We empower young people with knowledge and critical thinking on nuclear weapons and peace issues, through free school sessions and teaching resources.
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Make a peace crane with us!
Learn about the inspiring story of Sadako Sasaki, and make your own wish for peace, using our new tutorial video.
Share widely to spread a message of peace🕊️
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Featuring the commended and winning entries from @cnduk Peace Education's "Verses of Hope" poetry competition, "Paper Skin and Wooden Bones" is OUT today!
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August 6 marks 81 years since the United States dropped an atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. On August 9, Nagasaki was bombed. Both bombs killed over hundreds of thousands of people.
"Paper Skin and Wooden Bones" gathers the commended and winning entries from @cnduk Peace Education's "Verses of Hope" poetry competition and is available to PREORDER today!
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🚨 Looking for CND Peace Education Volunteers!! 🚨
🔗 to apply in our bio
Do get in touch if you have any questions! 🏫
We spent our Easter weekend speaking to over 1000 teachers at the NASUWT conference about our free school workshops on Peace and Nuclear Weapons issues! Link is in our bio to find out more about us and book a workshop ☮️
We are wishing you all a period of rest as we enter the holiday season! Here is a list of films to learn more and stay engaged over the break, reply if you have got any more 🎥
Content Warning: movie posters with images of destruction
CND Peace Education's Helen Griffin will be on the panel for this workshop!
Link to registration in the post.
📢Challenging militarism in education!
Another great workshop at our upcoming conference where we'll hear from some of those advocating for peace and resisting the growing influence of arms companies and militarism in our education system.
Register: cnduk.org/events/no-to-war-n…
ALT Poster advertising workshope panel at CND's upcoming conference. Text reads: "CND day of debate and activism. Stop nuclear expansion. End the war drive. Saturday 22 November. Workshop: Challenging militarism in education. Helen Griffin, CND Peace Education; Jinsella Kennaway, Demilitarise Education; Barnaby Swonnell, Youth & Student CND; Stella Swain, Palestine Solidarity Campaign."
from our awards ceremony for Verses of Hope!
It was an honour to watch these young poets deliver such powerful poetry commemorating the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
We will be posting more from the event, including readings from the winning poets
Join CND Peace Education for an afternoon of live poetry readings, community and celebrating young poets!
📅 Saturday November 1st
⏰ 2-4 PM
📍 BLOC Queen Mary University E1 4PD
RSVP link is in our bio
Tomorrow is National Poetry Day, and we are thrilled to be announcing the winners of “Verses Of Hope”: CND Peace Education’s national poetry competition judged by Antony Owen and Aaron Kent!
More details on poems, judges' comments and the poets here: cnduk.org/verses-of-hope-nat…
A popular legend in Japan states that if you fold 1000 paper cranes, you will be granted one wish. Sadako Sasaki, a young child 1 mile away from the hypocentre of the Hiroshima bomb, began folding 1000 paper cranes while in the hospital due to radiation from the bomb.
Sadako's brother Masahiro Sasaki, still surviving, stated:
"Sadako's wish wasn’t concerned with such an important matter as world peace. As she folded paper cranes she wished for her parent's debts to disappear… she wished to get well soon and go home, and so on…
The start of September marks the anniversary of the Women of Greenham Common's Peace Camp. The camp began in 1981, opposing Britain’s nuclear policy and their decision to allow US Cruise Missiles to be stored in Greenham and lasted almost 20 years!
We look at the Greenham camp as an example of a successful pressure group in our Critical Mass and Under Pressure Peace Education packs. Read more here: cnduk.org/education/free-tea…
@greenhamwomen has collected amazing archival photos of the camp over the years, linked here: greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.u…
