Peace Initiative By International Youth

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Peace Initiative By International Youth
  
  Hi!
  
  We're international students, from the United World College of the
  Pacific (Pearson College) in Canada. We hope to bring to you a Youth Peace
  Initiative we call the UWC Middle East Peace Initiative where we aim to
  collect signatures supporting non-violent conflict resolution.
  
  On December 10 (which marks one year of our petition, Human Rights Day and
  Nobel Peace Prize Presenatation), we will be sending all the signuatures
  collected to the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan. We hope to reach to as
  many people as possible and add signatures to our growing list of 11,000 so
  far from a 113 different countries. We can be contacted by email and all
  relevant information can be obtained from our website:
  
  <A HREF="http://www.uwc.ca/middleast/middleast.HTM">http://www.uwc.ca/middleast/middleast.HTM</A>
  
  Here is some information about where we come from and what our initiative is
  all about.
  
  Our United World College is Lester B. Pearson United World College of the
  Pacific.United World Colleges are a group of 10 international schools across
  the globe that share some common ideals about international understanding
  and attaining an all-rounded education to become leaders of a changing
  world. (For more information please visit http://www.uwc.ca)
  
  At our UWC of the Pacifc, we have begun a petition for Peace in the Middle
  East and beyond, where we're aiming to collect signatures from a diverse and
  large group of people. With each signature collected, we're hoping to
  educate and create awareness about non-violent conflict resolution in the
  Middle East and beyond. Our petition can be signed online at www.uwc.ca or
  petitions can be easily downloaded, signed and sent back to us. When all the
  signatures are sent to the UN, we hope it will show a strong international
  voice of people who are educated on this matter and are concerned..
  
  We hope for your support in this worthy cause and look forward to any
  questions/comments/ signed petitions you might have.
  Thanks in advance!
  
  Sincerely,
  Uma Selvanathan
  ananova_@hotmail.com
  
  Anna Thingnaes
  anna84@inbox.as
  
  Fiona Alexander
  fi_alex@hotmail.com
  
  Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific
  650 Pearson College Drive
  Victoria, B.C. V9C 4H7
  Canada
  www.uwc.ca
  
  Response/Rationale from our website.
  
  To whom it may concern,
  
  
  We are students at the United World College of the Pacific who come from
  around the world to study and live together. We are bound by a belief in
  peace and a rejection of violence. In response to the escalation of violence
  in Israel and Palestine members of the college community have gathered to
  discuss what can be done to ameliorate the situation. Our response is this
  package. Included you will find our statement and call to action on the
  current crisis occurring in the Middle East, as well as a petition that will
  be sent to the United Nations and other governmental organizations.
  
  We believe that violence is not a means to the end of this conflict. We wish
  to emphasize the United World College ideals of peace, justice,
  understanding and cooperation and the role they play in conflict resolution.
  We encourage you to join us in our mission by signing this petition, or
  campaigning for it in your community, then sending it back to the Pearson
  address so they can be compiled and sent to the UN together. Working for
  peace by any means possible to create awareness, understanding, and action
  in your community can also have a huge impact. We believe we can make a
  difference. Join us.
  
  
  
  Sincerely,
  
  Pearson College of the Pacific UWC
  
  
  
  Contact us at:
  
  Lester B. Pearson College of the Pacific
  650 Pearson College Drive
  Victoria, British Columbia
  V9C 4H7
  CANADA
  uwcforpeace@hotmail.com or rtyner@pearson-college.uwc.ca