A General History of the Peace Museum Movement
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A General History of the Peace Museum Movement
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Peace Museums are a relatively new idea. War, on the other hand, has enjoyed glorification through monuments, literature, art, and war museums for centuries. Against the backdrop of these relatively one-sided accounts, the idea arose of comprehensively recording the details of warfare—its depravity, the acute human costs associated with war, the totality of warfare that extends beyond the images of glory and valor—in the setting of a formally organized museum. The motivation for such an endeavor was and still is the faith that “making people aware of the reality of war [is] tantamount to educating them for peace.
The dawn of the age of modern warfare at the turn of the 19th century provided the impetus for establishment of the first noted peace museum of our era. In 1902, the International Museum of War and Peace was opened to the public in Lucerne, Switzerland. It was another two decades before another peace museum took root. In the wake of the devastating effects of World War I on European society, particularly in the German republic, Ernst Friedrich launched the First International Anti-War Museum in 1925. It was later closed by the Nazi regime in 1933 as Friedrich fled persecution.
The second wave of peace museums sprung up after the destructive years of World War II. Appropriately, the majority of these museums were established in Japan, where a keen understanding of the fatal consequences of nuclear warfare was realized. The cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were centers of staunch opposition to nuclear warfare that spread throughout the world. Peace museums also were instituted in post-war Germany.
Today, peace museums can be found in every continent of the world. Though war still lingers, there is hope to be found in the growth of the peace museum movement. Efforts aimed at furthering the cause of peace are truly “an incremental enterprise. The greater the presence of peace museums , the more palpable the message of peace for the general public to approach, appreciate, and assimilate as part of their own beliefs. |
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A brief History of The Tehran Peace Museum
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The Tehran Peace Museum
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The Idea of founding TPM began with a conversation between the founders of the Tehran-based Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support (SCWVS) and a coordinator for the International Network of Museums for Peace in 2005 .
This, as well as a visit to Hiroshima, Japan by members of SCWVS , fed into the desire for a peace museum in Tehran. It was in Hiroshima where the suffering from atomic arms was able to convert most powerfully into a drive for peace manifested via a peace museum. This ability to use the intense suffering of war to highlight the need for peace made the museum’s founders realize Iran’s parallel suffering from chemical arms and the need for a parallel drive for peace.
Currently housed in a building donated by the municipality of Tehran within the historic City Park, the Tehran Peace Museum is as much an interactive peace center as a museum.
The museum's peace library includes a collection the implementation of peace to oral histories of veterans and victims of war. Permanent and rotating peace related art exhibitions displaying the work of amateur international and Iranian artists are also housed in the museum complex. Finally, the Iranian secretariat for the international organization " Mayors for Peace" is housed in the Tehran Peace museum. Tehran Peace Museum was temporarily closed for public visitors in 2010 for redesign and the new building with completely new design was inaugurated in a ceremony on 28 June 2011. Mr Koichiro Maeda, Director of Hiroshima peace Memorial Museum was special guest of the reopening of Tehran peace museum.
Director Maeda and Deputy Mayor of Tehran cutting the ribbon during the opening ceremony of TPM, June 2011 |
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Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University
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University for Peace (the United Nations-mandated University)
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EUROPEAN PEACE UNIVERSITY
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Peace Studies at University of Bradford
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International Peace Research Institute Meiji Gakuin University
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UNESCO Chair for Human Rights, Peace and Democracy of SBU
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Mayors for Peace
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Peace Boat
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International Committee of the Red Cross
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
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TPM Brochure
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About US
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Tehran peace museum
Tehran peace Museum is a member of the International Network of Museums for Peace. the main objective of the museum is to promote a culture of peace through raising awareness about the devastating consequences of war with focus on health and environmental impacts of Chemical weapons.
Currently housed in a building donated by the municipality of Tehran within the historic City Park, the Tehran Peace Museum is as much an interactive peace center as a museum.
On June 29, 2007, a memorial for the poison gas victims of the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88), along with a Peace Museum, was completed in a park in Tehran, the capital of Iran. These facilities were established by the Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support (an Iranian NGO), the city of Tehran, some other NGOs, and individuals and groups in Hiroshima.
The museum coordinates a peace education program that holds workshops on humanitarian law, disarmament, tolerance, and peace education. At the same time, it hosts conferences on the culture of peace, reconciliation, international humanitarian law, disarmament, and peace advocacy.
Additionally, the museum houses a documentary studio that provides a workspace wherein the individual stories of victims of warfare can be captured and archived for the historical record. The museum’s peace library includes a collection of literature spanning topics from international law to the implementation of peace to oral histories of veterans and victims of war.
