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Peace Fellowship
“Creating and Practicing Peace and Restorative Justice All Year Long”
Peace Fellowship is the activist arm of the International Hour For Peace in Northern Colorado. It presents and supports programs and events on peace, social justice, and humanitarian issues, and on the abolition of weapons of mass destruction. Our goal is to wage peace by educating, enlightening, and empowering peacemakers, lawmakers, and the public.
Events, activities, news, and activism opportunities are posted regularly on Facebook.
For more information, contact Hour For Peace Board members:
Interfaith Work
Nuclear Weapons Abolition
At the 2024 Academy Awards, Best Actor Recipient Cillian Murphy said, “We’re all living in Oppenheimer’s world” and dedicated his award “to all the peacemakers everywhere.” It followed Director Christopher Nolan’s earlier comments thanking “the individuals and organizations who have fought long and hard to reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world.” Murphy’s Oscars message came amid the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s Los Angeles–based campaign to leverage attention on the film to underscore that while Oppenheimer is history, nuclear weapons are not. The film motivated many stars to sign on to the #MakeNukesHistory campaign.
With the success of and publicity around “Oppenheimer”, Peace Fellowship is focusing on nuclear weapons abolition. While the Climate Crisis can destroy humanity in 30–40 years, a few nuclear weapons could destroy us and the planet within a few weeks, or even days! Peace is not only a fundamental human right, but essential for the survival of humanity and our planet.
“Disarmament and non–proliferation are critical not only to a peaceful future, but to our very existence … Let us speak with one loud, clear and united voice. It’s time to stop the madness. We need disarmament now.” — UN Secretary–General António Guterres on International Day for Disarmament and Non–Proliferation Awareness. https://www.un.org/…/messages…
Peace Fellowship began 2024 with a series of presentations at Fort Collins public libraries. You can view a flyer for previous events here. Similar presentations can be scheduled for and in other venues, and we can create and provide the publicity. They are free to the public and donations are appreciated.
We’re also promoting and sharing the 27–minute documentary Atomic Cover–Up | PBS. This film about the horrific aftermath of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima shows graphic details of the complete destruction of the areas and the unbelievable injuries and suffering of the survivors, many of whom died within a few months from radiation poisoning. Most of the footage was hidden from the public, labeled classified, and stored in top secret government and military locations. Only recently has it been available for public viewing.
We’re not trying to scare folks, but hope the horrors the film depicts motivate them to do everything possible to stop the use and manufacture of weapons of mass destruction. Our goal is to help people and governments stop war and resolve disagreements with diplomacy.
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded October 11th to Nihon Hidankyo, a Japanese organization of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for its activism against nuclear weapons. The 1945 atomic bombings by U.S. forces were the first and only nuclear attacks in history. In Japan, survivors are known as Hibakusha, and many have dedicated their lives to abolishing nuclear weapons.
Jørgen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said the committee “wishes to honor all survivors who, despite physical suffering and painful memories, have chosen to use their costly experience to cultivate hope and engagement for peace.”
This year’s prize was awarded against a backdrop of devastating conflicts raging in the Middle East, Ukraine and Sudan and was, in a way, a warning. “In a world ridden with conflicts, we wanted to highlight the importance of strengthening the nuclear taboo,” Watne Frydnes said.
Toshiyuki Mimaki, Co–Chair of Nihon Hidankyo said through an interpreter that their stories matter now more than ever before. “What I seek the most is peace, of course. The images of the children in Gaza covered with blood held by their parents remind me of Japan 80 years ago. Children lost their fathers in the war and lost their mothers with the nuclear bomb. They became orphans.”
Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a shift in his country’s nuclear doctrine, in a move aimed at discouraging the West from allowing Ukraine to strike Russia with longer–range weapons. It appeared to significantly lower the threshold for the possible use of Russia’s nuclear arsenal.
“It is very clear that threats of using nuclear weapons are putting pressure on the important international norm, the taboo of using nuclear weapons,” Watne Frydnes said in response to a question on whether the rhetoric from Russia surrounding nuclear weapons in its invasion of Ukraine had influenced this year’s decision. “And therefore, it is alarming to see how threats of use is also damaging this norm. To uphold an international strong taboo against the use is crucial for all of humanity.”
Efforts to eradicate nuclear weapons have been honored before by the Nobel committee. The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons won the peace prize in 2017, and in 1995 Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs won for “their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms.”
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on X that “the spectre of Hiroshima and Nagasaki still looms over humanity. This makes the advocacy of Nihon Hidankyo invaluable. This Nobel Peace Prize sends a powerful message. We have the duty to remember. And an even greater duty to protect the next generations from the horrors of nuclear war.”
Peace Fellowship is the activist arm of the International Hour For Peace in Northern Colorado. Our
goal is to wage peace by educating, enlightening, and empowering
peacemakers,
lawmakers, and the public.
Also known as World Healing Day and World Peace Day, the International Hour For Peace is a global effort launched in 1986 by John Randolph Price and the Quartus Foundation to offer people all over the world an opportunity to gather together for peace, love, understanding, and forgiveness through a simultaneous global mind–link at noon Greenwich Mean Time on December 31st of each year. Based on the Quantum Physics principle that thought can direct energy and thus create reality, the event is designed to synchronistically join millions of minds around the world in prayer, meditation, music, art, dance, poetry, readings, dialogue, and other ways to focus on and manifest lasting peace on Earth. Peace Fellowship is the activist arm of the International Hour For Peace in Northern Colorado. Our goal is to end all war by educating, enlightening, and empowering peacemakers, lawmakers, and the public.
