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Timeline
January 28, 2012
Pasos Peace Museum board and staff committee conclude a year-long project to create a new multi-year Strategic Plan for the organization, which is adopted by the board of directors.
December 14, 2011
Pasos Peace Museum adopts a new logo.
November 22, 2011
The International Network of Museums for Peace requests Pasos to submit a journal article for a book they are publishing on peace museums. Pasos' Executive Director submits paper for publication. (Click here to download a PDF of the paper.)
November 17, 2011
Pasos staff joins Global Youth Connect for their First Annual Youth for Human Rights Gala.
November 12, 2011
The organization is officially renamed Pasos Peace Museum.
October 7, 2011
Museum Staff and Board meet with Adi Foksheneanu of Metronome-Israeli International Peace Education Institute to discuss collaborative efforts in facilitating and developing the practice of peace education internationally.
September 21, 2011
PAUSE for Peace (Peaceful Acts Under Surveillance Event) takes place at noon on the International Day of Peace. People participate across the globe at noon in their time zone.
September 17, 2011
Museum members gather at Colors Restaurant in NYC to celebrate the International Day of Peace, recognize the strides made by the organization in the past year, and plan future activities
September 12, 2011
The Board Chair and ED meets with the Executive Director, Lois Saperstein, and begins collaboration with Center for the Arts, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness of the impact of the arts
September 1, 2011
Peaceful Acts Under Surveillance Event (PAUSE for Peace) is launched as a worldwide annual event to commemorate the International Day of Peace on September 21st
August 4, 2011
Pasos becomes a sponsor of the NoPassort writers conference to take place at the University of Arizona–Tempe, April 14–15, 2012
July 26, 2011
Program Director Lea Giddins joins Jeff Rudy of the nonproft “Where Peace Lives” for a Peace Café workshop and planning session
July 22, 201
Pasos meeting with SGA-USA to discuss collaborations and mutual programming opportunities
June 26, 2011
Pasos Program Director Lea Giddins joins Soka Gakkai International-USA and The Walt Whitman Birthplace Association for the presentation of the Walt Whitman Champion Literacy Award, which took place at his birthplace in West Hills, NY.
June 14, 2011
Lea Giddins joins the Pasos staff as Director of Programs and Exhibits. Lea is a graduate of Brandeis University’s International and Global Studies Program with a concentration in Peace, Conflict and Coexistence Studies, and in Art History.
June 11, 2011
Pasos board chair Nitza Escalera joins Nadette Stasa of “Peace Museum, NY” to moderate a group at their “Peace Café” event on Governor’s Island, NY.
May 27, 2011
Pasos hosts nonprofit Global Youth Connect’s (GYC) first steering committee meeting at Fordham School of Law. GYC Executive Director Jesse Hawkes is spearheading an effort to expand that organization’s programs to include Human Rights projects in the USA.
May 4-7, 2011
Executive Director William Repicci attends the 7th International Conference of Museums for Peace in Barcelona, and makes a presentation entitled The Inspiration and Challenges of Creating a Museum that Empowers the Peacebuilder in Each of Us
March 4-5, 2011
Pasos co-sponsors the 5th Annual NoPassport Conference (NYC) Dreaming the Americas: Global Change in Performance
February 12, 2011
A Gathering & Celebration of the Board, Advisory Board and Consultants
January 21, 2011
Pasos participates in Winter Celebration/Commemoration of Martin Luther King, Jr. at Central Park East II Elementary School.
December 2, 2010
Friendraiser—fundraising events at home of board members begins with first event
November 28, 2010
Pasos retains Synthesis Partners as consultants
November 3, 2010
"Using the Arts and Other Media as a Catalyst for Peace and Social Change—Board Chair speaks at Lecture Series at Vassar College
October 23, 2010
Pasos hires William Repicci as first Executive Director
October 14, 2010
William Repicci and Nitza Milagros Escalera meet with staff of NYS Sen. Thomas Duane to discuss peace issues, funding,
and joint cooperation
October 1, 2010
Pasos hires web designer and launches redesigned website www.pasospeacemuseum.org
September 22, 2010
Sharing Stories of Peace: Pasos sponsors peacebuilding event at Central Park East II Elementary School
September 19, 2010
Pasos celebrates International Day of Peace with event at Colors Restaurant, NYC
June 4 and 5, 2010
Pasos attends a strategic planning retreat hosted by Envision Peace Museum in Philadelphia, PA
November 7, 2009
The Arts and Business Council of New York offers its supports and begins consulting with Pasos
February 22, 2009
Pasos holds its inaugural event at the Schomburg Center
Speakers: Joyce Apsel, Professor at NYU, Betty Reardon, Founding Director of the Peace Education Center at Teachers College Columbia University and William Repicci, Pasos board member; Art Exhibit: Mary DeVincentis and Tobi Khan; “Suite 9/1—Together” by DanceWorks, the Dance Company of Westchester Community College; Cooperative Games facilitated by Alan Berger of Peace Through Play; “Reflections on Peace”: visitor interviews by Jose Luis Colon & Associates; Peace Quilt -- first Pasos artifact created by children who attended the event
January 2009
Video archiving of Pasos’ program events begins
January 21, 2009
Pasos meets with Ward Mintz, Executive Director of The Coby Foundation in New York City to discuss the development of its museum
October 6-10, 2008
Chair Nitza Milagros Escalera and Advisory Board Members Joyce Apsel, Janet Gerson, and Betty Reardon present at the 6th International Conference of Museums for Peace in Kyoto, Japan
October 2008
"Museums for Peace: Past, Present and Future" edited by Ikuro Anzai, Joyce Apsel, and Syed Sikander Mehdi published by the Organizing Committee, Sixth International Conference of Museums for Peace, Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto (Japan)
Pasos featured in book: "Museums for Peace: Past, Present and Future"
July 2008
Pasos establishes an Advisory Board
March 11, 2008
Pasos joins International Network of Museums for Peace
March 8, 2008
Sponsored peacebuilding roundtable hosted by Janet Gerson, Co-Director, Peace Education Center
January 27, 2008
Pasos launches its website
January 26, 2008
Business Plan developed
September 8, 2007
Strategic Planning—Board retreat facilitated by Michael Johnan
February 3, 2007
Pasos holds its first board meeting with 10 board members
April 11, 2006
Friends of Pasos: The Museum and Center for Peacebuilding is incorporated as a not-for-profit corporation
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