Let's think about peace some more.

How many ways can you say, 'Peace'? Try your hand at this peaceful quiz.

1. In 1939, Samuel Lewis said, 'Peace is fundamental to all faiths.' What activity did he use to promote peace?
2. The guy in the picture is named George, or Cat, or Yusuf. What's the name of his song that tells about 'good things to come'?
3. What do the Quakers call their approach to the subject of conflict?
4. What did anti-war protestors try to do to the Pentagon in 1967?
5. What organisation took the ruins of Coventry Cathedral as an inspiration for peace?
6. What do you call the philosophical position that opposes war on principle?
7. What inventor left his explosives fortune to the cause of peace and human improvement?
8. What did John Rabe use to protect his neighbours from a massacre?
9. What was unusual about Eugene V Debs' 1920 US presidential campaign?
10. What military organisation won the 2000 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for ordering its members to stop using live cannon, and just shout 'Bang' instead?

Think you've got a handle on all the peace movements? Release the peace cranes to find out.

Dmitri Gheorgheni

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