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 @ comcast.net. Thank you for your interest in peace monuments.

	NEW Click here for an illustrated essay about 82 selected peace monuments in Europe (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, France & Luxembourg), 33 of which we visited personally (notes from a trip in August 2020).
	Click here for an Overview of Peace Monuments. This the text of an article entitled "Peace Monuments" in the 4-volume International Encyclopedia of Peace by Oxford University Press (OUP), New York (January 2010), volume 3, pp. 416-421.
	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).
	NEW Click here for "Peace Monuments Confront Militarism," an illustrated essay from "The Peace Chronicle" (Spring-Summer 2010), newsletter of the Peace & Justice Studies Association (PJSA).
	Click here for "Peace Monuments Assist Peace Education," an illustrated essay from "The Peace Chronicle" (Winter 2009-2010), newsletter of the Peace & Justice Studies Association (PJSA).
	NEW Click here for "The Sanctification of Hiroshima," submitted for publication in Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, special issue on "Memorializing Space," University of San Francisco (Fall 2010). About the tradition of the non-use of nuclear weapons, Alvin Weinberg [1915-2006], the Peace Bell in Hiroshima (Japan), and the International Friendship Bell in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (USA)..
	Click here for "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 (February 1, 2009), pp. 344-380. Click here for text of this book as scanned by Google. Click here for pictorial version of this paper.
	Click here for "Museums for Peace Around the World," an interactive list of 418 museums in 32 Categories (A-bomb, civil rights, environment, genocide, Nobel Prize, pacifism, racism, reconciliation, slavery, 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 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).

SPECIAL WEB PAGES:
NEW Join the Friends of Peace Monuments
Famous Peacemakers | Human Tragedies | NEW "Sanctifiction of Hiroshima"
"Peace Monuments," article from Oxford International Encylopedia of Peace (2010)
"Oak Ridge International Friendship Bell," from University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville (2009)
NEW "Peace: Renewal of an Enlightenment Project" by Nigel Young, from Magdalen College, Oxford (April 29, 2010)
"Peace Monuments Around the World," from 6th International Conference of Museums for Peace, Kyoto (October 6, 2008)
"Peace Monuments Assist Peace Education," from "The Peace Chronicle," Peace & Justice Studies Association (Winter 2009-2010)
NEW "Peace Monuments Confront Militarism," from "The Peace Chronicle," Peace & Justice Studies Assm. (Spring-Summer 2010)

PEACE MONUMENT THEMES:
Overview-For INMP 2008 | Monuments by Country | Monument Artists & Designers | Friends of Peace Monuments | Top 10 Peace Monuments | Top Peace Monument Cities | Peace Monument Bibliography | Peace Monument Chronology | NEW Paired Peace Monuments | Peace Monument Groups | Peace Monuments For Sale | Peace Monument Vocabulary | Quotations on Monuments | Eccentric Peace Monuments | Unusual Peace Monuments | Peace Monuments on Borders | NEW International Friendship | Sister Cities | World Fairs | NEW World Federalism | NEW World Government

Monument Artists & Designers | Classical Peace Art | Civil War Era | World War I Era | World War II Era | Cold War (1945-1991) | Korean War | USA & Canada | USA & Japan | USA & Mexico | American Indians | Anti-Bomb Activism | Atomic Bomb | Arms into Monuments | NEW European Union | Holocaust & Genocide | Nuclear Energy | September 11 (9/11) | The Phrase "Peace Memorial" | NEW Atheism | NEW Freethought | Pacifism | NEW Islam | NEW Peace Treaties | Reconciliation | For or About Children | Victims of Human Tragedies | Slavery & Emancipation | NEW "Sanctifiction of Hiroshima" | Fairs | NEW Treaties | Women | Cities Worldwide

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

PHYSICAL FORMS OF PEACE MONUMENTS:
Angels | Arches | Bells & Gongs | World Peace Bells | NEW Boats | NEW Bridges | Arches | Buildings | Chapels & Churches | Crosses | NEW Dams | Flames & Beacons | Fountains | Inuksuit (Artic monuments) | Gardens | Globes | Peace Museums | Museums for Peace by Category | Museums for Peace by Country | NEW Nudes | Pagodas & Stupas | Peace Parks | Peace Poles | Postage Stamps (& Currency) | Former Prisons | Pyramids | Sculpture | NEW Ships | Stained Glass Windows | Statues | NEW Steel Plate | 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 | Other Peacemakers | Peacemakers' Graves

Clara Barton | NEW Andrew Carnegie | Edith Cavell | Sri Chinmoy | Henri Dunant | Desiderius Erasmus | George Fox | Anne Frank | Gandhi (Monuments in India) | Gandhi (Monuments outside India) | Alex Haley | Martin Luther King, Jr. | John Lennon | Abraham Lincoln | Lola Maverick Lloyd | Arthur E. Morgan | A.J. Muste | Yoko Ono | Peace Pilgrim | Barbara Reynolds | Nicholas Roerich | Sadako Sasaki | E. F. Schumacher | Rosika Schwimmer | Samantha Reed Smith | Chiune Sugihara | Robert Swann | Mother Teresa | Alvin Weinberg |

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 | NEW CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) | NEW Church Peace Union | Community of Christ | EU (European Union) | ICRC (Red Cross & Crescent) | INMP (Museums for Peace) | Nipponzan Myohoji | Nobel Peace Prize | NEW Pax Christi | Peace Partners International | Rotary International | Quakers | Soka Gakkai International | Society of Friends | UN (United Nations) | NEW WFM (World Federalist Movement) | WPBA (World Peace Bells)

JUST FOR FUN:
NEW Paired Peace Monuments | Monuments For Sale | NEW Nudes | Eccentric Peace Monuments | Peace Doves | NEW Peace Symbol (CND) | Quotations on Monuments

NEW CITIES WITH MANY PEACE MONUMENTS:
Table Showing Selected Cities | Amsterdam (Netherlands) | Atlanta (USA) | Berlin (Germany) | Bluffton, Ohio (USA) | Chicago (USA) | Geneva (Switzerland) | Hiroshima (Japan) | London (England) | Los Angeles (USA) | Nagasaki (Japan) | New York City (USA) | Paris (France) | Philadelphia (USA) | Rotterdam (Netherlands) | San Francisco (USA) | The Hague (Netherlands) | Tokyo (Japan) | Utrecht (Netherlands) | Vienna (Austria)

NEW TRIPS TO VARIOUS DESTINATIONS:
NEW Europe (Germany & 5 other countries) in 2010 | India in 2006-7 | Japan in 2008 |
USA (Colorado, New Mexico & 7 other states) in 2009 | USA (Indiana & Ohio) in 2009

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 | Tennessee (Oak Ridge) | 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 | Inuksuit (Artic monuments) | 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):
European Union | Austria | Belgium | Bosnia-Herzegovina | Czech Republic | Denmark | East Europe | England | Finland | France | Germany | Trip to Germany in 2010 | 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 | NEW "Sanctification of Hiroshima" | Hiroshima-Elsewhere | Nagasaki | Nagasaki-Elsewhere | Okinawa | Tokyo | All Other Japan | Monuments Relating Japan & the USA | World Peace Bells | Trip to Japan in 2008

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION IN INDIA & RELATED TO MAHATMA GANDHI:
India | Gandhi Monuments in India | Gandhi Monuments Everywhere Else | Trip to India in 2006-7

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 | NEW 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 @ comcast.net. Thank you.