In today’s world, peace needs to become more than just a word.

Today’s students are bombarded with television images, video games, and magazine articles/newspapers that give importance to conflict and war. Violence has become commonplace and accepted as part of our society and, for some students, it is a way of life.

It is our hope that through the Pinwheels for Peace project, we can help the students make a public visual statement about their feelings about war/ peace/ tolerance/ cooperation/ harmony/ unity and, in some way, maybe, awaken the public and let them know what the next generation is thinking.

This is not political. Peace doesn’t necessarily have to be associated with the conflict of war, it can be related to violence/intolerance in our daily lives, to peace of mind. To each of us, peace can take on a different meaning, but, in the end, it all comes down to a simple definition: a state of calm and serenity, with no anxiety, the absence of violence, freedom from conflict or disagreement among people or groups of people.

The above is an excerpt from the description of a project going on in some local schools to make peace a reality. The site is PinwheelsforPeace.com.

Kids are creating pinwheels as a demonstration for peace, writing their own personal peace messages on them. It's sort of the same concept as the Tibetan prayer wheels, which spin to send prayers out into the world.

Read about it. Find your own way to support peace.

Do your part to make our world in to what you want it to be. They are. And they're "just kids."

Yeah, right.

Visit Pinwheels for Peace.