Imagine Peace Group
Imagine all the people, living life in peace.
These words of peace and hope were penned by John Lennon more than 30 years ago.
The Imagine Peace group assembles the peace keepers, peace makers and people for peace...your friends, family, neighbors, teachers, clergy and more.
Lensmasters with Peace related lenses are invited to join the Imaging Peace Group and help create a circle of peace that surrounds the world.
I hope someday you'll join us...
Welcome to the Imagine Peace Group
An invitation to all lensmasters who are the peace keepers, peace makers, peace promoters and peace lovers and to those pro peace involved with peace movements.The Imagine Peace Group is looking for lenses about:
1. Peace, peace projects, peace products and peace lyrics.
2. People who inspired peace movements - Martin Luther King, Mother Teresa, Ghandi, John Lennon
3. Organizations and projects promoting peace
4. Peace Promotion Ideas
5. Teaching Children about Peace
6. How to become more peaceful yourself
Please be sure when you submit a lens that the lens mentions "Peace" or "Imagine" in the text.
Join the Imagine Peace Group
Joining the group is simple.1. Click under the "Join Our Group!" under "Add an existing lens or if you need to "Make a New Lens."
2. Once you've joined the group, be sure to include the Imagine Peace Group as a module on the page that you've submitted.
This can be done in three ways:
Featured Lens Module - Enter the link for the Imaging Peace group http://www.squidoo.com/groups/imagine-peace into the featured lens module.
Text/Write Module - Grab a Imagine Peace graphic (around the world, or the tall blue Imagine Peace) and include your own text.
Link Module - Add a link to http://www.squidoo.com/groups/imagine-peace
Imagine Peace - An Excellent Group
Mother Teresa on Pro Peace

- I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations.
I said that I will never do that,
but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.
Mother Theresa (1910-1997)
Image Source: Mary Mediatrix.Blessed Mother Teresa. Creative Commons. Some Rights Reserved. Public Photo.
International Day of Peace Featured Lenses
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International Day Of Peace
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Established in 1981 by the United Nations, this special day is set aside for all nations and all people to observe a 24 hour cease-fire. In 2001 this day became a fixed day. A tradition for this day is to observe a minute of silence at noon. Find ou...
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International Day of Peace - September 21, 2008
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Since 1981 the United Nations and people around the world have celebrated the International Day of Peace. This holiday was established for "commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace within and among all nations and people." Since 2001 Sept...
Celebrate International Day of Peace - EveryDay

Imagine Peace Through Meditation
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Meditation Can Change Your Life
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Meditation for beginner to expert practitioners works best when attempted in silence and can offer some golden moments for reflection. Additional benefits include inner peace, reduction of anxiety, creativity and slowing or reversal of aging. Achievi...
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Ten minute meditation
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When you can't drop everything and take a walk in the woods, this exercise can give you instant relief. You can do it anywhere. Use it when tensions rise in a meeting. It will calm you and help you focus on the task at hand. Take ten after work befor...
Meet Some of the Imagine Peace Group Lensmasters
Imagine Peace People Featured Lenses
Prominent people involved in the Peace Movement.
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr
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American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King’s challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s help...
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta Quotes, Biography, Facts, Letters, Accomplishments, Faith, and more.
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her humanitarian work. In 2003, six years after her death, Mother Teresa began a passage to saintho...
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Pope Benedict XVI
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Pope Benedict XVI, born 1927, pope since 2005, the first German pope since Victor II, who died in 1057, and the first noted scholar in theology to be elected pope since Benedict XIV in 1740. An unusually knowledgeable and influential Vatican official...
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Juan Mann (One Man)
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Juan Mann is perhaps better known to millions of YouTube Viewers as the "Free Hugs Guy." He has chosen to use the identity of "one man" and wants remain anonymous in his desire to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their...
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Coretta Scott King
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Wife of assassinated civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and mother of four. Influential in the civil right movement of the 1960s, Coretta Scott King remained active until her death in 2006.
More Imagine Peace People Featured Lenses
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Willie Nelson ?
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Willie Nelson is the red headed stranger and he has been a major force in country music since the 1960's. Singer, songwriter, actor, peace activist, philanthropist - he is all these things. He has also been a musical influence in my life...
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Marianne Williamson - Superhero, Spiritual Activist
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Marianne Williamson is a best-selling author, lecturer, a Spiritual Activist and the Founder of the Peace Alliance, a citizen action organization representing a growing constituency for peace. For spearheading the Campaign for a Department of Peace...
