by Susan | Sep 12, 2016 | Monuments
Oh, the irony! After World War I, the University of Leeds commissioned the radical sculptor (and type designer) Eric Gill to produce a war memorial. In 1923 he presented a frieze of the gospel story of Jesus driving the money-changers out of the temple. Those...
by Susan | Sep 5, 2016 | Monuments
Dedicated in 2008, Junkyu Muto’s 12-foot-high “Circle of Sacred Smoke,” the third of seven sculptures he plans to carve to promote world peace, represents the first circle of smoke ascending from a peace pipe, Muto said. The peace pipe has spiritual...
by Susan | Aug 29, 2016 | Monuments
Or, as they say in Kiswahili, Amani, Upendo And Umoja. This fountain is in the 76-acre Uhuhru (Freedom) Park in central Nairobi, which was established by Jomo Kenyatta, the first president of Kenya. It was here that a crowd of more than 40,000 gathered to watch the...
by Susan | Aug 22, 2016 | Monuments
In 2003, working out of a workshop in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, Mark Solomon, an American blacksmith and anti-gun campaigner, taught basic metalwork and safety skills to artists from Cambodia’s Royal University of Fine Arts. As part of The Peace Art Project...
![Monday’s Monument: Reichs[anti]kolonialehrendenkmal, Bremen, Germany](http://www.sanantoniopeace.center/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/humanityagainstapartheidbremengermany.jpg)
by Susan | Aug 15, 2016 | Monuments
This ten-meter high structure was completed in 1931 as a monument to the German colonies which then included Cameroon, Togo, Deutsch-Ostafrika [Tanzania], Deutsch-Südwestafrika [Namibia] and several islands. For decades the “Reichskolonialehrendenkmal” stood as a...
by Susan | Aug 8, 2016 | Monuments
The Founder and Preceptor of Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Order, The Most Venerable Nichidatsu Fujii (1885 – 1985), or Fujii Guruji as he was called by Mahatma Gandhi, was devoted to world pacifism and international disarmament. He worked with Gandhi in India in the...
