Title: Imagine
1Imagine
2Peace to your
- Home
- School
- Town
- Country
- Between Nations
3A woman had a vision
A place where her grand children could learn
about Peace
4The Outside View
5The view from the Peace Room
The outside view of the Peace Room as drawn in
the Peace Room minutes
6Side view of Peace Room as it is today
7View from the Peace Room
8Peace Room plan
9The Rainbow Bookshelves
- Contained short accounts of the lives of
constructive workers in the world. - These were called World Contributors as they
were people who had contributed to the world in
some way.
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11What happened in the Peace Room?
- Children visited
- Someone acted as Chair person
- Visitors nominated people they thought should be
called a World Contributor - All present debated whether the nominee was
worthy - If they agreed, the person was put in a book on
the bookshelf
12The lady who made the Peace Room kept Minutes of
the meetings.
13World Contributors
- Elizabeth Fry prison reformer
- Grace Darling first lifeboat rescue
- Thomas Edison invented the electric light
- Dr Simpson helped develop chloroform
- Dr Barnardo cared for homeless children
- James Mackenzie heart specialist
- Akhenaton Pharaoh united lower and upper
Egypt
14World Citizens
- Many of the nominees were true World Citizens,
working across nations for peace. - But nominees were not always accepted.
15Who was refused nomination?
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Adolf Hitler
- Why?
16Who would YOU nominate?
- Someone famous?
- Someone you know?
- Someone who has had a real influence?
- Take a few minutes to think about who you want to
put in the Peace Room. - A real World Contributor?
17This meeting now in session
18My nomination
- The old woman with the spade whose vision made
this happen.
19Impact of the Peace Room
- By 1945 there were many books on the Peace Room
bookshelf. They painted a Rainbow above it. - Traditionally the ends of a rainbow point to
pots of money. This rainbow pointed not to gold
or material wealth but to things of spiritual and
ethical value.
20Impact continued
- By 1946 news of the Peace Room had reached adults
working for Peace in Philadelphia USA (Paul
Fischer). - In 1952 someone present at the International
Peace Congress in Vienna wrote a letter to the
Peace Room members telling them about the
conference.
21The Virtual Peace Room
- The Peace Room has now been put on the internet
so that everyone can visit it. - http//www.worldecitizens.net/wecitizens/peace_roo
m - Lets have a look
- We have made the people who have a place in the
Peace Room e-citizens electronic global
citizens. - And every person who has their biography put on
the web page will receive e-citizenship too.
22What next?
- Think about who YOU want to nominate.
- Someone who could be considered as World
e-citizens? - What information would we need to know?
- Do they have to be famous?
- Write a biography of the person YOU think should
have a place in the Peace Room
23Your Nomination
- Write about your nomination. Who is it? Tell us
about their life. Important dates and happenings
in their life. Make sure all the facts are
correct! - Tell us what they have done to deserve
e-citizenship? How have they contributed to the
world? - You can put pictures in about them (with their
permission of course!)
24And then
- Put your nomination into electronic format (Word)
You can include a picture if you want with the
persons permission - Go to the Peace Room website http//www.worldecit
izens.net/wecitizens/peace_room - Click on the table to submit a nomination
- Register, and copy and paste your nomination,
then click on Submit - Click on the chair to vote.
- Read other peoples nominations.
- Vote for the one you think should have a place in
the Peace Room.
25The End
26Quotes
- P10
- I believe they like the idea of a Peace Room,
and I hope they will help me to build it up into
something beautiful, and lasting, and strong!
(Madge to Old Woman with Spade) - P33 Then I hope the influence from the
bookshelves will gradually envelope their minds
their actions their outer and inner lives
27Quotes 2
- P77 Countries also get cross and unhappy because
they need something they cannot find in their own
lands. Perhaps they want coal, oil or gold, or
more land on which to grow crops to feed their
people. - Then they try to take these things from other
nations and there is war and nothing can be more
wicked or senseless than throwing bombs at each
other and killing little children and their
mummies.
28Quotes 3
- P107 Peace on earth and good will to all men.
- Have you ever thought how many millions of
people have repeated those words millions of
times during the last 20 centuries? And how far
they have brought us to eliminating war and
violence? The message is sound, but have our ears
become immune to their meaning? May practical
suggestions succeed where sentimental phrases
have failed? Should not sentiment develop into
principles which, like foundation stones, should
be strong enough to carry any weight placed upon
them?
29Quotes 4
- P70
- How is a big ant heap built?
- By hundreds of thousands of ants, each carrying
a tiny load, I suppose. - And every load, however small, is well worth
while even great men and women rise on steps
built by others. Some of the steps were made
hundreds, even thousands of years ago. - Dont many names become indistinct and are
forgotten? - Perhaps, but the joy of having helped to make a
step, however small, will always remain
30Enter Citizens of the World Motto-
- P72 I will do my best to understand and remove
the cause of any trouble that may arise in my
home, my school, my town or my country. - This will lead to peace at home, in school, town
and country leading to International
understanding, tolerance and peace.
31The Peace Song
Stop up well! We are working for peace As we all
go marching along. A great ideal were determined
to build, On foundations both lasting and
strong. Wholl join us? Well not rest till all
Nations agree To a system thats just and
strong, Then free from care, race-hatred and
fear, We will all go marching along!