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The 67-foot Peace Arch is jointly maintained by the United States and Canada. The concrete structure was the inspiration of Sam Hill, railroad builder and industrialist. Construction (begun in 1920) completed Sept. 6, 1921. The Arch commemorates the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in 1814 and the Rush-Bagot Agreement in 1817. Entered into by the king of England and President Monroe, these treaties provided for an unguarded United States/Canadian border from the Strait of Juan de Fuca to the Bay of Funday. Both treaties resulted from the War of 1812 with Great Britain.
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Peace College was accepted into the USA South Athletic Conference and began active status in the fall of 2003. Peace is the first women's college in North Carolina to join a co-educational athletic conference. For more information on the USA South you can check out their Web site at www.usasouth.net.
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Following Wolfgang Dietrich, Wolfgang Sützl, and the Innsbruck School of Peace Studies, some "peace thinkers" have abandoned any single and all-encompassing definition of peace. Rather, they promote the idea of many peaces. They argue that since no singular, correct definition of peace can exist, peace should be perceived as a plurality.[3]
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The Peace Council of Aotearoa New Zealand was originally set up in 1948 to fight conscription. When the referendum was lost in 1949, the Peace Council began the campaign to oppose nuclear tests and advance the anti-nuclear cause, and many other activities.
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During the first Intifada, Peace Now held numerous protests and rallies to protest the army's cruelty and call for a negotiated withdrawal from the Occupied Territories. At the time Peace Now strongly targeted then for Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin for his infamous order to "break the bones of Palestinian trouble-makers." However, after Rabin became Prime Minister, signed the Oslo Agreement and shook Yasser Arafat’s hand on the White House lawn, Peace Now strongly supported him and mobilized public support for him against the settlers’ increasingly vicious attacks. Peace Now had a central role in the November 4, 1995 rally after which Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, an extreme-right miltant.
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The intercollegiate athletic program at Peace College was begun in 1973. Competing in Region X of the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), Peace fielded teams in basketball and tennis. Peace joined the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) on a provisional basis in 1995. Since that year, Peace has added cross-country, soccer, softball and volleyball to its athletic offerings. Active membership in the NCAA was granted in August 2002.
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