CND Peace Education

Make a peace crane with us! Learn about the inspiring story of Sadako Sasaki, and make your own wish for peace, using our new tutorial video. Share widely to spread a message of peace🕊️ youtu.be/GIMyDiqDR1I @CNDuk @jpflondon @japansocietylon @PeaceMuseumUK @TeachPrimary

When The Wind Blows (1986)

A House of Dynamite (2025)

We are wishing you all a period of rest as we enter the holiday season! Here is a list of films to learn more and stay engaged over the break, reply if you have got any more 🎥 Content Warning: movie posters with images of destruction

CND Peace Education's Helen Griffin will be on the panel for this workshop! Link to registration in the post.

from our awards ceremony for Verses of Hope! It was an honour to watch these young poets deliver such powerful poetry commemorating the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We will be posting more from the event, including readings from the winning poets

Join CND Peace Education for an afternoon of live poetry readings, community and celebrating young poets! 📅 Saturday November 1st ⏰ 2-4 PM 📍 BLOC Queen Mary University E1 4PD RSVP link is in our bio

Tomorrow is National Poetry Day, and we are thrilled to be announcing the winners of “Verses Of Hope”: CND Peace Education’s national poetry competition judged by Antony Owen and Aaron Kent! More details on poems, judges' comments and the poets here: cnduk.org/verses-of-hope…

...Fundamentally, what Sadako did - having wishes and folding paper cranes - is within reach of anyone, and orizuru have become a tool for all to express a common wish for peace. It is a simple story. Please let people know how the movement started."

Sadako's brother Masahiro Sasaki, still surviving, stated: "Sadako's wish wasn’t concerned with such an important matter as world peace. As she folded paper cranes she wished for her parent's debts to disappear… she wished to get well soon and go home, and so on…

A popular legend in Japan states that if you fold 1000 paper cranes, you will be granted one wish. Sadako Sasaki, a young child 1 mile away from the hypocentre of the Hiroshima bomb, began folding 1000 paper cranes while in the hospital due to radiation from the bomb.

@greenhamwomen has collected amazing archival photos of the camp over the years, linked here: greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk/visual-archive/

We look at the Greenham camp as an example of a successful pressure group in our Critical Mass and Under Pressure Peace Education packs. Read more here: cnduk.org/education/free…

The start of September marks the anniversary of the Women of Greenham Common's Peace Camp. The camp began in 1981, opposing Britain’s nuclear policy and their decision to allow US Cruise Missiles to be stored in Greenham and lasted almost 20 years!

How many people were killed by the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? youtu.be/X5MBq9rQdG0?si… via @YouTube

On This Day in the year 1945 at 8:16 a.m. Japanese time, an American B-29 bomber, the "Enola Gay", drops the world's first atom bomb, over the city of #Hiroshima. Approximately 80 thousand killed & 35 thousand were injured. #Hiroshima80

☮️ Ahead of tomorrow's #HiroshimaDay commemoration, CND Vice-President @jeremycorbyn sends his greetings for peace from Japan. 🕊️ CND groups across the country are marking the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki this week. Find an event near you: cnduk.org/events/no-more…