WILKES-BARRE — Sophie Kurbanov busily worked on her personal peace symbol poster that she intends to hang on her bedroom wall. Kurbanov, 10, is one of 20 children attending this week’s Peace ...

We all know the Peace Symbol, which Americans of a certain age associate with the protests against the Vietnam War. Fewer know that the symbol is much older than that, dating back to ANOTHER ...

Local News On the Common, gathering together as a symbol for peace Children’s Service of Roxbury attempted to set a Guinness world record by creating the world’s largest human peace sign on ...

An 8-foot-tall mock-decoupaged version of the peace symbol stands sentinel inside the front door of the Beverly Hills store. The irony of using hippie to hawk high-end isn’t lost on Doonan.

1970, and I was leaving to serve as a flight surgeon for the U.S. Army in Vietnam. My wife, Yolanda, gave me a chain with a silver peace symbol on it. She hoped it would protect me and also serve ...

T he new book,Peace: The Biography of Symboltakes a look at the life of the cultural icon On the Move The symbol made its first public appearance in April 1958, when campaigners for nuclear ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. The peace symbol stared out as an emblem for the British nuclear proliferation movement. Fifty years later, it adorns bumper stickers, shot glasses and ...

A United Nations-designated day, it was first established in 1981. On International Day of Peace, the United Nations encourages countries to observe the day by adhering to "24 hours of non-violence".