Resources:
- NEW Video Interview of the Artist
In this short video, Rebecca Westerman talks about the nature of the UCI Peace Flag Project. Who is involved? What is the intention of the project? Share this link with your friends! Also, don't forget to send them a Peace Flag Project poster or postcard.
- NEW Help Get the Word Out!
We have thousands of beautiful posters and postcards and we need people to help plaster them around campus and the community. If you can help, please contact us at campaignforconscience@gmail.com.
- Campaign for Conscience in New U
Check out the article featuring the Peace Flag Project in a recent edition of New University. Also read our letter to the editors.
- Volunteer Sign-Up Sheet:
See what we need help with, by clicking here. We currently need volunteers for Wayzgoose, our Flag Making Parties, Peace Flag Project Installation Preparation, and mostly, the Peace Flag Project event week (May 19th-24th) — move between these different sheets by following the link above and then clicking on the corresponding buttons. If you want to sign-up to volunteer, click "edit this page" and access the volunteer account with username: cfcvolunteer@gmail.com and password: ucipeace. Problems signing up? Email us at campaignforconscience@gmail.com
- The Informed Citizen Quiz:
Are you an informed citizen? Here you will find a quick quiz highlighting some of the conflict that is occuring in the world today. Bring the completed quiz to the Campaign for Conscience booth at UCI's Peace Flag Project for a free prize. It's easy. Answers are printed below the quiz questions.
- Equanimity Handout:
This document contains information about developing equanimity, a key goal in designing the peace flags.
- Resources Used in Making the Peace Flags:
This page contains links to the Participant Contract, Instructions and Hints, the List of Conflicts (now outdated) and other resources that were used by the groups in making their flags.
Our Friends:
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Research Links:
- NEW Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research
This group publishes yearly reports called Conflict Barometers, which, as their website says, describe "recent trends in conflict development, escalations, settlements."
- International Crisis Group:
Country Reports
This site gives helpful, succinct descriptions of individual conflicts. Select a country from the drop down menu. After the initial description of each conflict, there is another helpful link urging you to click it for a more detailed history of the country/conflict.
- International Crisis Group:
Crisis Watch Database
This resource is designed to provide busy readers in the policy community, media, business and interested general public with a succinct regular update on the state of play in all the most significant situations of conflict or potential conflict around the world.
- BBC World News
The database of articles is so huge that it’s sometimes hard to find something relevant, but if they have a “Quick Guide” to the conflict you’re looking for, you’ve hit the jackpot.
- Human Rights Watch
Search by continent, and country for articles relevant to the atrocities you’re looking for. In your search results also look for little yellow “Essential Background” boxes to pop up on the right hand side of the page, they’re uber-helpful.
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
An integral part of the USHMM is the Committee on Conscience, (click on "conscience" on the top menu bar) which aims to provide a voice for conscience amidst the clatter of modern interests. Their website has neat tools that aim to track and prevent current conflicts from escalating into genocidal tragedies, like a collaborative project with Google Earth that provides visual evidence of the current genocide in Sudan.
- Responsibility to Protect
Engaging Civil Society Project
The Responsibility to Protect populations from genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity is an international commitment by governments to prevent and react to grave crises, wherever they may occur. In 2005, world leaders agreed, for the first time, that states have a primary responsibility to protect their own populations and that the international community has a responsibility to act when these governments fail to protect the most vulnerable among us. The Responsibility to Protect-Engaging Civil Society (R2PCS) project works to advance Responsibility to Protect (R2P) and to promote concrete policies to better enable governments, regional organizations and the U.N. to protect vulnerable populations. Their site contains helpful documents and information.
- Prevent Genocide's News Monitor
Similar to the Crisis Watch Reports & Database by the International Crisis Group (above).
- Mahatma Gandhi Site
An inspirational and informative resource on Gandhi's writings/teachings on non-violence.
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