2023 Planting the Friends’ Peace Pole was a highlight of our 2023 year because it joined the 50 other Peace Poles that have been dedicated in Atlanta & surrounding suburbs. Below are a few links so you can review some of the Peace Poles we have dedicated through my organization Partnerships In Peace.org & Atlanta Peace Trails.com.  After years of volunteer…

December 28, 2023 Attached is an article from the Warragul Gazette regarding a Rotary Peace Pole planting in Drouin, Victoria, Australia.

December – 2023 This time it was carved in Maramures style, similar to the open air shrines which are displaced in every village of MARAMURES  county. The Peace Pole bears the peace message “May Peace Prevail On Earth” -(“Să fie pace pe pământ”) in all the languages studied în this school, as such: ROMANIAN, HUNGARIAN, GERMAN, FRENCH,  ENGLISH AND UKRAINIAN. Group of…

December 15, 2023 Student ambassadors welcomed Randall Pepper’s visitors, who passed by photographs of the O’Day Short family as they walked to the heart of the campus to reach the garden. The Randall Pepper Choir performed “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” the African American spiritual song, and fifth grader Londyn Otis read the poem “Peace” by Sara Fox before a…

December 13, 2023 Westminster school to be replaced by community park. Council votes to designate money for demolition of Sheridan Green Elementary and community park design. A 43-year-old Westminster Elementary School closed due to a dwindling student population will be razed, and the land it occupies redesigned into a larger community park, the Westminster Council…

December 03, 2023 Today I could exhibit the origami mini desktop Peace Poles that were crafted by volunteer elders in Japan. The Palestine-Israel peace group gave me some space to place them at our local alternative Christmas Market in Germany. Dagmar Berkenberg,May Peace Prevail On Earth InternationalEurope Office

December 1, 2023 2023 World AIDS Day was held, on December 1, 2023, as declared by the United Nations.  In Nigeria, Peace Ambassadors converge in Port Harcourt at Corporate Residence, Old GRA by William Jumbo. The event on the theme “LET COMMUNITIES LEAD” in attendance were participants drawn from across Nigeria and the USA.  Two…

November 28, 2023 Attached I am sending you a photo from the municipality of Altenberge. The Mayor of our community, Karl Reinke, joined the Mayors for Peace initiative last year and suggested setting up a Peace Pole. Since November 20th, 2023, the Peace Pole has been centrally located in the town center at the entrance…

November 22, 2023 The Executive Director of Center for  Alternative  Dispute  Resolution, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria Barr Anietie Inyang, JP received a Desktop Peace Pole to commemorate the 2023 Global Peace Pole Day. The Center also agree to Partner with May Peace Prevail on Earth International and UNIDPC to reach out to the community with…

November 22, 2023 A Peace Pole was dedicated at the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding in Gainesville, FL.  A group of twenty two friends and family gathered to remember their joint efforts in starting an environmental center over 30 years ago.  It was a perfect occasion to dedicated a Peace Pole in gratitude to their…