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GPPAC’s Peace Portal: Share Your Story
an article by Signis World Catholic Association for Communication
GPPAC (Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict)
has opened a social networking portal the “Peace Portal”. The portal is
opened to all to share their stories of building a Culture of Peace.
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SIGNIS
is a member of GPPAC and we encourage our members and friends to
participate in the Peace portal and publish their stories of
peacebuilding.
Too often we hear about war and conflict but not enough about
the stories of initiatives effectively promoting peace and dialogue. The
'Stories of Peace' challenge promoted by the Peace Portal wants to give
your stories the opportunity to get heard, and maybe even published!
If you are an individual or represent an organization working
in conflict prevention, send us your short story on peacebuilding and
get a chance to win a publication of your story in a book!
The 25 best stories will be published in "People Building Peace 2.0" and all winners will receive ten copies of the book.
You can submit your stories in July and August only! Click here to receive more information about the contest!
You can participate by submitting any story about peace
initiatives and peacebuilding. The format is flexible and open to your
creativity: it can be an interview, a short article, or a blog. We do
not recommend submitting essays or papers written in academic or highly
theoretical language. Feel free to write about your personal experience
and/or give your personal view and interpretation. We would like to hear
about your ’critical reflection’ and about lessons learned: we are not
looking for a ’perfect’ story or for ideal outcomes.
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DISCUSSION
Question(s) related to this article:
How can peacemakers make peace more newsworthy?
Thematic forum(s) in which this article is being discussed:
GLOBAL MOVEMENT - MOUVEMENT MONDIAL
LATEST READER COMMENT:
I
am convinced that this is a key question for the peace movement,
because it concerns the consciousness of people. Consciousness is
key for tipping the balance at key moments of radical change in history,
and increasingly in our times the consciousness of people is determined
by what they see and read in the mass media.
This was also the conclusion of many organizations in their remarks for the Civil Society Report to the UN at the midpoint of the culture of peace decade.
There
is an interesting bright spot, however. The conferences on
tourism for a culture of peace that are organized by the International
Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) have gotten good press in the
countries where the conferences are held. The reason is simple.
Tourism is big business in these countries and the IIPT can get
the top political personalities to give speeches, which also brings good
press coverage.
I think there are important lessons here for the
peace movement. We need to link peace to business and through
business to the government and media.. . ...more.
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This report was posted on July 7, 2011.
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