Canadian Centres for
Teaching Peace
Box 70
Okotoks, AB  CANADA
T1A 1S4
Ph: (403) 461-2469

Fax: (309) 407-6576
E-Mail: stewartr [at] peace.ca

Last update:
10 Feb 2008

Dear Reader,
Thank you very much for showing an interest in helping to build peace.

First, if you have not reviewed our web site at http://www.peace.ca it contains a lot of relevant information.

 We do need a lot of help.  There is a lot to be done, and a lot of opportunity to tailor what a person can do to their personal and professional interests and backgrounds.  The way I like to put it is "Here is the status and needs as we see it (i.e. see www.peace.ca ), what would you like to do and how can we support you?"  You might wish to do something independently, or in conjunction with our activities.

Here are some of my priorities at this time: 1. continue to build www.peace.ca to be the pre-eminent virtual Centre for Teaching Peace in the world (eventually bricks and mortar sites as well); 2. promotion of the UNESCO Culture of Peace Program, COP2000 the United Nations International Decade for a Culture of Peace, a National Culture of Peace Program for Canada and unification of peace groups; 3 developing a sustainable flow of revenues to fund worthwhile peace activities (including the marketing of peacebuilding); 4. television media program(s) using existing infrastructure.  Possibly some of this interests you.

This gives you a quick idea.  Please review the specifically identified needs below.   Tell me what you think at stewartr [at] peace.ca and I would be pleased to try to support you
Regards,
Bob Stewart

An Inventory of Peace Things To Do - a comprehensive list of things that we need to do to start to build a Culture of Peace and Non-violence for the Children of the World.

We need help to create a Canadian Peace Education Foundation to help provide much needed financial resources for peace education programs at home and abroad. If you have read the pages of this web site, then you know the importance of peace education to building 'A World Fit For Children'.  Our immediate priorities are sponsorship of Annual Peace Education Conferences, creation of Distance Peace Education Programs, Training for Trainers, and Peace Resource Libraries ... to name a few.  Put bluntly, we need sponsors, fund raisers and money to do what needs to be done.  If you are able to help, and want to feel good about making a contribution to peace building, please contact Bob Stewart at  or stewartr [at] peace.ca 

A Possible Class Project

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** The following needs have been identified to promote a Culture of Peace:

• a Culture of Peace television station; see Culture of Peace News Network
• a Canadian Culture of Peace "museum" or centre; - in particular, we need a site. View our Peace Museum here and let us know what you would include in a Canadian Museum for Peace & the Future.
  

• a Culture of Peace video;
• a Culture of Peace audio tape/CD (i.e. a collection of old and modern peace songs);
• a Culture of Peace school volunteers teaching program;
• a fundraising specialist;
• a marketing specialist or agency to help "Sell Peace" (the greatest marketing challenge).

These challenges may be of particular interest to people who's vocation is in the field.

If you would like to actively become involved with the Canadian Centres for Teaching Peace, please contact Robert Stewart via email at stewartr [at] peace.ca.   We need motivated individuals with marketing ideas and experience to help spread the word on promoting such peace projects.