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The following school project for the olympics and peace has just been received from the Life Link schools. For more information, see their website at www.life-link.org Friendship-Schools world-wide in favour of the Olympic Truce Life-Link friends and other Peace friends at schools world-wide, From the bottom of our excited hearts we recommend that students and classes at your school perform a peace action Olympic Truce - Get on the Move! (Life-Link action 1:15). Why not a whole school and a one day activity sometime in June-July-August-September 2004! Life-Link promotes peace actions to be undertaken at schools all continents. www.life-link.org : Care and peace with Myself - with Others - with Nature. The modern Olympic Truce ("Olympic peace") highlights and stresses the true Olympic Ideals from the ancient times: "Fighting ceased from seven days before until seven days after the Games, allowing athletes, artists and spectators to travel to Olympia, participate in the Olympic Games and return to their homelands in peace." www.olympictruce.org The United Nations 190 member States in a resolution November 2003 unanimously support the Olympic Truce initiative! Well-known signatures from all over the world do the same! www.olympictruce.org Let us engage in a historical challenge ! Let's give peace a chance: Let us abolish war as an outdated method to solve human conflicts! "Conflicts will not cease overnight. But if we can stop fighting for 16 days, maybe we can do it forever!" It depends on us, on you and me of course. This challenge is realistic! Invite athletes and sport heroes to be peace ambassadors! After consultations with the International Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Foundation in Lausanne, as well as the Olympic Truce Centre in Athens and the Swedish national Olympic Committee in Stockholm, the Life-Link Friendship-Schools Association is proud, honoured and eager to support the Olympic Truce by offering our ongoing peace education programme to the peace curriculum at schools world-wide. Proposal Plan and perform a part day or a one day of Mini-Olympic Games, Olympic Truce - Get on the Move, at and around your school. Guidelines are enclosed, please turn over to next side. Report to Life-Link: A short report, use the report forms on www.life-link.org "Action Report{ or the {Report a new action{ on your page at the website. You can also send a report by ordinary letter mail. If you send some photos from your Olympic Truce actions (1-5 photos?), do it by ordinary letter mail or as jpg documents on e-mail. Report latest 31 December, but preferably before 30 September 2004, the sooner the more inspiration for other schools in the world! Uppsala Sweden May 2004 Hans Levander, Medical Doctor, Chairperson Rita Medvedeva, Student, Katedralskolan Uppsala |