Growing Step by Step

Names for Peace now has 327 members!

We are also on almost 100 Facebook profiles with the Peacebox.

The Peacebox is an app you can put on your Facebook profile that allows anyone you know to sign up for peace right on your profile page.

Get it here http://apps.facebook.com/peacebox/

or sign up for peace on the web at http://www.namesforpeace.com

Growing Step by Step

Names for Peace now has 327 members!

We are also on almost 100 Facebook profiles with the Peacebox.

The Peacebox is an app you can put on your Facebook profile that allows anyone you know to sign up for peace right on your profile page.

Get it here http://apps.facebook.com/peacebox/

or sign up for peace on the web at http://www.namesforpeace.com

Now on Facebook

The Peacebox Names for Peace June 1st 2008 The Peacebox is being developed to give the Names for Peace community a way to connect, share ideas and participage in activities without creating social networking redundancies. We hope that you will sign up for peace and also explore what the potentials are for actually moving toward creating a more peaceful world. There is a lot of exciting work to do. There are a lot of ideas to be thought of and a lot things to imagine that haven't been imagined yet. We will be continually building here in this spot as we develop the application over the next few months adding ways to connect with each other, share stories and ideas, create projects, share photos and more. We hope you enjoy the application. Your ideas are welcome, we want this to be your community so feel free to tell us what to include in it.

Social Networking for Peace

Names for Peace
http://www.namesforpeace.com

Recently we've been looking at the possibility of running a social networking site for Names for Peace. At the moment the blueprint is for a site that integrates with other social networking sites as an application. A simple database driven site like Facebook is ideal we feel, but the redundancy is a problem for us. So many of our sign-ups are members of multiple social networks as it is and even two is just too many networks.

As a result we have decided that for the NFP network the opportunity will be there to add friends and communicate but there will be no need to go into NFP outside of Facebook or Myspace etc.

We're excited about the future of the network and are very interested in your thoughts and ideas about how this can be used and which features we should include or exclude. After all Names for Peace belongs to you.

Here are some things others have done for the sake of Peace

Video by former Senator Mike Gravel (Alaska), Democratic candidate for President.

In 1971, He waged a successful one-man filibuster for five months that forced the Nixon administration to cut a deal, effectively ending the draft in the United States.

He is perhaps best known for his release of the Pentagon Papers, the secret official study that revealed the lies and manipulations of successive U.S. administrations that misled the country into the Vietnam War.

More info at www.gravel2008.us.

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Here is a beautiful effort by a great young guy named Trevor Dougherty This video was nominated for "Most Inspirational" in the YouTube Video Awards 2007. It has also been viewed in 197 countries, from Afghanistan to Zambia. THANKS YOUTUBE!

We urge you to stand up for WORLD PEACE! ¡Paz de mundo! Paix dans le monde! Weltfrieden! Pace di mondo! De wereldvrede! Paz mundial! Мир во всем мире! Verdenfred!

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This should give us an idea of how our peace efforts can be buried and forgotten. Peace is about humanity, life, kindness, equality and respect for each of us as we live. Peace is not a new or radical or dreamy or fashionable concept. Peace is essential to each of us on this planet. One year before the second world war broke out the following video was created.


Peace on Earth is a 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon short subject directed by Hugh Harman, about a post-apocalyptic world populated by animals.

Peace Alive

Names for Peace
http://www.namesforpeace.com

You can't change people and you can't make them love but you can teach people, you can try to understand them, you can possibly forgive them if you are lucky and best of all you can love them if you choose.

Names for Peace was started in March 2007 with this in mind. That the world needs a way to connect all the peace seeking people throughout the planet into one voice. We are hoping to add something to that landscape and contribute to a growing voice around the planet that is getting louder little by little everyday.

Names for Peace is now live and taking names. You can simply sign up for peace on the site. There is no requirement to donate, give away personal information, there are no hidden levels of questions and there is no hidden agenda. You simply read the "Vision of peace" and if you agree you may sign up peace.

This is not a complicated concept. We simply believe that war is not a tool to be used for conflict resolution regardless of view points, opinions or status.

The site is attempting to be as compact as possible with all of it's content available on one page via fun AJAX coding tricks that allow you to reveal the sites content as you desire to view it. I hope you enjoy our work.

Names for Peace Team
http://www.namesforpeace.com

Moving Day today

The Names for Peace blog is moving to a new home today. Please follow the link below to our new home.

Our New Home!

December / January

I'm sorry there has not been anything posted here in quite some time. Recently I have lost someone I love due to illness and have not been able to give my attention to Names for Peace.

There will be much coming in the future and Names for Peace can only grow and grow. I wish everyone love and hope you keep Names for Peace in your heart while it continues.

The most beautiful thing about Names for Peace is that it really has very little to do with me. It is yours, it is everyones. It grows everyday little by little and as anything that is growing does, it will learn as it grows.


All the best to you and to those you love,

Michael Kerr