Permanent and rotating peace-related art exhibitions displaying the work of amateur international and Iranian artists and children's drawings are also housed in the museum complex. Finally, the Iranian secretariat for the international organization Mayors for Peace is housed in the Tehran Peace Museum.
Who is who
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MohammadReza Soroush Date & Place of Birth: 1968 in Mahalat Medical Doctor He has been workng with SCWVS (Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support) since 2008 as CEO and with Tehran Peace Museum as board director. He was Director of Janbazan Medical & Engineering Research Center (JMERC) from 2003 to 2018 and since 2019 he is the CEO of the West Nikan Hospital, a general hospital in Tehran This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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MohammadReza Taghipoor Moghadam Date & Place of Birth: 1967 in Arak War veteran since establishment of the Tehran Peace Museum in 2007 he has been working with the TPM as the Executive Manager Was injured (both legs amputation) in Khoramshahr in 1982 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Shahriar Khateri Date & Place of Birth: 1970 in Abadan He is a Medical Toxicologist and co-founder of the Tehran Peace Museum. he worked for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapon (OPCW) from 2014 to 2021. Before joining the OPCW he was Faculty member of Janbazan Medical & Engineering Research Center (JMERC) and he is currently Head of International Relations of the TPM in adition to his medical work. This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Kunuko Yamamura (Babaei) Date & Place of Birth: 1938 in Japan Started to work with SCWVS (Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support) since 2005 and with .Tehran Peace Museum since 2008 as the Supervisor of Iran-Japan Cultural Exchange Project. Ms Yamamura passed away in 2022. Career: Translator/ retired teacher This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Date & Place of Birth: 1991 in Tehran LLM in International Law Started to work with Tehran Peace Museum as a volunteer in 2014; since 2019 she is the Head of Public Relations of the Peace Museum Career: Legal advisor s This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Sahar Seyyed Tafreshiha
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Date & Place of Birth: 1987 in Tehran PhD Candidate of Public International Law at ATU Started to work with Tehran Peace Museum as a volunteer in 2014 in different projects; since 2019 she is the Head of Education Department This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
Yalda Khosravi
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Meysam Taghipoor Date & Place of Birth: 1984 in Arak B.A. in Cellular & Molecular Biology Started to work with SCWVS (Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support) and Tehran Peace Museum since 2008 as a member of board and head of the documentary Unit of Tehran Peace Museum Career: Researcher & Journalist This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Hasan Hasani Sadi Date & Place of Birth: 1965 in Kerman Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Started to work with SCWVS (Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support) since 2005 and with Tehran Peace Museum since 2008, as the Head of volunteer guides Dpt. . Was exposed to Mustard gas twice (in 1984 & 1985) in southern front of Iran-Iraq border Very sever lung (Lung transplant candidate) & eye (Corneal graft) lesions This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Ahmad Zangiabadi Date & Place of Birth: 1965 in Kerman Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Started to work with Tehran Peace Museum since 2007 as volunteer guide Was exposed to Mustard gas in southern front of Iran-Iraq border in 1984 Very sever lung & eye lesions Mr. Ahmad Zangiabadi, CW victim and volunteer member of theTehran Peace Museum and SCWVS, died of respiratory collapse on Tuesday 18 November 2014 in a hospital in Tehran. |
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Alireza Yazdanpanah Date & Place of Birth: 1971 in Mashad Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Started to work with Tehran Peace Museum since 2008 as a volunteer guide Was exposed to Mustard gas in Khoramshahr in 1987 Very sever lung & eye lesions (Lung transplant candidate) This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Gholam Hashemi Date & Place of Birth: 1954 in Avaj Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Started to work with Tehran Peace Museum since 2006 as a volunteer guide Was exposed to Mustard gas twice (in 1984 & 1986) in southern front of Iran-Iraq border . Very sever lung lesion. Mr Hashemi passed away due to his sulfur mustard induced lung injuries in 2020 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Ahmad Salimi Date & Place of Birth: 1972 in Karaj Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Started to work with Tehran Peace Museum since 2006 as a volunteer guide Was exposed to Mustard gas in Biareh, Iraq (Public Section of Halabja) in 1988 Very sever lung, eye (Corneal graft) & skin lesions This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Hamid Salehi Date & Place of Birth: 1967 in Arak Ph.D. in Political Sciences Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Started to work with SCWVS (Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support) since 2005 and with Tehran Peace Museum as a member of board and volunteer guide since 2008 Career: Assistant Professor in School of Political sciences, Allameh Tabatabaei University This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Other members of Volunteer Guides Dpt.: Mr.Behrooz Abasi, Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Mr.AliAkbar Alafzadeh, Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Mr.AliAkbar Fazli, Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Mr.MohamadAli Karamoozian, Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Mr.Majid Malekzadeh, Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Mr.Asadollah Mohammadi, Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Dr.MohamadJavad Nakhaei, Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Mr.Keramatolah Nazari, Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Mr.Abdolah Nourani, Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Mr.Ebrahim Saadatfar, Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran Mr.MohamadHosein Shegarf Nakhaei, Survivor of chemical warfare / war veteran |
Eco-friendly cotton bags
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Peace Mug
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An introduction to Mayors for Peace
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سازمان بین المللی شهرداران صلح 
M a y o r s for P e a c e
What is the Mayors for Peace?
