Peace Week Delaware adding events for September
Delaware's Movement for a Culture of Peace and dozens of organizations and individuals across the First State have joined forces for a second year to conduct a week-long series of inspiring, peace-filled events running from Sept. 17 to 24.
More than 25 events are posted on the Peace Week Delaware website. Additional events will be added up to the registration deadline of Friday, Aug. 11, at www.peaceweekdelaware.org/calendar-2017. During the inaugural Peace Week Delaware in 2016, more than 2,000 people participated in over 40 events across Delaware. Events included a show of children's visionary peace art, performances and concerts, public library displays from Lewes to Claymont, interfaith meals, yoga, meditation, films, an outdoor coffeehouse, plus rallies and peace marches in Sussex and New Castle counties. Many events will be repeated in 2017; others will be offered for the first time.
The purpose of Peace Week Delaware is twofold: To facilitate cooperation and collaboration among community, nonprofit and faith organizations, building the state's capacity to achieve their collective goals for peace and justice; and to offer peace-loving people across Delaware the opportunity to join together to recognize the possibility of peace and to energize their actions. Peace Week Delaware relies on numerous community sponsors to produce their own events, which are then registered and publicized by the all-volunteer steering committee, which has been meeting regularly since May.
Peace Week Delaware provides an alternative vision against the background of violence in Wilmington and across Delaware. The Movement for a Culture of Peace envisions a coordinated approach to search for alternatives to the prevailing culture of violence based on education, economic opportunity, anti-racism, equal justice, respect for human rights, equality between women and men, respect for LGBTQ rights, democratic participation, the free flow of information and disarmament of area neighborhoods.
