Schools : Intl Day of Peace : Together for Peace : Imagine !

International Peace Day 2017

https://www.un.org/en/events/peaceday/

"In times of insecurity, communities that look different become convenient scapegoats,” (...) "We must resist cynical efforts to divide communities and portray neighbours as ‘the other’. Discrimination diminishes us all. It prevents people - and societies - from achieving their full potential.” (...) “Together, let us stand up against bigotry and for human rights. Together, let us build bridges. Together, let us transform fear into hope.”

António Guterres, United Nations Secretary-General 

Each year the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on 21 September. The General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.

https://together.un.org/

The theme for 2017 : "Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for All."

The theme honours the spirit of TOGETHER, a global initiative that promotes respect, safety and dignity for everyone forced to flee their homes and those leaving in search of a better life. 

TOGETHER unites the organizations of the United Nations System, the 193 Member States of the United Nations, the private sector, civil society, academic institutions and individual citizens in a global partnership in support of diversity, non-discrimination and acceptance of refugees and migrants. It was initiated during the United Nations Summit for Refugees and Migrants on 19 September 2016.

credits : Unesco

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/events/

This International Day of Peace celebrates the power of global solidarity for building a peaceful and sustainable world.

The Day highlights solidarity with refugees and migrants and showcase the shared benefits of migration to economies and nations, while also acknowledging legitimate concerns of host communities. Ultimately, it is about bringing people together and reminding them of their common humanity.

Imagine

illustrations: Jean Julien

Yoko Ono Lennon

http://amnestyshop.org.uk/imagine.html

Resources: 

Imagine, a lovely book !

Jean Jullien has illustrated Imagine, the first picture book set to John Lennon’s original lyrics. The book has a foreword by Yoko Ono Lennon and was created in collaboration with Amnesty International to “inspire a new generation to imagine a world at peace”. 

It will be published today, 21 September to coincide with the UN’s International Day of Peace.

Imagine

illustrations: Jean Julien

Yoko Ono Lennon

https://www.designboom.com/art/jean-jullien-imagine-john-lennon-

The book set alongside lyrics from Lennon’s powerful 1971 hit single, whose message is as relevant to society today as it was when it was released. 

Imagine

illustrations: Jean Julien

Yoko Ono Lennon

https://www.designboom.com/art/jean-jullien-imagine-john-lennon-

Values:

The book follows a pigeon “as she sets out on a global journey to spread a message of peace, hope, tolerance and friendship among birds from around the world, of all shapes and sizes”. 

Publisher Frances Lincoln Children’s Books has also released the trailer (below) animating Jean’s charismatic bird characters, showing the pigeon hopping off the tube and going on his travels.

Imagine

illustrations: Jean Julien

Yoko Ono Lennon

https://www.designboom.com/art/jean-jullien-imagine-john-lennon-

There is a website dedicated to the project, also decorated with Jean’s illustrations and created by The Creative Corporation.

The website Imagine allows you, me and students to hear Imagine by John Lennon and to share a message of peace. Students can read some of the messages, including written ones from Richard Curtis and Juliet Stevenson, and illustrated ones by Cressida Cowell and Ross Collins.

Invite your students th share a message of peace. If they can, invite them to buy the book. It's beautiful book.

Price: 

Standard UK delivery: £4.95 or free over £60!

Express UK delivery:  £12

Out UK: £12.99

Imagine

illustrations: Jean Julien

Yoko Ono Lennon

https://www.designboom.com/art/jean-jullien-imagine-john-lennon-

“This book is a beautiful visual version of John Lennon’s cry for peace and harmony. Its message for humanity has never been more urgently needed than now.”

Juliet Stevenson

Education:

"This book is very special to me. The words were written by my husband John and it makes me so happy to see them illustrated in this beautiful book. He wrote Imagine as a song calling for peace around the world. Today, we need peace more than ever, so I think his words are still very important."

Yoko Ono Lennon

Imagine

illustrations: Jean Julien

Yoko Ono Lennon

https://www.designboom.com/art/jean-jullien-imagine-john-lennon-

Activities:

• Read the book in one of your lessons during the week or next week;

• Invite your students to share a message of peace here today or any other day; 

• If they can, invite them to buy the book. It's a good cause;

• Make a collage, draw a picture or write a story with the title ‘Peace’. 