In August 1945, atomic bombs instantaneously reduced the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to rubble, taking hundreds of thousands of precious lives. Today, more than sixty years after the war, thousands of citizens still suffer the devastating aftereffects of radiation and unfathomable emotional pain. To prevent any repetition of the A-bomb tragedy, the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have continually sought to tell the world about the inhumane cruelty of nuclear weapons and have consistently urged that nuclear weapons be abolished.
World Forum on Solidarity and Peace in the Mediterranean
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World Forum on Solidarity and Peace in the Mediterranean will be held in Tarragona (close to Barcelona) from 18 to 19 of October 2017. The forum is an initiative from Tarragona City Council in collaboration with the European Institute of the Mediterranean (IEMED) and the Catalan chapter of Mayors for Peace. Mayors from all over the world can take this opportunity to meet with civil society benchmarks, international organizations and peace leaders and discuss the need to turn into a space for solidarity, cooperation and equality.
More information on final program and the registration process will be announced soon. To read the draft program please click here.
Nagasaki Peace Declaration
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on the 72nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Mayor Taue of Nagasaki delivered this year's Peace Declaration at the Nagasaki Peace Ceremony. This declaration which is called "No More Hibakusha" states that the Treaty On the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted by the efforts of National and International Organizations and institutions. But full implementation of that and elimination of all nuclear weapons requires more efforts by all actors.
To read this declarations, please click here.
Waste management in Deylaman
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In order to recycle dry waste and produce Vermicomposting from wet waste, Deilaman`s municipality has started a project on collecting and separating dry waste and wet waste at source and destination.
The aims of these projects includes having a clean and healthy city, creating new job opportunities, aiding the tourism industry as well as producing animal food.
Commemoration Of International Day of Peace in Pardis
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On the International Day Of Peace municipality of Pardis hold a photo and poster exhibitation.
The aim of this exhibitation promoting culture of peace and friendship in various aspects including environment and nature. and also attempting to nuclear disarmement and the prevention of war.this exhibitation welcomes people faced.
Commemoration Of International Day Of Peace In Kashan
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On 21th september 2016 , on occassion of International Day Of peace Kashan`s municipality held a ceremony . In this ceremony held the first festival of children painting with the slogan " children messengers of peace" and also the programs such as competition and show . at the end as the sign of peace and friendship the white balloons flew.
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Tehran peace museum
Tehran peace Museum is a member of the International Network of Museums for Peace. the main objective of the museum is to promote a culture of peace through raising awareness about the devastating consequences of war with focus on health and environmental impacts of Chemical weapons.
Currently housed in a building donated by the municipality of Tehran within the historic City Park, the Tehran Peace Museum is as much an interactive peace center as a museum.
On June 29, 2007, a memorial for the poison gas victims of the Iran-Iraq War (1980–88), along with a Peace Museum, was completed in a park in Tehran, the capital of Iran. These facilities were established by the Society for Chemical Weapons Victims Support (an Iranian NGO), the city of Tehran, some other NGOs, and individuals and groups in Hiroshima.
The museum coordinates a peace education program that holds workshops on humanitarian law, disarmament, tolerance, and peace education. At the same time, it hosts conferences on the culture of peace, reconciliation, international humanitarian law, disarmament, and peace advocacy.
Additionally, the museum houses a documentary studio that provides a workspace wherein the individual stories of victims of warfare can be captured and archived for the historical record. The museum’s peace library includes a collection of literature spanning topics from international law to the implementation of peace to oral histories of veterans and victims of war.
Permanent and rotating peace-related art exhibitions displaying the work of amateur international and Iranian artists and children's drawings are also housed in the museum complex. Finally, the Iranian secretariat for the international organization Mayors for Peace is housed in the Tehran Peace Museum.
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