Let's Plant A Tree For Peace

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Each year in different schools, hospitals, police groups, and cities come together to plant trees for peace. Tree plantation is a symbol of peace. It provides a message for children and families of every culture and faith to celebrate peace and diversity together.



Children around the world create Peace Trees that highlight symbols from all our cultures and faiths on one tree to reflect the beauty of “diversity in unity”.

“Peacebuilding is different from “peacemaking” and “peacekeeping” in that it focuses on creating a long-term culture of peace, rather than solving existing conflicts or preventing old ones from re-occurring. Peacebuilding activities aim at building understanding and tolerance between individuals, communities, and societies and establishing new structures of cooperation. ”



Each year in different schools, hospitals, police groups, and cities come together to plant trees for peace. Tree plantation is a symbol of peace. It provides a message for children and families of every culture and faith to celebrate peace and diversity together.



Children around the world create Peace Trees that highlight symbols from all our cultures and faiths on one tree to reflect the beauty of “diversity in unity”.

 


“Peacebuilding is different from “peacemaking” and “peacekeeping” in that it focuses on creating a long-term culture of peace, rather than solving existing conflicts or preventing old ones from re-occurring. Peacebuilding activities aim at building understanding and tolerance between individuals, communities and societies and establishing new structures of cooperation. ”

 


Your School or Classroom

A Peace Tree Centre can be created in your school or classroom as a space that can benefit all students to find peace and celebrate diversity. The room will be filled with literature, music and art that reflects peace from many cultures and faiths. The Peace Tree Centre will integrate many parts of the curriculum including Language, Social Studies, Math (fundraising), Art, Music, and Dance. Creating a Peace Tree Centre is an ideal year-long project for English Language Learners/English Literacy Development classes. Many of the activities below can be carried out in the regular classroom as well.

How to Create Your Peace Tree Centre

·         Form a group of students who are dedicated to creating an inclusive and peaceful school and form a Peace Tree Club/Committee.

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Students should realize that creating a Peace Tree Centre will require work after school and requires a great deal of commitment.

·         Students can decide on various roles for individuals in the club/committee, depending on students’ strengths and interests, ie., Chair Person, Artistic Director, Marketing and Promotion, Treasurer, Photographer, Videographer, Webmaster, Blogger.



·         Brainstorm a list of ideas of what to include in the Peace Tree Centre and what it can look like. What will your school’s slogan/motto for peace be?

What Can You Include in Your Peace Tree Centre?

·         Some of the items in the Peace Tree Centre can include books on peace, music that reflects peace, a Peace Tree, your school peace logo and peace slogan, posters and student-made artwork that reflects peace, peaceful sayings, a peace quilt, peace mobiles, peace in different languages, peace leaders’ bios and portraits and a peace calendar. There are many other ideas and ways to reflect peace.

Sketch Your Peace Tree Centre

·         Students can create sketches and drawings of the layout or design for their Peace Tree Centre and share how they will use and decorate the space. Remember, the goal is to spread peace, so try to create a flowing movement when designing the Peace Tree Centre.



·       Once the plans are agreed upon, students can implement a plan of action and brainstorm ideas to determine how to bring the Peace Tree Centre to life. In order to have books on peace, students can put out a call to the school and announce the plans for the creation of a Peace Tree Centre and its purpose. The Peace Tree Club/Committee can request other students in the school to contribute peace poems, student-made peace books, peace posters and art that reflects peace and diversity.

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