• Invite students to write: Imagining as a bird and drawing what they look like and add to the telephone wire;

• Create your own TOGETHER event and promote the importance of inclusion of refugees and migrants in your school. Visit Together resource page for details;

• Click here to download Amnesty International activities pack which includes helpful discussion questions. 

Imagine

http://www.achuka.co.uk/

There's also info on a poetry competition for 7-11 year olds - Amenesty International is asking entrants to write a poem that captures the different sights, sounds and symbols of freedom. 

Deadline: 1 December 2017

Winners could receive a school visit from a National Poetry Day ambassador and have their poems illustrated by a professional artist! Wow!

"On this International Day of Peace, we must all renew our commitment to global solidarity. To sustain peace, we must build it every day, in every society, with every woman and man, by working together towards a better common future for all."

Irina Bokova, Directore-general UNESCO, message 2017


G-Souto 

21.09.2017

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Civics Education for Peace : Martin Luther King's Day : Resources

Martin Luther King [1929-1968]

Peace Nobel Prize

credits: Getty Images

"Peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold"

Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize lecture

via Google Images Archive

• Martin Luther King Day

Beginning in 1971, cities such as St. Louis, Missouri, and states established annual holidays to honor Martin Luther King. 

On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating a federal holiday to honor Martin Luther King. 

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is the first national holiday named for a modern private citizen. Initially celebrated on this day in 1986, it is now observed in all 50 states.

• Google Doodles:

Google Doodle Martin Luther King Jr. Day

credits: guest artist Cannaday Chapman

https://www.google.com/doodles/

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”

Martin Luther King Jr.

Today the Doodle celebrates the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., Baptist minister, Nobel Laureate, and Civil Rights activist who dedicated his life working tirelessly for peace, social justice, and opportunity for all Americans - irrespective of color or creed.

Google doodles are awesome digital resources for almost every important personality in science, literature, art, human rights, technology.

*Note: The beautiful tradition of Doodles began on August 1998, honors on this day, Martin Luther King, Jr Day. One of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s major themes was unity.

The Doodle by guest artist Cannaday Chapman was also developed in collaboration with the Black Googlers Network (BGN), one of the largest employee resource groups at Google. 

The image depicts a young girl perched on her father’s shoulders, enthralled by the power and eloquence of Dr. King’s words. 

The scene is evocative of Dr. King’s dream for children everywhere to one day live in a better world.

Google Doodle Martin Luther King Day 2017

https://www.google.com/doodles/

In 2017, the Doodle, a watercolor-like depiction of several races and sexes of people holding hands, was vibrant and powerful. It highlighted the achievements of the civil rights leader, whose birthday is honored each year with a national holiday in the US. 

The 2017 Doodle was created by guest artist Keith Mallett, captures one of the major themes of King's speeches and writing: Unity. 

"All life is interrelated," Mallet said. "We are all made to live together." 

*Note: The Doodle also doubled as a promotion for the curated Collection of Civil Rights Photography from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta.

Martin Luther King Jr

credits: Alamy

via University California Press blog

• Martin Luther King Jr. Day:

Monday 16 isn't King's real birthday. King was born January 15. But a federal holiday signed into law in 1983 sets aside the third Monday of each January to observe his birthday.

King's message of nonviolence and love, delivered in magnificent speeches and masterful writing, shaped the American civil rights movement and inspired activists worldwide. 

Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize 1964

credits: The Nobel Foundation Archive

https://www.nobelprize.org/

• Nobel Peace Prize:

Martin L. King Jr was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He adhered to Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence. 

Prize motivation: “for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population”

Martin L. King urged Americans of all races to keep "working toward a world of brotherhood, cooperation, and peace."  

"Martin Luther King dreamt that all inhabitants of the United States would be judged by their personal qualities and not by the color of their skin. 

In April 1968 he was murdered. Four years earlier, he had received the Peace Prize for his nonviolent campaign against racism."

Nobel Peace Prize

Education:

King taught that we are all capable of lighting the way to "the bright daybreak of freedom and justice," and that we can unite to show that "love is the most durable power in the world."

As for Mandela Day, teachers can invite students to take action and inspire change by celebrating Human Rights Day in school, honoring King's message of nonviolence and love. 

Include Civics activities in a cross-curricular plan.

Some possible activities: Students

• Make peace with an unfriend. Get to know someone in the school from a different cultural background and through mutual understanding rid intolerance and xenophobia.

