Charleston Peace One Day

What Explains U.S. Mass Shootings? International Comparisons Suggest an Answer Americans advance a lot of theories for why they have so many more gun deaths than other countries do. The answer is lying in plain sight.

Peace is measurable... with 23 indicators that give good gleanings on if a country is becoming more or less peaceful.
The U.S fell quite a bit this last year. Our neighbor, Canada is in the top 10.

The safest and most dangerous countries in the world - news - att.net The safest and most dangerous countries in the world

Well deserved!

Nobel Peace Prize Goes to International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons — The New York Times The group was honored for a new treaty signed by more than 50 countries — though none of them are nuclear powers.

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU FOR THE EFFORTS OVER THE YEARS TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN....

Please join us in thanking Charleston's Mayor Tecklenburg for his Official Proclamation recognizing the International Day of Peace as a Day of Peace in Charleston!

How will you celebrate Peace Day this Year?

Don't forget to be a part of the Peace Walk to celebrate the International Day of Peace!

Save the Date ! 9/18/16
The 2016 Walk for Peace
Sponsored By: The Branch of Peace Foundation

Main Event: Charleston S.C. (James Island County Park)
Global Event: Your Community

*Information/Sign-up: www.branchofpeace.org
Walk a Mile for Peace + Grow Peace in our Lives and in our World!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF1z7w-3O9E

Global Peace Index 2016 In the 12 months since the last Global Peace Index, increased conflict, terrorism and the refugee crisis suggests a less peaceful world. However, despite the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaBe2Cbw1gY

10 Safest Countries In The World From having extremely low crime rates to effective laws, we count 10 safest countries in the world (based on Global Peace Index's latest report). Subscribe (...

Click here to support Peace Pole on Indian Hill by Brianna Young On behalf of The Citadel's Sociology of Peace class and the Criminal Justice Department, we are seeking donations to plant a peace pole on campus! We'd like to dedicate this monument to Professor Reba Parker - this is her final semester teaching at The Citadel and College of Charleston before mov...

Sociology of Peace 2016 A tribute to peace and Reba Parker, for being inspirational, dedicated, and loving!

26th Peace Pole ...is coming to Charleston! Sociology of Peace classes ... are at it again. https://www.gofundme.com/gxptneh8

Sociology of Peace Class, College of Charleston, planting another Peace Pole, 2 for this semester.

Click here to support Charleston Community Peace Project by Fripp Prioleau My name is Fripp Prioleau and I am part of a Sociology of Peace Class at the College of Charleston. To promote a more peaceful local and global community we are raising money to install a peace pole in a location TBA in the Charleston area. This pole will resemble the one in the account's photo b...

Branch of Peace - Peace Walk 2015 Web site built using fundraising.myevent.com.

Sociology of Peace classes are planting more peace poles this semester. If you want to be a part of the process click the link below.

http://www.gofundme.com/cofcpeacepole

Click here to support Sociology of Peace: Peace Pole by Andrea Leehr At the College of Charleston we are working towards a brighter future where peace IS possible. Our wonderful professor Reba Parker has been planting peace poles all around the Charleston area for years, and this semester we are lucky enough to be a part of this process. Help us reach our goal so...

CofC: Reba Parker Defines Peace (V.) The idea of peace on Earth can be just that – an idea you write off among more pressing priorities. But to Professor Reba Parker, peace is something else entirely.

"The Race for What's Left": Fighting Over the World's Last Resources

MICHAEL KLARE

Wednesday, October 29

7pm in SSMB Room 129, (The auditorium in the new science building, across from Addlestone Library, at the corners of Calhoun and Coming Streets)


The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion---a crisis that encompasses shortages of oil and coal, copper and cobalt, water and arable land. With all of the Earth’s accessible areas already being exploited, the desperate hunt for supplies has now reached the final frontiers. This talk takes us from the Arctic to war zones to deep ocean floors, from a Russian submarine planting the country’s flag under the North Pole to the large-scale buying up of African farmland by Saudi Arabia and other food-scarce nations. With resource extraction growing more difficult, the environmental risks are becoming increasingly severe---and the intense search for dwindling supplies is igniting new conflicts and territorial disputes. The only way out, as will be argued, is to alter our consumption patterns altogether, a crucial task that will be the greatest challenge of the coming century.


Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies and has written widely on U.S. defense policy, the arms trade, global resource politics, and world security affairs. He is the author, most recently, of

Resource Wars (2001), Blood and Oil (2004), Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (2008), and The Race for What’s Left: The Global Struggle for the World’s Last Resources (2012). He is also the defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and has contributed articles to Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harper's, Le Monde Diplomatique, The National Interest, Newsweek, and Scientific American, among others. Klare has also worked with many non-governmental organizations in the peace and human rights fields and currently serves on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association.

This event is sponsored by CofC’s First Year Experience, the Masters in Environmental Studies, and Environmental Studies Program.






Michael T. Klare is the Five College Professor of Peace and World Security Studies and has written widely on U.S. defense policy, the arms trade, global resource politics, and world security affairs. He is the author, most recently, of

Resource Wars (2001), Blood and Oil (2004), Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: The New Geopolitics of Energy (2008), and The Race for What’s Left: The Global Struggle for the World’s Last Resources (2012). He is also the defense correspondent of The Nation magazine and has contributed articles to Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harper's, Le Monde Diplomatique, The National Interest, Newsweek, and Scientific American, among others. Klare has also worked with many non-governmental organizations in the peace and human rights fields and currently serves on the board of directors of the Arms Control Association.

This event is sponsored by CofC’s First Year Experience, the Masters in Environmental Studies, and Environmental Studies Program.

JEREMY GILLEY - SKYPE AT COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON CAMPUS

Founder of Peace One Day

(www.peaceoneday.org)

SKYPE fROM LONDON

WEDNESDAY - OCTOBER 15TH

ROBERT S. SMALLS ROOM 235

4:15-5:15 PM

Sponsored by First Year Experience & FYE Sociology of Peace Classes

All are Welcome


Directions: 175 Calhoun Street, Robert Scott Smalls Building, 2nd Floor, Room 235, Charleston SC 29401 Please mapquest to get there on time. Parking garage on St. Philips before Calhoun Street.

Across the street from Calhoun St. Starbucks & Kinko's/FedEx building/ corner of St. Philip & Calhoun Street.

Peace One Day Jeremy Gilley is an actor turned filmmaker, who in the late 1990s became preoccupied with questions about the fundamental nature of humanity and the issue of peace. He decided to explore these through the medium of film, and specifically, to create a documentary following his campaign to establish a…

Happy Peace Day

A new Peace Pole will be planted in Charleston on Saturday, more to come!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnlF-Lp7sQY&feature=player_detailpage

Introduction to Peace One Day 2014 Do you know Peace Day is 21 September, every year? In this film, the founder of Peace One Day, Jeremy Gilley, talks about his journey creating a day of cease...

Join us at the Charleston Tibetan Society & Dharma Center for a Peace Pole Planting Ceremony Sept. 20th from 3-5 pm. This will be a gathering of the community, faith groups & Peace Studies college students from the College of Charleston & The Citadel.