Peace works! : moving beyond 1915 remembrance / Amanda Julie Bennett [and thirty-nine others] ; foreword by Professor Emerita Joan Beaumont.

Other contributors: Rachel Jane Berry, Dr Mike Bowern, Sylvia Mavis Bowring; Michelle Ann Brock, Christine Mavis Burt, Alison Margaret Charlton, Dr Glenda Cloughley, Dr John Collard, Helen Curry, Karen Amelia Nellie Dahlitz, Lee Elizabeth Davey, Karen Ann (Annie) Didcott, Lesley Eileen East, Lisa Jane Forward, Dorothy June Foster, Bonnie Jean Goodfellow, Hazel Scott Hall, Lois May Holland, Ann Jacqueline Howard, Marilyn Anne Humbert, Adrienne Anne Johns, Colin Henry Keith, Judith Kelly, Keitha May Keyes, Geoffrey Alan McCubbin, Helen Hazel Clare McLaughlin, Robyn Margaret McPherson, Natalie Maras, Peter Robert Maywald, Margaret Mary Naylor, Moya Elizabeth Pacey, Suzanne Peta Prest, Sandra Jean Renew, Glen Haxton Riley, Manfred Schulmeister, Robert Shiells, Talitha Jayne Thompson, Garry Bede Tongs, Dorothy Walker.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Peace Works! Project -- Introduction -- Foreword -- A longer context: Since 1915 - looking back -- This old land -- Australia's baptism of blood? -- We remember them -- "Honest history" -- They simply were not interested! -- On reading Victoria -- Lest We Forget (Papaver rhoeas) -- Gallipoli -- In moonlight: -- In moonlight - 28 April 1915 -- 1915 Peace women's Photo Quilt [2015] -- Families forget me not: -- Fractured -- At the Beaumont Hamel Memorial France -- Finding peace -- The Myrtleford lads -- In Memoriam Erich Maria Remarque 1989-1970 -- Sergeant Thomas Richard Knight -- Hooroo cobber -- Plane to sea -- The boys from Blackboy Hill: -- The boys from Balckboy Hill -- Families hand me down: -- Postcards from the front -- The brown paper parcel -- Sock knitting triptych: Dymphna, Grace and May -- This ammo box -- The anxieties of millions -- War in a patchwork quilt: begun in war, finished in peace -- Corporal Norman Boyden's Gallipoli diary: Corporal Norman Boyden's Gallipoli diary -- Short Shrift Verse: -- Poppies -- Homecoming -- My boy -- Repercussions -- Slumber-in-Somme -- 1915-2015: 15 Homefront verses, then and now -- 15 Short verses for our 1915 Anzac Centenary -- "Je veux ma maman!" -- Fit--for-life meditations -- Memorabilia -- On a nail -- Only the wind -- She complains -- Lest We Forget -- Mannix, Goldstein & Conscription 1916: Mannix, Goldstein & Conscription 1916 -- Untold stories: -- Three little girls in school - 1911 -- The enemy -- "Miss Havisham" story from 1915 Southern Highlands -- The bun that had to change its name -- After the battle -- Plane spotting during World War II -- Insight into a 'mixed marriage': the war a mere beginning? -- Control Z -- The motorcycle man -- They also serve: Peace -- They also serve -- They stand and wait: -- Please help -- Our parents return -- The trumpet calls -- They came for us -- Dearest Mother -- Our boys were not the sons of Adonis -- The Wayside Chapel creative response quilt -- PeaceKnits 100 years -- Austin William Edwards: -- Lest We Forget -- Austin William Edwards -- Death of a soldier -- Community memory: -- Free-form Rose Window Blackout Curtain: Move from war to feel peace -- PeaceKnits banner blanket -- People continue to knit -- Voices from the community -- PeaceKnits 2015: After the pop-up -- "V" is for Vrede -- Gen 5 [Post-War life in 4 stanzas] -- Johann Otto Herpel: -- Johann Otto Herpel, a most impressive man -- Moving beyond 1915 remembrance: -- Mango soldier -- Genteel teachers -- Loss -- Snap-shop 1917 -- The soldiers' song -- White Rocks -- Anzac Villanelle - The meaning of peace -- Why remember Mary Gilmore? -- Words for peace -- The soldier -- Dear Dorothea -- On resistance: a Eureka moments triptych - from 1854 and 19+15 to 1942 and the present -- Our 1942 Eureka moment -- Anzac Day at Moruya 2005 -- The last voice -- Kokoda God -- 2016 Garage sale trail -- Beyond 1915 remembrance -- 1942: Ten weeks that forged our nation: -- 1942: ten weeks that forged our nation -- Post-conflict children: suffer not: -- Australia - multicultural country quilts -- A child's wartime memories -- Bridges to safety -- Secret garden child -- Hidden wounds of war -- Riverside Fun-gi -- Vietnam split our boyhood -- Secret Rainbow Serpents gathering -- Manfred's story: Manfred's story -- Commentary: -- Shoot peace not bullets -- A nation of "shirkers, quitters and losers"? -- The Guardian Weekly - an article and a response -- A message in the sky -- Lest we remember -- The concert that made me cry -- Reflections on seeing "Black Diggers" -- When hops and history rhyme: -- When hope and history rhyme -- One giant washcloth for mankind -- One giant potholder for womankind -- Peace -- Let there be peace: - Wings over war -- A prayer for peace -- Recipe for peace cake -- Yearning for peace -- What have they done...? -- Yearning for peace (a song) -- A unique memorial to war - and peace -- Peace rainbow -- After reading 'The clock of man' by Eric Lomax -- Spirit songs for Anzac eve -- Let there be peace -- Postscript -- Acknowledgements -- Brief biographies of contributors -- Bibliography.

"It may surprise some that this publication, which presents itself as a memorial to peace, could come from the Monaro tableland region. For this south-eastern part of New South Wales is home to Australia's oldest war memorial structures (remembering those killed in the Boer War: in Queanbeyan, erected in 1903, complete with gas carriage light; and in Goulburn, erected in 1904). The region is also home to the nation's grandest remembrance structure in Canberra's Australian War Memorial. In a country that boasts building more war memorial plinths per head of population than any other, it is an uphill struggle to seriously engage on possibilities of peace in place of resort to war. Hard, in fact to simply say: let us not forget the past while we build peace as our future. The Monaro has potency for indigenous peoples from its mountains and limestone plains to the sea – with a vast stretch from alps to coast and the most extreme mainland climate variations, As home to the Snowy Mountains and the Riverina, it has also provided potent inspiration for walkers, bikers, writers arts and crafts people. No surprise then that form this region has come a yearning to establish a memorial to peace. This Peace works! publications seeks to remedy our collective failure to ask questions of, and help each other creatively recover form, the past century of marching to wat orders. It supports listening and talking in community about real alternatives rather than just war as first resort. This publication and website at www.peaceworks.org.au provide starting points for community conversations about peace, and possibilities for us each as fractured selves to remember, reconcile and recover form our past. A creative starting point is the image below of the Queanbeyan Multicultural Craft Group. This expresses what the publication seeks to do: value peace and reconciliation as important steps beyond remembrance."--Back cover.