Pacifism

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
Keywords: peace | pacifism | compromise |
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• Peace inspiring national flags and confict compromise flags
• Peace Sign Flag (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmment)
• «No bomb» flag
• International Banner of Peace (Roerich Movement flag)
• UN CyberSchool Bus’ contest Peace Flag Stamp (2000)
• Companion Flag
• Lifestream unity flag
• U.S. pacifist flags
  • Hip Hop Unity Flag
• «Nie wieder Hiroshima» flag (Austria)
• East German peace dove flag
• Italian pacifist flags
• «Breaking the ice» project (Israel and Palestine in Antartica)

• Earth flags
• Flags in politics

Peace inspiring and confict compromise flags

The Cyprus flag is quite common on the “Greek” side. You can see it hoisted in many places. It is more frequent view than the Greek flag. The “Greek” Cypriots are quite proud in their flag.
Dov Gutterman, 28 May 1999

And yet it was deliberately designed to be a “neutral” flag, in order to inspire the peace between the two communities (greek and turkish cypriots). The very same occured with the Irish flag, where green stands for the Irish, the orange for the protestants and the white for peace among them — the very same flag that was even prohibited in Northern Ireland because it may offend one of the conflicting parts! Other examples to hand are the unofficial green-white-pink flag of Newfoundland (similar symbolism as abov