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Biography of Mahatma Gandhi
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Mohandas K. Gandhi, who is best known to the world as Mahatma Gandhi, led the movement to free India from British rule, and was one of the world's greatest advocates of nonviolent resistance. He was was nominated five times for the Nobel Peace Prize...
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Bono (Paul David Hewson)
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For charming, bulling and morally blackmailed the leaders of the world's richest countries into forgiving $40 billion in debt owed by the poorest, Bono was named Person of the Year by Time Magazine in 2005. For his ability to make people listen and...
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994), wife of the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Admired for her elegance and taste while in the White House, she won further admiration for her courage following the assassination of h...
More Imagine Peace People Featured Lenses
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Annie Besant, teacher, lecturer, secularist and theosophist...
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Minister's wife, student of medicine, raised a prophet, reformer, secularist and more. Annie Besant (1847-1933) was many things in her lifetime - and living in the 19th and early 20th century, all of those things were revolutionary for a woman to be...
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The 14th Dalai Lama: Tibetan leader in exile
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Nobel Peace Prize Winner, popularizer of Buddhism and head of the Tibetan Government in Exile. The Dalai Lama's life is a unique convergence of religion, politics and an admirable stand on peace in the face of aggression. This lens focuses on his l...
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Thich Nhat Hanh: Peace and Zen Buddhism
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Monk and Vietnamese peace activist turned Zen Meditation teacher. Thich Nhat Hanh is an Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk. He is a teacher, author, and peace activist, born in central Vietnam in 1926. He coined the term Engaged Buddhism in his book Vietna...
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Karen Armstrong: author, former nun and religious inspiration
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Karen Armstrong is the embodiment of religious tolerance and spiritual transformation. A former Roman Catholic Nun, she got disillusioned about religion. A visit to Jerusalem rekindled her love for religion and she turned to writing books about the...
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His Holiness The Dalai Lama
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama is the head of the Galugpa order of Buddhism which is one of 4 lineages in Tibetan Buddhism. The others are Kagyu, Sakya, Ningyma, and some people include Bonpo. Dalai Lama is the leader of Tibetan Buddhism. H...
Imagine Peace Gifts and Items on Cafe Press
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Imagine Peace Group and Cafe Press Gift Items
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Imagine all the people, living life in peace. These words of peace and hope were penned by John Lennon more than 30 years ago. The Imagine Peace Group and Related Imagine Peace Products, featured in the Imagine Peace Now store, carries on the legac...
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Imagine Peace & Love Gifts for Mom, Dad, Kids and More
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Looking for a special gift for your Mom, Mother or Mum? How about one for your Dad, Father or Daddy? Why not choose one that spreads the message of peace and love? Inspired by Imagine Peace and Valentine's Day, the Imagine Peace - Imagine Love Store...
Imagine Peace Squid
A Peace carrying Squid or Squid for Peace the Squid Mascot for the Imagine Peace group.The Squid for Peace can be found on the More Squidoodles lens.
The Latest Imagine Peace Lenses
The latest, newest Imagine Peace lenses.
International Day of Peace - September 21, 2008, International Day Of Peace, "Oh Say Can We See",...The Crane Project, Inner Peace, Real Peace, Now, Phil Ochs
Peace Begins Within

- Keep the peace within yourself,
then...
bring peace to others.
Thomas à Kempis
German Theologian
Photo: Modified Microsoft Image.
Imagine Peace Tower Featured Lens
The Lens that Inspired the Imagine Peace Group, Yoko Ono's Imagine Peace Tower.
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Imagine Peace Tower - Celebrating Peace on John Lennon's Birthday
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October 9th 2007 on would have been John Lennon's 67th birthday, Yoko Ono unveiled the Imagine Peace Tower on Videy Island in Reykjavik, Iceland as a way of encouraging global peace. The Imagine Peace Tower is dedicated to her late husband, John Lenn...
The Newest Imagine Peace Lensmasters
The latest, newest Imagine Peace lensmasters.
Imagine....Imagine Peace Featured Lyric Lens
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Imagine - Remembering John Lennon 1940 - 1980
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John Lennon's anthem of peace and hope has been one of my favorite songs since college. This is a collection of many different versions of one of the greatest songs of peace of all times "Imagine." News of his sudden death in 1980 came during finals...
