Submitted:  February 11, 2024 To All: Optics in Peace-building … A Peace Pole at every meeting and event is a peacebuilding action. Furthermore, this is how peace can be included visually in every story: I take and use my personal Peace Pole wherever and whenever I can …. including public events.Currently, my Peace Pole is on loan to Westport…

February 2, 2024 The Peace Pole is planted at: Saint Mary’s Village, 19a Melville Rd, Hyde Park, Sandton, 2196, at 10 north of Johannesburg’s city center in SOUTH AFRICA The Missionary Dominicans are mainly represented in South Africa. Subsequently, one of the leading nuns in South Africa had visited the Schlehdor Monastery located in Bavaria…

January 21, 2024 The first time I saw a Peace Pole was during a leadership course I followed in the Netherlands. At the course location there was a Peace Pole standing. A while later I saw a Peace Pole standing at the entrance of Machu Picchu, the famous ancient Inca city in Peru.  By then,…

January 10, 2024 To recognise the centenary of the Rotary Club of Adelaide in South Australia during 2023 – 2024 a goal to donate 100 Peace Poles to schools, community groups and not for profit organisations has proven so popular that well over the 100 Peace Poles have already been installed. The Peace Poles symbolise the message of peace, inspiring unity among people from around the world. The popular project began from an initiative inspired by the Rotary Club of Canberra Burley Griffin to celebrate the centenary of Rotary in Australia and New Zealand in 2020-2021. Rotary Clubs across South Australia are continuing this legacy….

January 4, 2024 Ophir students learn about the importance of goodwill in their community, and the world. As Big Sky students at Ophir Elementary School recently returned to school to begin their new year, a special symbol now reminds them each day of what peace means, individually and to their entire student body. Two years ago, fourth grade…

December 31, 2023 Kevin Mann, president of the Rocky Point Rotary Club, stands at the forefront of a noble mission — to promote peace and unity within communities both at the local and global scale. Notably, he is involved in the installation of Peace Poles, tangible symbols echoing the universal desire for a harmonious world….

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…