Peace Monuments Around the World

This website contains information about many peace monuments -- over time and in all parts of world.

To navigate the site, click a category from one of the links listed below. Within each category, dates indicate date of each monument's dedication. Flags indicate current nationality (not necessarily the same as on date of dedication).

Please email your comments & questions to geovisual at comcast.net. Thank you for your interest in peace monuments.

	Click here for an Overview of Peace Monuments. This the text of an article entitled "Peace Monuments" to be published in January2010 as part of the 4-volume International Encyclopedia of Peace by Oxford University Press (OUP), New York, New York (USA).
	Click here for an illustrated essay "Peace Monuments Assist Peace Education" prepared for "The Peace Chronicle," newsletter of the Peace & Justice Studies Association (PJSA).
	Click here for Countries Rank Ordered by Number of Peace Monuments, accounting for 388 Museums for Peace & more than 1,300 Static Peace Monuments (with extra tables for Canada, Japan, UK & USA).
	Click here for an interactive list of 388 Museums for Peace Around the World by Category (A-bomb, civil rights, environment, genocide, Nobel Prize, pacifism, racism, reconciliation, slavery, terrorism, etc.).
	Click here for an illustrated essay about selected peace monuments in India (notes from a trip in December 2006-January 2007).
	Click here for an illustrated essay about selected peace monuments in Japan (notes from a trip in October 2008).
	Click here for an overview of peace monuments. This is the text of a PowerPoint presentation entitled "Peace Monuments Around the World" delivered on October 6, 2008, to the 6th International Conference of the International Network of Museums for Peace (INMP) at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto (Japan).
	"The Oak Ridge International Friendship Bell," one of 18 papers in "The atomic bomb and American society: New perspectives," University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, edited by Rosemary B. Mariner & G. Kurt Piehler, UT Center for the Study of War and Society, 2009, pp. 344-380. Click here for a pictoral version of this paper. ON-LINE TEXT COMING SOON
	Click here for an illustrated essay about six peace monuments in Indiana and Ohio, USA (notes from a trip in July & August 2009).
	Click here for an illustrated essay about 28 peace monuments in Arkansas, Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas, USA (notes from a trip in September 2009).
	Click here for an illustrated essay about ___ peace monuments in Atlanta, Georgia, & Whitwell, Tennessee, USA (notes from a trip in October 2009). COMING SOON

PEACE MONUMENT THEMES:
Overview-For INMP 2008 | Overview-For Oxford Univ Press 2009 | Monuments by Country | Monument Artists & Designers | Top 10 Peace Monuments | Top Peace Monument Cities | Peace Monument Bibliography | Peace Monument Chronology | Peace Monument Groups | Peace Monuments For Sale | Peace Monument Vocabulary | Quotations on Monuments | Eccentric Peace Monuments | Unusual Peace Monuments | Peace Monuments on Borders | World Fairs

Monument Artists & Designers | Classical Peace Art | Civil War Era | WW-I Era | USA & Canada | USA & Japan | USA & Mexico | American Indians | Anti-Bomb Activism | Atomic Bomb | Arms into Monuments | Holocaust & Genocide | Nuclear Energy | September 11 (9/11) | The Phrase "Peace Memorial" | Atheism | Freethought | Pacifism | Peace Treaties | Reconciliation | For or About Children | Victims of Human Tragedies | Slavery & Emancipation | Fairs | Treaties | Women | Cities Worldwide

COMMON PEACE MONUMENT SYMBOLS:
Angels | Bombs | A-Bombs | Books | Christian Crosses | Classical Peace Art | Flames & Beacons | Hands & Handshakes | Horses | Lion & Lamb (Isaiah 11:6-9) | Peace Cranes | Peace Doves | Peace Symbol (CND) | Pyramids | Quotations on Monuments | Red Cross or Crescent | Rotary International | September 11 (9/11) | Spheres & Orbs | Stonehenge | Swords Into Plowshares (Isaiah 2:4) | UN Flag or Emblem | Weapons into Monuments | World Globes | World Peace Prayer

PHYSICAL FORMS OF PEACE MONUMENTS:
Angels | Arches | Bells & Gongs | World Peace Bells | Boats | Books | Buildings | Chapels & Churches | Crosses | Flames & Beacons | Fountains | Gardens | Peace Museums | Museums for Peace by Category | Museums for Peace by Country | Nudes | Pagodas & Stupas | Peace Parks | Peace Poles | Postage Stamps (& Currency) | Former Prisons | Pyramids | Sculpture | Ships | Stained Glass Windows | Statues | Stonehenge Replicas | Stones & Rocks | Towers | Trails & Walks | Trees & Groves | Walls & Murals | Peacemakers' Graves | Spheres & Orbs

FAMOUS PEACEMAKERS:
Complete List of Peacemakers | Quaker Peacemakers | Nobel Prize Laureates | Pacifists & Pacifism | Conscientious Objection | George Fox | Abraham Lincoln | Clara Barton | Henri Dunant | Edith Cavell | Gandhi (Monuments in India) | Gandhi (Monuments outside India) | Nicholas Roerich | Arthur E. Morgan | A.J. Muste | Chiune Sugihara | Peace Pilgrim | Mother Teresa | E. F. Schumacher | Robert Swann | Alex Haley | Anne Frank | Sri Chinmoy | Martin Luther King, Jr. | Yoko Ono | John Lennon | Sadako Sasaki | Samantha Reed Smith | Other Peacemakers | Peacemakers' Graves