More Imagine Peace Group Lensmasters
Imagine Peace - Surrounding the World
Imagine all the people...Image Source: Kirsti A. Dyer. Modified Microsoft Image. Imagine Peace Around the World. From the Imaging Peace Tower Lens.
Imagine Peace Featured Nobel Peace Prize Winner Lenses
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The Elders - The Global Elders
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The idea for the Global elders started in 1999 with a conversation between Peter Gabriel and Richard Branson. Their idea of The Elders was to create a new gathering of world leaders who will come together to guide and support our "global village." F...
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta Quotes, Biography, Facts, Letters, Accomplishments, Faith, and more.
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta, a Roman Catholic nun, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, and recipient of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her humanitarian work. In 2003, six years after her death, Mother Teresa began a passage to saintho...
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Al Gore - Superhero
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Apparently there was a greater mission in life for Al Gore than becoming President in 2000. Now as Nobel Peace Prize winner, Academy Award winner, bestselling author, activist and political icon, Al Gore has become one of the most respected and influ...
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Dr Martin Luther King Jr
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American clergyman and Nobel Prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King’s challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s help...
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The 14th Dalai Lama: Tibetan leader in exile
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Nobel Peace Prize Winner, popularizer of Buddhism and head of the Tibetan Government in Exile. The Dalai Lama's life is a unique convergence of religion, politics and an admirable stand on peace in the face of aggression. This lens focuses on his l...
More Imagine Peace Promoting Projects Featured Lenses
More Peace Promoting Projects and Concepts.
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One World For Peace Survey Projects
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Can War Really Be The Answer For One World For Peace? From The Desk of Cris Delgado Sedona, AZ 2008 Dear International Community of Internet Friends, When I awake each morning I hold a very strong urge in my heart to bringing about one world for p...
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The Peace Place
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World Peace Emerging is our website where we tell the stories of people saving the world. What is peace? Disarmament is not Peace. I believe peace is people working together to care for one another and our planet.
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Village of Ordinary
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What if ... every child grew up feeling wanted, loved and completely supported by family and community? What if ... we could all do work that gave us joy? What if ... we were so full of love ourselves that we viewed all other beings with compass...
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"Click to End Poverty"
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Unlike conventional charity organizations World Peace Emerging.com puts you at the front lines armed with your dollar so that you can watch it work. Whether it’s saving an American from starvation, getting a forty cent vaccination to an infant...
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Girl Powered Peace
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It is now universally agreed in aid organizations worldwide that empowering the women of a community will empower the children and the men as well. Women are caretakers and nurturers, watching over others. They tend to use practical wisdom to make de...
Imagine Peace Ideas to Teach Peace to Children
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Racism and children
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Children are not, by nature, racist. They are not born with damaging assumptions about people in any definable group. We all begin with a winning trust in others, an expectation that people will be good to each other, and that life with others will b...
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The Wish Tree - A Wish for Peace for AnyDay
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The Wish Tree is a lovely concept to create for your family at the holidays or anyday. Everyone writes down their wishes and then hangs the wishes on the Wish Tree. Since the 1990's the Wish Tree has been a part of many peace-promoting art exhi...
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Peace Crane - Origami Paper Cranes for Peace
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Paper cranes have been used a symbol of peace since the second world war. In the 1950's a young girl Sadako Sasaki, a survivor of the Hiroshima bombing, but a victim of atom bomb disease (leukemia), hoped to fold 1,000 cranes to grant her wish while...
Books for Children on Imagining Peace
A Collection of Books for children on Peace.
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Can You Say Peace? by Karen Katz
Children everywhere wish for peace
International Pe more...0 points
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The Peace Book by Todd Parr
Today everyone is talking about peace. But how do more...0 points
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We Share One World by Jane E. Hoffelt
Children are never too young to begin exploring th more...0 points
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Paths to Peace: People Who Changed the World: People Who Changed the World by Jane Breskin Zalben
With a stirring quote set within a stunning and in more...0 points
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P is for Peace Garden: A North Dakota Alphabet Edition 1. (Discover America State By State. Alphabet Series) by Roxane Salonen
Illustrated by: Joanna Yardley
Our continuing alpha more...0 points
Our continuing alphabet journey takes us to North Dakota, the home to such wide-eyed wonders as bison, mosasaurs and the Red River.
