The World Wall for Peace is made to show how creativity can prevent and abolish conflict, and give people ways to walk down different streets than the violent street. Peace is every breath, every step, every mile. The Peace Empowerment Process shows that courage is the first peace power, and that every other, of over a hundred powers we have, is achieved through courage. These more than a hundred
powers form a complete circle, and the wholeness of the circle is nonviolent power.
-www.wwfp.org
From South Africa, to Japan, to Isreal, to China, to Russia, to the Netherlands, and even on our own North American land stands several Walls of Peace. These wall contribute to the Global Peace efforts. On Martin Luther King day of 2015, I stumbled upon a wall I had seen over a dozen times but never paid any attention. On this day the middle passage on the wall touched me so I had to go gaze over the whole wall, every tile. The messages were beyond powerful, written by groups, families, children, and adults. I moved to Jackson, Mississippi in 2006 and everything about the city speaks potential and the wall has inspired me to put potential into motion. Jackson, Mississippi (particularly Midtown) is the chosen location for the peace wall. There is not one person who can not benefit from the peace wall. The actual building of the wall will be a community effort, from painting onto individual tiles with messages of peace all the way down to the placement of the tiles onto the wall. This creation ends up becoming a peace zone, physically, mentally, artistically, and most important collectively. These walls are standing all over the world. Within the Midwest, the closest peace wall stands in Atlanta, Georgia in the Little 5 Point District. Jackson, Mississippi can very well become the first in the region to add onto the Global Peace project. There is a need for awareness and involvement within the city. There is a need for a relief. We can build it, visit it, and always be reminded of the history we created through peace.
