YMCA Peace Week

YMCA Peace Week – November 19 – 26, 2011

Since 1984, YMCAs across Canada have spent the third week in November organizing special activities to engage children, youth and adults in exploring peace from a local and global perspective. Annually, YMCA Peace Week brings Associations together with international partner YMCAs and hundreds of school and community partners in a program that highlights our common interest in creating a more just and peaceful world.

The YMCA believes there is peace when our basic needs as living beings are met and our basic rights as human beings are recognized and respected.

Peace Week Medallions

Associations present the YMCA Peace Medallion to people and groups who, without any special resources, status, wealth or position, have demonstrated a commitment to building peace within their community or in communities elsewhere in the world.

The YMCA Peace Medallion, introduced in 1987, offers a reminder that it is possible to build a more peaceful world, community by community, and that everyone can be engaged in these efforts. By highlighting peace concerns and celebrating others who share these values and are engaged in similar work, we remind the wider community that these concerns are a core part of the YMCA’s work.

More than 1,200 individuals and groups across Canada proudly identify themselves as recipients of the YMCA Peace Medallion.

If you know of a youth or adult who is a peace keeper in your community, we encourage you to nominate them for a YMCA Peace Medallion by completing the nomination form below.

Peace Week Medallion Nomination Form 2011

Nominations close at 5 p.m., Tuesday, November 1, 2011.

Who can submit a nomination?

Any person or group in Niagara can nominate a peacemaker. The nominee should:

• Enhances the lives of people in their community, or around the world, by creating a more peaceful environment
• Finds peaceful solutions to violence, conflict, discrimination or injustice
• Makes a difference without any special recognition to create a culture of peace
• Volunteers their time and works without any special resources

Please complete the nomination form and email it to kmcilroy@ymcaofniagara.ca by Tuesday, November 1, 2011.

Selection process

A volunteer selection committee will review all nominations. Decisions will be based on the information provided in the nomination package. Nominees and nominators will be contacted by The YMCA of Niagara to confirm acceptance and discuss the details of the Peace Medallion Ceremony.

The Peace Medallion will be awarded at the YMCA’s Annual General Meeting on Wednesday November 23th, 2011.

If you have any questions about the Peace Medallion nomination process, please call Kim McIlroy at 905 684-3500 ext. 439. 

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