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From a Distance: 2 by Julie Gold, Jane Ray
Julie Gold's Grammy-winning song "From a Dist more...0 points
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When I Grow Up, I Will Win the Nobel Peace Prize by Isabel Pin
The boy in this book is having trouble admitting - more...0 points
Books on Teaching Imagine Peace
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life In more...0 points
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Why War Is Never a Good Idea by Alice Walker
Poet and activist Alice Walker personifies the pow more...0 points
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How Children Understand War and Peace: A Call for International Peace Education by Amiram Raviv, Louis Oppenheimer, Daniel Bar-Tal
How Children Understand War and Peace is a landmar more...0 points
Based on research studies done in Australia...
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Teaching Peace Songbook & Teacher's Guide by Kathy Grammer
Combines piano, guitar and vocal arrangements of t more...0 points
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Celebrate Through Heartsongs by Mattie J. T. Stepanek
attie J.T. Stepanek is an award-winning poet whose more...0 points
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One Thousand Paper Cranes: The Story of Sadako and the Children's Peace Statue by Takayuki Ishii
The inspirational story of the Japanese national c more...0 points
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics) by Eleanor Coerr
Born in Hiroshima in 1943, Sadako was the star of more...0 points
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What Does Peace Feel Like?
Peace.
What does that word really mean? Ask childre more...0 points
What does that word really mean? Ask children from around the world, and this is what they say....
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Nightlights: Stories and Advice to Help Your Child Discover Peace, Confidence, and Creativity by David Fontana, Anne Civardi
A colorful addition to the parenting bookshelf, Ni more...0 points
Imagine Peace Songs and Peace Writings Lenses
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Pete Seeger - The Power of Song
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Pete Seeger has sung for peace and justice for generations. Now there is a documentary of Pete Seeger's life entitled Pete Seeger - The Power of Song being shown on PBS and a Film festivals from Olklahoma to Vermont. But don't stop there. The lesso...
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Writings for world peace
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includes essays, poems and song lyrics
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Songs Against War
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The more things change, the more they stay the same
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Let there be Peace on Earth and Let it Begin with Me
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It is within us all to promote peace on our planet. This lense is dedicated to the everyday people doing extraordinary things to bring peace.
Imagine Peace Promoting Projects Featured Lenses
Peace promoting projects.
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White Poppies for Peace
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November 11th marks Armistice Day - the end of World War I (WWI) on November 11, 1918. The day is marked by many of the former Allied countries, including the UK where November 11th is known as Remembrance Day. In the UK there is a tradition of...
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Racism and children
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Children are not, by nature, racist. They are not born with damaging assumptions about people in any definable group. We all begin with a winning trust in others, an expectation that people will be good to each other, and that life with others will b...
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Free Hugs Campaign - The Many Benefits of Hug Therapy
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The Free Hugs Campaign began as one person's attempt to make a difference and reach out to others to brighten their lives. Juan Mann describes his inspiration as follows: Standing there in the arrivals terminal, watching other passengers meeting the...
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10 Million Clicks for Peace
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Imagine helping millions of victims of war and violence, impacting world peace using the power of the internet. That's the vision of 10 Million Clicks for Peace founder, Julian Kalmar and co-founders Rick Beneteau, Jim Namaste, and...
Peace Crafts and Projects
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Peace On Earth Window Craft Kit (Pk/50)
Peace On Earth Window Craft Kit. Contains non-toxi more...0 points
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Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time by Betty Christiansen
All across America, people are knitting for peace. more...0 points
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Oodles of Origami: Japanese Paper Folding Art, Gift Kit
Kit includes a colorful pre-made Peace Crane and 6 more...0 points
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Encouraging Words Marble Set, Peace, Love, Joy, Dream & Hope, 1 Inch Diameter
This beautiful set contains drawstring pouch, disp more...0 points
Imagine Peace Promoting Idea Featured Lens
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This is The War that Bush Built
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My lenses are generally about math and math education. This is an exception. This is a parody of the children's poem, "The House that Jack Built." I wrote it in 2003. I came upon it on my computer again on Hallowe'en (fitting day) 2007. The sad thi...
Books to Imagine Peace
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
The astonishing, uplifting story of a real-life In more...0 points
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Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Thich Nhat Hanh
In the rush of modern life, we tend to lose touch more...0 points















































