The winners from the 2009 Swackhamer Video Contest, sponsored by: Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

As for myself I do not have a favorite video, I think they are all outstanding and all have a very important message to share with us.  We need to empower the new generation, not with bombs but with education and advocacy. We need to work together in the face of peace, embrace new ideas to settle conflicts justly and without violence.

“We can sum it up in one sentence: Our technical civilization has just reached its greatest level of savagery. We will have to choose, in the more or less near future, between collective suicide and the intelligent use of our scientific conquests…….Before the terrifying prospects now available to humanity, we see even more clearly that peace is the only goal worth struggling for. This is no longer a prayer but a demand to be made by all peoples to their governments — a demand to choose definitively between hell and reason.”
Albert Camus, Combat, 8 August 1945

“The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation initiates and supports worldwide efforts to abolish nuclear weapons, to strengthen international law and institutions, and to inspire and empower a new generation of peace leaders. Founded in 1982, the Foundation is comprised of individuals and organizations worldwide who realize the imperative for peace in the Nuclear Age. The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan international education and advocacy organization. It has consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council and is recognized by the UN as a Peace Messenger Organization.” - Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

Out of 120 videos that were submitted, I have posted the top 3 winners. Contestants made videos addressing the topic “Breakthrough: Putting the Nuclear Genie Back in the Bottle.”

For more information and to view more videos please visit: http://www.wagingpeace.org/
http://www.youtube.com/groups_videos?name=genieinbottle

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