever we need to promote a culture of peace.
That is why we are gathered here in the Peace Museum on the International Day of Peace, to recall that we all belong to each other, regardless of political boundaries that separate nations from each other.
As the 13th century Iranian poet Saadi said: we are all from one essence.
Let’s think about similarities instead of differences, love instead of hate, forgiveness instead of revenge, dialogue instead of confrontation and peace instead of violence.
Let’s give peace a chance!
21 September: International Peace Day ceremony was held in Tehran Peace Museum
On Sunday 21 September, an observance for the International Peace Day was held in Tehran Peace Museum.
Many NGO representatives, activists, young people, artists, war survivors as well as representatives of International organizations attended the ceremony.
The Ceremony started by reading the message of Tehran Peace Museum by a war victim and the director of the Tehran Peace Museum, Mr. MohamadReza Taghipour.
During the program, Mr. Ban Ki moon's message was read by UNIC’s National Information Officer, Mr. Mohamad Rajaei Moghadam; and then speech by Ms. Esther Kuisch Laroche, the director and representative of UNESCO Cluster Office in Tehran, delivered. Other speakers of this program were Mr. Seyed Mohamad Khatami, former president, and the UN resident coordinator in Iran, Mr. Gary Lewis.
One minute silence to commemorate the victims of war, and dedicating flowers to the participants were other parts of the program. Visiting the museum and the exhibitions there were side events of this program. To see photos of the ceremony click here.
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL MESSAGE ON THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE
21 September 2014
Today is the International Day of Peace.
Each year, on this day, the United Nations calls for a global ceasefire.
We ask combatants to put down their arms so all can breathe the air of peace.
Armed conflict causes untold grief to families, communities and entire countries.
Too many are suffering today at the brutal hands of warmongers and terrorists.
Let us stand with them in solidarity.
Peace and security are essential foundations for social progress and sustainable development.
Speech by Ms. Esther Kuisch Laroche, Director and Representative, UNESCO Cluster Office in Tehran
on the occasion of International Day of Peace (21 September 2014)
Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen,
The International Day of Peace reflects the innermost aspiration of all peoples to live together, free and equal in dignity and rights. The theme of 2014 is the “right of peoples to peace”, selected to mark the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace by the United Nations.
The right to peace is of the utmost importance in view of the violence that is currently tearing the world apart. To build peace, we must understand the new realities of war today, and the way in which both human lives and identities are under attack in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere, in violence that aims to strike at the cultural and religious values of peoples.
UNESCO's message for International Peace Day
Message from Ms Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of the International Day of Peace, 21 September 2014.
The International Day of Peace reflects the innermost aspiration of all peoples to live together, free and equal in dignity and rights. The theme of 2014 is the “right of peoples to peace”, selected to mark the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration on the Right of Peoples to Peace by the United Nations.
The Exhibition of “i can Painting Cards” on International Peace Day
Title: PEACE & I CAN
Goal: Converting the bombs into the peaceful objects
By: Iranians who are interested in peace
Location: Tehran Peace Museum
Date: 20 Sep. 2014
Exhibition is free to visit to the public from 20 to 24 Sep 2014
The selected cards will be presented in the i can website: www.icanw.org
Second Model UN/UN Security Council simulation at Tehran Peace Museum
The second UN Security Council simulation (UN Model) was held at Tehran Peace Museum on 18 September 2014. It was co-organized by the International Studies Journal (ISJ) in cooperation with UNIC (United Nations Information Center). More than 30 graduate and post graduate students of international relations and law as well as political science from different universities from across Iran participated in the simulation which addressed the issue ofthe situation in Ukraine.
Tehran –Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammad JavadZarif said here that from the Islamic Republic of Iran’s point of view, organizing simulations – in particular the Model United Nations Security Council practice – is very important and useful.
To see the photos of this event, please click here.
Director of UNESCO Cluster Office in Tehran visited the Peace Museum
Ms. Esther Kuish-Laroche, new director and representative of UNESCO Tehran Cluster Office visited the Tehran Peace Museum on September 3, 2014. “Today, all we hear in the media is about the number of people who are being killed or injured in the conflicts “she said in a meeting with TPM’s volunteers including CW victims. “But we should remember that each one of them are a unique individual with a unique life”.
Then Ms. Kuish-Laroche explained about UNESCO various activities regarding Culture, Education and Science and she added that Iran has a very good contribution in these fields.
At the end of the meeting, Ms. Kuish-Laroche and TPM volunteers discussed their common fields of action and agreed to conduct joint programs in the future in order to improve the culture of peace. To see the photos of this event please click here.
Conclusion of a MOC between Tehran Peace Museum and Ministry of Sport and Youth
A delegation from the ministry of sport and youth visited Tehran peace museum on 31 August 2014.
During a joint session, the representatives of the ministry of Sport and youth and TPM members explained their approaches and steps towards the promotion of the culture of peace and discussed future cooperation on studying and enhancing peace and youth linkage.
In order t o analyze such area and to achieve the goal of establishment of youth parliament a MOC was signed between TPM and MSY to launch scientific relations and exchanges.
To see the photos of this event, please click here.
Tehran Peace Museum / SCWVS delegation met with Mayor of Hiroshima
From August 3 to 8, a delegation of the Tehran Peace Museum and Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support (SCWVS) from Iran visited Hiroshima and met with President Matsui, Mayor of Hiroshima on August 7. The Tehran Peace Museum, founded by the SCWVS, conducted an active campaign to invite Iranian mayors to join Mayors for Peace and successfully achieved a 270 city increase of the number of member cities in Iran in the past one-year period.
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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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