• Read to someone who can't. Visit a local home for old people or for blind people and open up a new world for someone else.

• Help someone at the supermarket, on the street or someone who is a bit lost in the city or can't find the right bus, for example.

• Visit an hospital and speak to ill people or ill children. Take a little time to have a chat and bring some sunshine into their lives.

• Grab blankets that you no longer need from home and give them to homeless people.

• Help out at a local animal shelter. Dogs and cats without homes still need a walk or a bit of love.

• Make a Peace concert at school by writing some lyrics about peace, social inclusion and adjusting to a tune that students love. Invite parents and the local community to listen it.

• Deliver computer literacy workshops to older people in school (grandparents, neighbors,  community).

Literacy is probably the most important skill for an individual to acquire and develop. An empowerment tool that gives access to further education and new opportunities. 

IT skills complete the education of all in our days. However, Unity is one of the most important values to pledge.

• Resources:

The High Museum is one of the only venues to see a significant collection of photos from the Civil Rights movement. 

Over 300 photos paint a picture of various moments in Civil Rights history like Rosa Park's arrest and the multitude of social protests.

Nobel Peace Prize: Martin Luther King Jr Lessons: facts, biography, Nobel lecture, acceptance speech.

Remembering Martin Luther King on Nobel Prize website:

“To this undaunted champion of peace the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament has awarded the Peace Prize for the year 1964”

Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent campaign against racism.

• Games:

Peace Builders Minecraft:

This new immersive Minecraft map and learning experience is an opportunity for students to meet four more Nobel Peace Prize laureates and learn how these changemakers address conflict around the world.

Minecraft Peace Builders 

credits: Nobel Peace Center 

https://www.nobelpeacecenter.org/

Minecraft Peace Builders. The Minecraft Peace Builders Game is inspired by the Nobel Peace Prize and the lives and accomplishments of four Nobel Laureates. Each of them has taken a different path to work for a more peaceful world.

What does Peace mean to your students? More importantly, how can they contribute to making it a reality?

Values: In this game, the students will learn and be inspired to learn more about how they can work towards a better world.

Find out what it takes to craft peace! Follow the stories of four Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and Alfred Nobel as you help them avoid and mitigate conflict around the world.

Peace Builders is available for all Minecraft Education users in 29 languages. 

Download Minecraft Education for a free trial and explore free online Minecraft 101 training.

Download here

Available platforms: 

Windows; Mac; Chromebook or Android; iPhone/iPad.

Nobel Peace Prize encourage teachers to use the lessons in the way that best fits their needs. Use part of them or all of them, use them in class, or have students use them independently.

Imagine

illustrations: Jean Julien

https://imaginepeacebook.com/

• Books:

Teachers have the lovely book Imagine by French illustrator Jean Jullien. He has illustrated Imagine, the first picture book set to John Lennon’s original lyrics. 

Jean Jullien has illustrated this picture book titled ‘Imagine‘ - a story set alongside lyrics from Lennon’s powerful 1971 hit single, whose message is as relevant to society today as it was when it was released. The book follows the journey of a pigeon as she sets out to spread hope and tolerance across the world.

The book has a foreword by Yoko Ono Lennon and was created in collaboration with Amnesty International to “inspire a new generation to imagine a world at peace”. 

Languages: 4 languages for 7 countries.

Activities: Read more here

*Peace Dove Game: 

The game was include in my original publication (16.01.2017) by a suggestion of the Nobel Peace Prize website. 

Note: The game has been discontinued. 

Peace Doves game

https://www.nobelprize.org/educational/

Peace Doves Game: Invite your younger students to play the Nobel Peace Dove game to disarm the world with the help of peace doves.

Students have eight 'Peace Doves', each able to disarm one of the eight countries possessing nuclear weapons. They try the game and learn more about nuclear disarmament.

The game takes place in space, and features doves with names like "Lady Juliet," "Dolores," and "Peggy Sue." 

The introduction makes is redolent of the opening of "Star Wars" with on-screen text scrolling up, before asking, "Are you Ready?"

Promoted on the homepage, the online game resides in the Educational section of the Nobel Prize website.

*Note: Peace Doves Game was discontinued on Nobel Prize website on the Educational resources page.

"The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

G-Souto

16.01.2017
update: 15.01.2024

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