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Where it is
The West Hobart Peace Park runs between Liverpool Crescent and Forest Road in West Hobart. Prospect Place and Roberts Street run from Forest Road to the Peace Park. Google maps.
The West Hobart Peace Park statue is also listed on the Monument Australia website

Community support
West Hobart Peace Park Community Group Inc  is enthusiastic about promoting peace through this well used and much loved community peace park. We are a registered non-profit organisation. We organise and support activities to raise awareness about the global importance of working locally and globally for peace. 
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Peace activist Joan Fitz-Nead

Links and
resources
Animals in war - see Latest
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Artillery horse lines, South Africa, circa 1900.
A is for Animals: the A to Z of Animals in War
Published in 2009 by the Australian War Memorial
Website   https://www.awm.gov.au/exhibitions/animals/
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Legion Etrangere trooper with cat. (from https://02varvara.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/29-september-2012-from-the-russian-web-web-a-photo-essay-felines-at-the-front)

Other Peace Parks
  • Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park - established 1954 - includes Kids Peace Station.
  • Balkans Peace Park Project - ecology, conservation and tourism aiming to build the Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro cross-border region as a peace park.
  • Jordan River Peace Park - established in 1994 as part of the Jordan Israel Peace Treaty
  • The Island of Ireland Peace Park - opened in 1998 at Messines in France.
  • Australian National Capital Peace Park - opened in Canberra in 1990.
  • Peace Arch Provincial Park - a cross-border park between British Columbia in Canada and Washington State in the USA established in 1921. 
  • Penan Peace Park - proposed by Malaysia's Indigenous Penan communities as a model to integrate forest protection and socio-economic development. 
  • Condor Kutuku conservation corridor peace park - a project in conflict resolution through conservation created in 2004 between Ecuador and Peru.
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