SELECTED MONUMENT ARTISTS, DESIGNERS & BENEFACTORS:
Many Artists & Designers | David Barr | Josefina de Vasconcellos | Marshall Fredericks | Maya Lin | Carl Milles | Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd | Nicholas Roerich | Sri Chinmoy | Tomijiro Yoshida | Peter Wolf Toth

PEACE ORGANIZATIONS:
Bahá'í Faith | Bluffton University | Community of Christ | ICRC (Red Cross & Crescent) | INMP (Museums for Peace) | Nipponzan Myohoji | Nobel Peace Prize | Peace Partners International | Rotary International | Soka Gakkai International | Society of Friends | UN (United Nations) | WPBA (World Peace Bells)

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (BY STATE):
Table Showing All States | Alabama | Alaska | Arizona | Arkansas | California-North | California-South | Colorado | Connecticut | Delaware | District of Columbia | Florida | Georgia | Guam | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Illinois (Chicago to Winnipeg) | Indiana | Iowa | Kansas | Kentucky | Louisiana | Maine | Michigan | Maryland | Massachusetts | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | Montana | Nebraska | Nevada | New Hampshire | New Jersey | New Mexico | New York | New York-United Nations | North Carolina | North Dakota | Northern Mariana Islands | Ohio | Oklahoma | Oregon | Pennsylvania | Puerto Rico | Rhode Island | South Carolina | South Dakota | Tennessee | Texas | Utah | Vermont | Virginia | Washington, DC | Washington State | West Virginia | Wisconsin | Wyoming

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION IN CANADA (BY PROVINCE):
Table Showing All Provinces | Alberta | British Columbia | New Brunswick | Newfoundland & Labrador | Manitoba | Manitoba (Chicago to Winnipeg) | Northwest Territories | Nova Scotia | Nunavut | Ontario | Prince Edward Island | Québec | Saskatchewan | Yukon | Monuments Relating Canada & the USA

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION RELATED TO MEXICO:
Mexico | Monuments Relating Mexico & the USA

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM (BY COUNTRY):
Table Showing All Parts of the UK | London | Other England | Northern Ireland | Scotland | Wales

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION IN EUROPE (BY COUNTRY):
Austria | Belgium | Bosnia-Herzegovina | Czech Republic | Denmark | East Europe | England | Finland | France | Germany | Greece | Hungary | Iceland | Ireland (Éire) | Ireland-Northern | Italy | Luxembourg | Netherlands | Norway | Poland | Portugal | Russia | Scotland | Spain | Sweden | Switzerland | Turkey | United Kingdom | Wales | Vatican City

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION IN JAPAN (BY PREFECTURE):
Table Showing Different Parts of Japan | Japan | Hiroshima | Hiroshima-Elsewhere | Nagasaki | Nagasaki-Elsewhere | Okinawa | Tokyo | All Other Japan | Monuments Relating Japan & the USA

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION IN INDIA & RELATED TO MAHATMA GANDHI:
India | Gandhi Monuments in India | Gandhi Monuments Everywhere Else

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION IN ASIA (BY COUNTRY):
Bangaladesh | China | India | Indonesia | Iran | Iraq | Israel | Japan | Korea-North | Korea-South | Lebanon | Middle East | Mongolia | Myanmar | Nepal | Pakistan | Palestine | Philippines | Sri Lanka | Taiwan (Rep. of China) | Turkey | Uzbekistan | Vietnam

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION IN LATIN AMERICA:
Caribbean | Costa Rica | Cuba | Mexico | All Other Latin America

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION IN PACIFIC OCEAN & OCEANIA:
Australia | Canada-British Columbia | Japan | Mexico | New Zealand | Pacific Ocean | Philippines | USA-Alaska | USA-Hawaii

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION IN ALL OTHER COUNTRIES:
Cities Worldwide | Africa | Egypt | Israel | Middle East | South Africa | United Nations

CHRONOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION:
Before 1800 | 1800-49 | 1850-99 | 1900-04 | 1905-09 | 1910-14 | 1915-19 | 1920-24 | 1925-29 | 1930-34 | 1935-39 | 1940-44 | 1945-49 | 1950-54 | 1955-59 | 1960-64 | 1965-69 | 1970-74 | 1975-79

1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | Future

Click here for photos of peace monuments (from Webshots).
Click here for "12 Compelling Monuments Dedicated to Peace."
Click here for website of the Peace History Society (PHS).
Click here for world-wide map of peace places (from Dayton International Peace Museum).
Click here for information on the "Peace Movement Directory [for] North America" by James Richard Bennett, 2001.
Click here for Prof. Bennett's article "Centers, Museums, and Public Memorials for Nonviolent Peacemaking in the US: A Visitors' Guide," PeaceWork Magazine, Americn Friends Service Committee (AFSC), May 1999.
Click here for information on "Progressive Nation: A Travel Guide with 400+ Left Turns and Inspiring Landmarks" by Jerome Pohlen, Chicago Review Press, 2008.

Click here for freedom & liberty monuments.
Click here for international friendship monuments.

(NB: I consider all Mahatma Gandhi, Sadako Sasaki, and Martin Luther King, Jr., monuments to be peace monuments by definition. I do not necessarily include civil rights monuments in any of the categories of this website.)

Please email your comments & questions to geovisual at comcast.net. Thank you.