The symbol designed for the British nuclear disarmament movement in 1958 is now widely known as the "peace sign". A number of peace symbols have been used many ways in various cultures and contexts.

It was a major development in the Northern Ireland peace process of the 1990s. It is made up of the Multi-Party Agreement between most of Northern Ireland's political parties, and the British–Irish Agreement between the British and Irish governments.

On Good Friday 1958, thousands gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square to protest nuclear weapons. They were responding to a string of test blasts conducted by the United Kingdom, the third...

The peace sign created visual history on Easter weekend in 1958, beginning on Good Friday. The icon debuted at a 52-mile (83.69-km) protest march from London to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment in Alderman in Berkshire.

Mar 20, 2008 · It started life as the emblem of the British anti-nuclear movement but it has become an international sign for peace, and arguably the most widely used protest symbol in the world. It has also...

Oct 2, 2014 · The peace symbol originated as a sign based on an “individual in despair . . . in the manner of Goya’s peasant before the firing squad.”

The peace sign featured prominently at Woodstock, and became an emblem of the hippie counterculture. Today, the Woodstock Museum and New York’s Bethel Woods Center for the Arts etch a peace symbol into the former festival grounds each year.

Symbol of nuclear disarmament, anti-war, anti-terrorism, solidarity, and peace. The peace symbol has been around since Good Friday, 1958. It was designed by Gerald Holtom, a pacifist and designer in London.

Apr 6, 2008 · In case you missed this gem in Friday’s ‘On This Day in History’ column (featured every day at the bottom of the Good News Network homepage), the peace sign was created 50 years ago by artist...

Apr 7, 2023 · Nevertheless, displaying the peace symbol, and deliberately using it to prompt conversations about the current nuclear threat, is a good way to begin the long process of helping one another...