In Northern Colorado, our goal is for people to not only gather to pray for and focus on World Peace and Inner Peace during that sacred hour, but also to connect with other peacemakers and peace, faith, and humanitarian organizations, events and activities. That way folks can create and practice peace all year long!
If you're interested in participating in the Hour For Peace and/or Peace Fellowship in any way, please contact the regional coordinator Victoria Gardner, 970 227-1539, [email protected]. No contribution is too great or too small.
“The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart;
the most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.”
— Carlos Santana
Churches for Middle East Peace calls for de–escalation, humanitarian access,
and addressing systemic issues in Israel/Gaza/Palestine.
cmep.org
Prayers for Israel/Palestine/Gaza
“The fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those who cultivate peace. Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show his works by a good life in the humility that comes from wisdom … But the wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, gentle, considerate, full of mercy and good fruits, without inconstancy or insincerity. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for those who cultivate peace.” James 3:13–18
Hour For Peace NoCo: www.facebook.com/InternationalHourForPeaceFortCollins
Restorative Justice Study Groups — Here's a sample of one.
Paul Gessler, Veterans’ Advocate, Conscientious Objector, and Nuclear Weapons Abolition Activist, is an active voice for world peace. He has written two books of poetry, “Peace Pilgrimage” and “Haiku Meds.” View selections of his work at Peace&Poetry.
Zonta Club of Fort Collins, zontafcevent.com, on
Facebook.
Founded in 1919, Zonta International
professionals work together to advance the status of women worldwide through service and advocacy. Contact local
President Julie Trone, Julie.trone@hotmail.com.
Fort Collins Bahá'í
Center, fchahai.org; 155 W Harvard St. Suite 101, Fort
Collins, 970 631-6150,
[email protected]. “The Bahá’í Faith is a system of belief and action based on the teachings of
Bahá’u’lláh; that all people are essentially the members of one human family, that we must all learn to live in peace and
harmony.” On Facebook.
Interfaith 
Chant & Dances
of Universal Peace, 7–9 p.m. every 4th Saturday
of the month at Unity of Fort Collins. These musical, embodied prayer practices including sacred phrases from many religious traditions are
led by Sára
Rain, 970-227-5275
, rain@trigoddess.org, trigoddess.org
Polestar Garden Community
Kirtan Kirtan | Unity Fort Collins — Wednesdays, 6–7:30 p.m., Unity
of Fort Collins Friendship
Room. Kirtan songs and chants are a mystical, spiritual, and beautiful way to invoke the Divine. For more information, contact
Vina Ketty at 617-571-5740.
Peace Over Violence — www.peaceoverviolence.org
History of the Hour For Peace — www.hourforpeace.org/history.html
Ways To Practice Peace — www.hourforpeace.org/ways.html
Prayers For Peace From Many Faiths — www.hourforpeace.org/prayers.html
Peace in Many Languages — www.hourforpeace.org/languages.html
For Christian prayers, music, and scriptures, please visit, like, and share “2 Healing Hearts Ministry: two healing hearts dedicated to healing hearts” at www.facebook.com/2HealingHearts. Our albums “God Speaks!” and “Fearless Faith!” are available at YouTube, Apple/ITunes, Spotify, IHeart Radio, and Amazon (buy an album for $9.49 or individual songs for $.99).
Paul K. Chappell’s work on “Peace Literacy,” “Waged Peace” and “The Road to Peace” Book Series — www.paulkchappell.com, www.peaceliteracy.org, www.peacefulrevolution.com
“Peace Literacy has the capacity to repair our broken parts and create a nonviolent world anchored in dignity, meaning, purpose, and compassion for all. Given the crucial role that Peace Literacy can play, I support the recognition of education in Peace Literacy as a universal human right.” — 1984 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu, 1931-2021.
We are standing on holy ground, and it is holy because we are standing on it.
The umbrella organization of the Hour For Peace NoCo is the International Association for New Science, a Wellington non–profit corporation (501C3 #84–1152107) dedicated to research and education in both traditional and non–traditional fields of science. Headed by longtime peacemaker Bob Siblerud, IANS brings together scientists, professionals and lay people. New Science includes topics and phenomena which cannot be explained by traditional science, such as the power of prayer and consciousness, yet have the potential for significant benefit to the health of humanity and planet earth.
The Northern Colorado observances of the International Hour For Peace are sponsored and supported by a wide variety of community organizations, both sacred and secular. Corporate/business sponsorship is $250 and completely tax deductible. For nonprofits, sponsorship involves donating $100 or more in money, goods, services, or any combination thereof. To be a supporter … all peaceful and loving contributions are appreciated! Please make checks to “Hour For Peace,” 501C3 #84–1152107, and send to Hour For Peace, 2051 Gray Peak Drive, #101, Loveland, Colorado 80538.
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“Blessed are the Peacemakers, for they shall be called the Children of God.” Matthew 5:9
