The Exhibition, 1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe

From the early days of the 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005 project we looked for ways to reach out to the public, to quietly but powerfully put across an understanding of peace that is comprehensive and based on human security, and to project the faces and voices of peacewomen. The travelling exhibition has been one of our most effective tools for achieving these aims.

The exhibition was designed by a Swiss Design Company (Atelier Oi), who transformed our documentation of peacewomen into a light weight and flexible travelling PeaceWomen exhibition. The exhibition first opened in October 2005 in Zurich, Switzerland, and soon after began touring the world.

Goal of the exhibition

The exhibition's goal is to provide information about the existence and the importance of the peacework of women. Our target audience are all the people around the world: pupils, students, men and women, politicians, organisations, everyone can host and view our exhibition.
The core of the exhibition are the 1000 postcards that can be shown in many different ways (see enclosed photographs). Additionally we recommend that a supporting programme be developed to make the exhibition more interactive and to inform the people about PWAG's concept of peace for which the exhibition is an ideal visualisation.
Examples of such programmes can be: Lectures from texts of the book, panel discussion on peacework with peacewomen from the region and politicians or organisations involved in a certain area, showing one of the documentary films, guidance through the exhibition, programmes for
schools, selling the book.

The 1000 cards

The exhibition consists of 1000 postcards in the format 14 x 20 cm. The front shows the name and picture of the woman (as far as there is one), a quotation from her and her country and region of origin. The back of the card is designed like a postcard and has a short description of the work the woman does.

The cards are in 10 different colours according to ten thematic areas of work: reconciliation and reconstruction; women's rights – human rights on the way to gender democracy; the struggle for survival: minorities and indigenous peoples; economic rights and livelihood; justice and peace; stopping the hidden war against women: women, health and peace; a thousand ways to educate for a global culture of peace; women's efforts for environmental justice and ecological security; a cultural conception of peace, politics and governance. The exhibition set includes a color code (see enclosed photographs).

Technical Details

The 1000 cards come in ten different colours that refer to different thematic areas that peacewomen work in, click here to see the scheme of ten colour codes.

The exhibition set including 1000 cards and one book and flyers weighs 17kgs together with its box. The optional 1000 metal stands weigh all together 450kgs.

The book 1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe serves as an excellent exhibition guide, providing further information on each peacewomen and also introductions to each thematic area. One copy of the book is provided as part of the exhibition, and we encourage more orders of the book so that they can be sold during the exhibition.

Additional Information

For additional information about our exhibition please download the detailled exhibition folder: Exhibition Folder (PDF document)

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