What We Do

Atlanta Peace Trails (APT) is a map booklet of Peace Poles "May Peace Prevail On Earth"™, Peace Gardens, and Peace Monuments around the greater Atlanta area. To encourage walking, biking and riding the mass transit system called MARTA, the team of Carla Smith - Atlanta City Council Member for District 1, Dr. Gail Lash with TourismForPeace.org, Andrea Kay Smith with PartnershipsInPeace.org, and Don Grant with CraftLLC.com, has produced this booklet.

NEWS FLASH:

Next PeacePole dedication May 17, 2012 @ East Atlanta Farmer's Market 6pm @ Flat Shoals Rd (30316) near Glenwood Ave. See the website: FarmEAV.org Contact: Katie Hayes 404-398-2495

Atlanta Peace Trails Booklet

Booklet Cover

Please download the map booklet as a small (2.5 MB) pdf file from this link, or as a high-resolution large (40 MB) pdf file from this link
Adobe's Acrobat Reader for pdf files can be downloaded here.

Purchase a printed booklet @ $15 each from this order form

Purchase book "Peace Trails Atlanta: A Model for the World @ $25 each from this order form  (Projected published date is June 2010)

History

peace pole at HQ We have currently documented 39 Peace Poles, Gardens, and Monuments in greater Atlanta. Peace Poles have been planted at places like Georgia Aquarium, Zoo Atlanta, Little Five Points, FCS Urban Ministries, Atlanta Friends, Hillside Chapel, Phoenix & Dragon Bookstore, Simpsonwood Center, East Lake Commons, High Meadows School in Marietta, Champion Theme Middle School in Stone Mountain. and Columbia Middle School in Decatur. Peace Gardens and Monuments are featured at Five Points MARTA station, Woodruff Park, Carter Center, MLK, Jr. Center, Piedmont Park, and more.

Background

Bradford, England created a Peace Trail map of their city which was given to Atlanta from Dr. Peter van den Dungan, a Professor of Peace Studies at Bradford University.

In 1990 when Andrea planted her first Peace Pole, she took a picture of the group who planted it, and then sent it to the World Peace Prayer Society. They used that photo on their brochures and promotional material for ten years. It fulfilled a dream which Andrea had that one day, one of her photographs would go around the world. This picture did just that.

Get Involved

Buy a Peace Pole at worldpeace.org and plant your own Peace Pole! Make a Peace Garden. Celebrate International Day of Peace each year on September 21st. Make Peace a part of your life, in little (and big) ways each day. Walk the Atlanta Peace Trails with your family and friends. Encourage your school, church, and community organizations to plant a Peace Pole, or make a Peace Garden. Envision a world at Peace. Order our new book "Peace Trails Atlanta: A Model for the World" ($25), a hard copy, expanded version of the APT online booklet, featuring entertaining, uplifting first-person stories of personal peace journeys through Peace Poles, Gardens and Monuments (including a poem from Yoko Ono). Also included are a list of Peace resources, sample ceremonies, fun activities, and more! Projected published date is June 2010 - check back to order here using PayPal!

Benefit

Be part of making history! When you plant a Peace Pole, create a Peace Garden, or install a Peace Monument, we will list it online as an updated page for the APT booklet (An online form to list new Peace Trails will be posted after the booklet comes out). When children and adults think, speak, and act in peaceful ways, community life gets better. You and your community benefit when the "Peace Trails Atlanta" book is discussed, the APT are walked, or a Peace Education program is held in your community, school or organization. Sponsor our team to present a Peace Education program or assist you in designing your customized Peace Curriculum for your church, community, or organization.

Contact

Event Announcement:
Atlanta Peace Trails & Trail of Dreams

13 Moon Walk 4 Peace Inaugural Walk


Sunday June 13, 2010, 2-4pm in downtown ATL
Benefit for Spirit of Truth Foundation (501c3) coordinating a Walk Around America beginning in Atlanta on International Day of Peace 9-21-10 and 10-10-10 to launch the walk to other states. Registration: Karen Watson #334-691-3216

The June 13th (Trail A) walk goes from City Hall's Nikki sculpture to Woodruff Park & Centennial Park, up Auburn Ave. to MLK. A 3-mile walk. Wear sun protection & bring water.

DIRECTIONS for June 13: A map w/details will be attached to your Registration form

  1. Take MARTA to the Georgia State (E-1) station (first stop on east line).
  2. Exit to street (Piedmont) then walk left, to the Capitol, which you can see when you exit.
  3. After left, walk up hill (1 block) to Martin Luther King Dr. (at Capitol bldg)
  4. Turn right on MLK Dr. and walk (1 block) around the Capitol
  5. Turn left on Courtland (also called Washington) and walk 1 block (front of Capitol)
  6. Turn right on Mitchell St. & look for Niki sculpture on left at back side of Atlanta City Hall. (front of City Hall is on Trinity, but that is not where the sculpture is located)
This is our starting point. Remember to wear sun protection & bring water.