Title of Project

Explanation

1

Oral History Project

(of Chemical Warfare Survivors)

(This project aims to gather long-form interviews with survivors of chemical warfare in order to create an archive of their histories. Interviews will be both audio and video, with transcripts available in the original Persian as well as English translations.)

• Organize workshops aimed at teaching how to conduct oral history interviews.
• Interview 20 survivors per month.
• Interview experts on chemical warfare and physicians familiar with cases of chemical exposure.
• Transcribe all interviews.
• Gather archival material related to chemical warfare.
• Create a digital archive of the interviews products (Audio, Video, texts)

2

Phoenix Project

(Survivors of chemical warfare volunteer as guides to the Peace Museum for their invited friends, family, and colleagues, They also work as peace ambassadors in their own communities by educating others about creating a culture of peace and by encouraging them to visit the Museum.)

• Organize workshops for survivors on how to narrate and provide information on their guided tours.
• Put together educational opportunities for survivors, especially focused on foreign language training.
• Design invitation cards for outreach purposes and uniforms for volunteer guides.
• Produce material for guided tours, as well as public relations material for outreach purposes.
• File monthly report from each member in the museum archives.

3

Traveling C-Bomb Exhibition

(This multi-lingual exhibition includes images and archival material about chemical warfare and its effects on survivors for the purpose of raising awareness)

• Select relevant images from the archives and write accompany material.
• Translate material to several languages.
• Curate and design the exhibition posters.
• Print exhibition posters and create digital format of the exhibition.
• Send the exhibition package to relevant destinations to be displayed.
• Display the exhibition during the “Messengers of Peace” missions.

4

Messengers of Peace Project

(Survivors of chemical warfare undergo training to serve as peace ambassadors from Iran to different international symposia/ conferences and public events

To raise awareness through eye witness accounts as well and to deliver message of peace )

• Organize 10-hour training workshops for peace messengers (gas attacks survivors).
• Research relevant peace symposia and conferences for attendance.
• Organize trips (one every three months).
• Create reports from each trip and publish reports on Museum website.

5

Art for Peace Project

(Create art projects that have peace and anti-violence as their core messages)

• Create workshops for training the trainers
• Collect art education material for Museum Library.
• Purchase material necessary for art projects and art workshops.
• Program art workshops.

6

“Lest We Forget! “ Project

(A support network for survivors who are hospitalized. We will follow up with them while they are hospitalized and provide any needed support to their families.)

• Create a network of all survivors of chemical warfare so that we are informed when one is hospitalized.
• Organize visits to survivors in the hospital and at their homes when newly released.
• Support survivors and their families who have special needs and extenuating circumstances.
• Advocate on behalf of the survivors in case they need extended medical care or extended social services for their families.

7

Peace Tours Project

(Organize tours to war-torn areas, battlefields, spiritual centers, and ecological sites with the purpose of learning lessons from the past and being messengers of peace)

• Identify locations for travel.
• Create tour itinerary.
• Collect travel guide and relevant materials
• Create tours to war-torn areas and battlefield sites, both domestic and international, with the purpose of peace education.
• Create an international and domestic network of peace tours.

8

Peace and Smile Project

(Create a photography exhibition aimed at capturing people in moments of happiness. The project will include photographs of people from diverse backgrounds all over the world)

• Call for photographs, both domestic and international.
• Submitted photographs will be judged and selected.
• Selected photographs will be printed and awarded prizes.
• Selected photographs will be exhibited at Museum.

9

Nikihayekouchak is Iranian counterpart of Random Act of Kindness project.

• In this project we are trying to promote the culture of peace and kindness through different available means in our society. Examples of what we plan to do are: visiting patients and seniors; handing out food and clothes to homeless people; smiling; offering our skills to people who need them; cleaning public places; giving away ice cream/small toy to children ....

We are in the beginning of our long journey and we need help to make it practical. If you are interested in, please contact us:

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