Peace Idea No. 15: “Think about consequences”.
100 Peace Ideas
by Joshua C. Chen and David Krieger
A couple of years ago, David Krieger authored a list with 100 Ideas for a More Peaceful World, which he sent around by e-mail. The ideas were simple, and interpreted “peace” in a broad sense. “Teach peace to children,” “Be generous with your smiles,” “Walk softly on the Earth,” “Fight against militarism,” “Share,” “Laugh more,” “Support nonviolent solutions to global problems,” and 93 further concrete proposals encouraged the reader to think of ways how she or he could contribute to a more peaceful world in their own daily life. I came across this list every now and then, on a website, as an e-mail, when browsing my mail archive. Sometimes, I stopped a moment to wonder whether simple things could really make a change.
Peace Idea No. 33: “Listen to your heart”.
David Krieger’s peace ideas came to the attention of Joshua C. Chen, Principal and Creative Director of Chen Design Associates, at a time when he and his team decided “to develop a project that would showcase creativity and the potential of high-quality design... The project would celebrate design in the context of communicating a much larger, much more important idea.”
And “celebrating design” in order to “communicate a much more important idea” is indeed what the book Peace - 100 Ideas does. The co-editor and the layout assistant of the INESAP Information Bulletin sat down to look at the book many times. We pointed out little details to each other, were amazed by the unusual ideas. The book’s 100 double pages miraculously depict the 100 peace idea’s meaning. And they are a feast in color and patterns and subtle shades. Nothing that can be conveyed in the Bulletin’s black and white print. We hope that you’ll have a look at the INESAP webpage, where a few more than the two (almost) black-and-white compatible pictures you see here are posted in color. And that once you see them thus, you want to go and get the real book for yourself!
Regina Hagen and Julia Veits
