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Many Peace Monuments
By Theme

This section (Peace Monuments by Theme) accesses separate web pages for many different themes & subjects. These files show HOW peace monuments relate to each other internationally. For example, all peace bells (that I've found so far) are in one file, and all peace monuments related to reconciliation are in another.

"Themes" is a catch-all category which labels most any way that peace monuments can be described, e.g. physical form, different symbols of peace, various episodes of history & the organizations (both formal & informal) with which they can be identified. The very long list of categories below names only a few of the many themes which could be identified.

Any given peace monument can be classified in multiple themes. For example, the Tsitsernakapert Erevanme is a genocide memorial in Yerevan (Armenia). By definition, it belongs to the theme of genocide, but its shape assigns it to the theme of peace towers, and its eternal flame causes it to be also included under the theme of peace flames.

Some Peace Themes:

Classical Peace
Art - 89 Examples

85 Women's Rights
Monuments

44 Peace Symbol
(Nuclear Disarmament)

Pacifist, CO & War
Resister Monuments

Children's Monuments
(& Sadako Sasaki)

50 Indigenous
Peoples Monuments

39 Peace Monuments
Depicting Animals

75 Civil Rights
Monuments in USA

48 Human Rights
Monuments

Comfort Women
Monuments

33 Angels
of Peace

24 Biblical
Quotations

22 Books in
Monuments

15 LGBT
Monuments

10 Lynching Monu-
ments in USA

Physical Forms of Peace Monuments:

176 Globes
& Spheres

153 Peace Gardens
(Large & Small)

>152 Peace Bells
& Peace Gongs

144 Peace Parks
(Large & Small)

135 Peace Walls
& Peace Murals

87 Paintings &
Other Classical Art

Peace Pagodas+Stupas
& Nipponzan Myohoji

62 Peace Trees
& Peace Forests

60 Peace Trails
& Peace Walks

59 Peace Flames
& Beacons

59 Peace Ships
& Peace Boats

57 Peace Towers
Around the World

40 Peace
Crosses

39 Arms &
Old Weapons

39 Pyramids
(Peace & otherwise)

31 Peace
Arches

26 Peace
Mosaics

18 Peace
Columns

12 Peace Streets,
Roads & Highways

Physical Forms of Peace Monuments Too Numerous to Count:

Blue Plaques
on houses in UK

Dream Catchers
in Native America

Inuksuk/Inuksuit
in Canada

Our Lady of Peace
in Catholic churches

Mezuzah/Mezuzot
in Jewish doorways

Billiken
The God ofThings
As They Ought to Be

Peace Symbol
(CND, 1958)

Peace Poles
& World Peace Prayer

Peace Pagodas+Stupas
& Nipponzan Myohoji

Roadside Markers
At hist sites in USA

Stolpersteine
in Germany etc.

Berlin Wall Monuments
in Berlin & elsewhere

9/11 monuments
in USA etc.

A Few Museums for Peace:

510 Museums for Peace
Around the World

Peace Palace
The Hague (Netherlands)

Dayton Intl Peace Museum
Dayton, Ohio (USA)

Peace Memorial Museum
Hiroshima (Japan)

Yad Vashem Holocaust
Memorial,Jerusalem(Israel)

International Network
of Museums for Peace

Miscelaneous Peace Organizations:

UN & Peacekeeping Monuments
(New York & elsewhere)

100+ "Monday's
Monuments"

Rotary International
Around the World

40 Red Cross
& Red Crescent

50 Kiwanis Peace Markers
on US/Canadian border

Esperanto
& Ludwik Zamenhof

21 World Peace Bell
Association (WPBA)

18 World Walls
for Peace (WWFP)

17 Soka Gakkai
International (SGI)

7 Bah�'�
Faith

Foreign Service
of the USA

Human Tragedies

111 Peace Monuments
About Slavery

42 Peace Monuments
for US Civil War

115 Peace Monuments
for World War I

80 Peace Monuments
for World War II

Holocaust or
Shoah Monuments

Genocide Monuments
(other than Holocaust)

Nuclear
History

12 Anti-Bomb
Monuments

26 Monuments
for 9/11 Attack

24 Terrorism
Monuments

Other Themes

57 Nude
Peace Monuments

12 Peace Monuments
For Sale

9 Glamourous
Peace Monuments

Invitation

If you find these web pages interesting, you are cordially invited to help create & maintain them.
Almost anyone could submit information about a peace monument (or peacemaker) known to YOU.
A STUDENT in need of a research project or a RETIREE in search of an interesting avocation could take on one or more parts of this website. No one has all of the skills (research, photography, travel, database management, writing, fund-raising, social media & website creation -- among others) needed to make this website achieve its full potential. But YOU could contibute what you do best, and others could contribute what they do best.
Together, we could make this website BLOOM -- and help save the world from war & violence. Is this too big an ambition? I don't think so. Everyone has to do what he or she can. That's the only way we can make progress toward our goal of a world without violence & injustice, i.e. toward PEACE.
Eventually -- possibly in just a few months or years -- the time & attention of the guy who started "Peace Monuments Around the World" will fade, and his creation will EITHER disappear OR live on in the hands of one or more successors. Which shall it be?
If any of this interests you (even a small part), please contact Ted Lollis in any of the ways shown on the CONTACT page. Start a low-key dialogue. No obligation. Don't delay! Do so TODAY!