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	GPPAC’s Peace Portal: Share Your Story an article by Signis World Catholic Association for Communication GPPAC (Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict) has opened a social networking portal the “Peace Portal”. The portal is opened to all to share their stories of building a Culture of Peace. click on photo to enlarge SIGNIS is a member of GPPAC and we encourage our members and friends to participate in the Peace portal and publish their stories of peacebuilding. Too often we hear about war and conflict but not enough about the stories of initiatives effectively promoting peace and dialogue. The 'Stories of Peace' challenge promoted by the Peace Portal wants to give your stories the opportunity to get heard, and maybe even published! If you are an individual or represent an organization working in conflict prevention, send us your short story on peacebuilding and get a chance to win a publication of your story in a book! The 25 best stories will be published in "People Building Peace 2.0" and all winners will receive ten copies of the book. You can submit your stories in July and August only! Click here to receive more information about the contest! You can participate by submitting any story about peace initiatives and peacebuilding. The format is flexible and open to your creativity: it can be an interview, a short article, or a blog. We do not recommend submitting essays or papers written in academic or highly theoretical language. Feel free to write about your personal experience and/or give your personal view and interpretation. We would like to hear about your ’critical reflection’ and about lessons learned: we are not looking for a ’perfect’ story or for ideal outcomes.		DISCUSSION Question(s) related to this article: How can peacemakers make peace more newsworthy?, * * * * * Latest reader comment: I am convinced that this is a key question for the peace movement, because it concerns the consciousness of people.  Consciousness is key for tipping the balance at key moments of radical change in history, and increasingly in our times the consciousness of people is determined by what they see and read in the mass media. This was also the conclusion of many organizations in their remarks for the Civil Society Report to the UN at the midpoint of the culture of peace decade. There is an interesting bright spot,  however.  The conferences on tourism for a culture of peace that are organized by the International Institute for Peace through Tourism (IIPT) have gotten good press in the countries where the conferences are held.  The reason is simple.  Tourism is big business in these countries and the IIPT can get the top political personalities to give speeches, which also brings good press coverage. I think there are important lessons here for the peace movement.  We need to link peace to business and through business to the government and media.  Tourism for a culture of peace is an excellent example, but others may be possible possible as well, for example, sports and entertainment.
This report was posted on July 7, 2011.