By Edward Lollis
ISBN-10: 1618635425
ISBN-13: 9781618635426
ISBN-10: 1618635433
ISBN-13: 9781618635433
Peace monuments and museums have fun the top of battle and the expectancy of peace and prosperity. They show peaceable human aspirations equivalent to justice, tolerance, and reconciliation.
They rejoice such achievements because the abolition of slavery, women’s suffrage, defeat of tyrannical and murderous regimes, announcement of human rights, appreciate for conscientious objectors, finish of apartheid, non-use of nuclear guns, racial integration, acceptance of overseas interdependence, reconciliation of divided international locations, and fight for gender equality.
Unfortunately, peace monuments and museums are principally underappreciated simply because they're beaten by way of the greatly greater variety of struggle monuments and museums all around the world.
This is the 1st booklet to bare the wonder, the diversity, and the meanings of peace monuments and museums. prepared chronologically, it indicates a variety of 416 peace monuments and museums from 70 nations and from all eras way back to the Greeks and Romans.
Fortunately, extra peace monuments and museums are being built at the present time than ever ahead of. This creates another cause to check the earlier -- in order to be aware of higher the way to construct our personal peace monuments and museums. What peace achievements and occasions will we are looking to memorialize? What legacies of peace will we are looking to bestow on destiny generations?
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