Peace Resource Center at Wilmington College

06/11/2026

05/09/2026

Mother’s Day originated as an anti-war message of peace.

In the 1800's, Julia Ward Howe, original advocate for “Mother’s Day” and writer of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” nursed and tended the wounded during the civil war. She worked with the widows and orphans of soldiers on both sides of the war, and realized that the effects of the war go...

04/30/2026

04/30/2026

04/30/2026

The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance Collection is now live! https://www.wilmington.edu/news/peace-resource-center-receives-oak-ridge-environmental-peace-alliance-archives

You can view the collection at: https://library.wilmington.edu/c.php?g=1043302&p=10854876

From 1944, the Y12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, TN, secretly developed and produced enriched uranium for the nuclear weapons that the U.S. military dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945, during the last days of World War II. The atomic bomb devastated the city, killing as many as 1...

04/22/2026

Part two of Nuclear Ohio- Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant! These slides talk about the community effects of the plant and different ways community members are affected to this day.

04/20/2026

New series- Nuclear Ohio: Exploring nuclear around us. For our first part of this series we are exploring Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.

04/13/2026

Nuclear stockpiles- what they are, and how much we can estimate they cost. Find out above and let us know your thoughts on the reflection questions!

04/06/2026

PRC Open House today. 世界平和を祈るように🥺。

04/02/2026

Please click the linkhttps://inmp.net/PDFs/INMP%20Coordinators%20bulletin%20April%202026.pdf to see an important message from the Tehran Peace Museum. The Tehran Peace Museum was founded in 2011. It is unique in its body of volunteers, men and women who have been directly affected by chemical weapons in the past, and who actively voice the need for creating peaceful societies in today’s world. At this time, they are once again experiencing the effects of noxious clouds produced by the bombing of their city. Let us work together to pursue a path of peace rather than the violence of war.