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PCC Coating Pyrolytic Chromium Carbide Coating coating is a technology for protection and reworking of rapidly wearing parts of manufacturing equipment working in extreme environmental conditions, using vacuum coating deposition technology.
PCC streetcar The PCC (Presidents' Conference Committee) streetcar (tram) design was first built in the United States in the 1930s. The design proved successful in its native country, and after World War II was licensed for use elsewhere in the world.
PCC Tabor Szczakowa PCC Tabor Szczakowa is a Polish rail company operating as a PCC Rail Szczakowa dependent company. PCC Tabor Szczakowa is responsible for repairs and maintenance of locomotives, mainly ET21, ET22, SM48, SM42, SM30, ST43 and ST44.
PCI Configuration Space One of the major improvements Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) had over other I/O architectures was its configuration mechanism. In addition to the normal memory-mapped and port spaces, each device on the bus has a configuration space.
PCI DSS PCI DSS stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. It was developed by the major credit card companies as a guideline to help organizations that process card payments prevent credit card fraud, hacking and various other security issues.
PCI multimedia audio device PCI multimedia audio device is commonly used to represent unknown sound cards in Windows device managers when there is no device driver installed for it. This problem is usually encountered when an operating system is first installed or re-installed.
PCI-SIG The PCI-SIG or Peripheral Component Interconnect Special Interest Group is an electronics industry consortium responsible for specifying the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI), PCI-X, and PCI Express (PCIe) computer buses.
PCIA-II/MAP Modifying Attributions of Parents Intervention The Parent-Child Interaction Assessment-II Modifying Attributions of Parents (PCIA-II/MAP; Bohr, 2005, 2004a, 2004b; Bohr & Holigrocki, 2005) intervention is a brief cognitive-behavioral manualized treatment for parents in high-risk families. A parent and child are video recorded during a structured play activity (see PCIA-II; Holigrocki, Kaminski, & Frieswyk, 1999, 2002) and sessions involve the therapist and parent discussing excerpts from the video and conclude with a post-treatment assessment.
PCLSRing PCLSRing (often also colloquially known as PC Lusering) is the term used in the ITS operating system for a consistency principle in the way one process accesses the state of another process. One scenario causes particular complications:
PCM adaptor A PCM adaptor is a device used for recording digital audio in the PCM format, which in turn connects to a video cassette recorder (acting as a transport) for storage and playback of the digital audio information.
PComb3H pComb3H, a derivative of pComb3 optimized for expression of human fragments, is a phagemid used to express proteins such as zinc finger proteins and antibody fragments on phage pili for the purpose of phage display selection.
PCP theorem The PCP theorem, proven in the early 1990's, states that every NP problem has a very efficient probabilistically checkable proof system. This theorem has the following astonishing consequence: every proof for any statement in propositional logic can be formalized, so that one can check whether it is correct or not by only reading a constant number of letters from it!
PCPal PCPal is an easy-to-use freeware program from Gteko that assists users in optimizing and protecting their PC. The program continuously monitors the PC and its environment, notifying the user about problems and important issues the user should be aware of, and providing the user with automated fixes, links and explanations for overcoming the detected issues.
PCS switching center PCS switching center: In personal communications service, a facility that (a) supports access-independent call control/service control, and connection control (switching) functions, and (b) is responsible for interconnection of access and network systems to support end-to-end services.
PCS System A PCS System in a personal communications service, is a collection of facilities (hardware, software, and network components) that provides some combination of personal mobility, terminal mobility, and service profile management.
PCSX PCSX is a free console emulator which allows software and peripherals designed to be used with the Sony PlayStation to be used with personal computers. It is currently available for a number of different operating systems including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Xbox, the Sega Dreamcast and various Linux distributions.
PCT Gazette The PCT Gazette is a weekly bilingual publication of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It is published by the International Bureau of WIPO pursuant to Article 55 of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), which provides a system for filing international (patent) applications.
PCT Newsletter The PCT Newsletter is a monthly publication of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). It contains "up-to-date news about the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT)", PCT Applicant's Guide, Volume I, Chapter I, item 7, Retrieved March 25, 2006.
Pdftk pdftk or the pdf toolkit is an open source cross-platform tool for manipulating PDF documents. Pdftk is basically a front end to the iText library, capable of splitting, merging, encrypting, decrypting, uncompressing, recompressing, and repairing PDF's.
PD Ultraman Battle Collection 64 is a role playing game based on the Japanese super hero Ultraman. PD Ultraman Battle Collection 64 is one of the few Nintendo 64 games to make use of the transfer pak, the game can be connected with any Game Boy game to create a character in PD Ultraman Battle Collection 64 from the Game Boy game's data.
PD-4501 Scenicruiser The GMC PD-4501 Scenicruiser, manufactured exclusively for Greyhound Lines, is a distinguished coach used during 1950s to 1970s. It was first rolled out in July 1954, and in total, 1001 of these buses were made between 1954 to 1956.
PDC World Darts Championship The PDC World Darts Championship is the biggest of the PDC tournaments, held at the Circus Tavern, Purfleet, Essex beginning in late December and finishing in early January. The tournament is currently sponsored by Ladbrokes.
PDC World Grand Prix Darts The SkyBet World Grand Prix is a PDC darts tournament now held in Dublin each October. Its original venue was the Casino Rooms in Rochester, Kent between 1998 and 2000, before moving in 2001 to its current home at the CityWest Hotel in Dublin.
PDCAAS Protein Digestibility Corrected Amino Acid Score (PDCAAS) is a method of evaluating the protein quality based on the amino acid requirements of humans. The PDCAAS rating is a fairly recent evaluation method (it was adopted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations/World Health Organization (FAO/WHO) in 1993) and emerged due to weaknesses in earlier evaluations of protein quality, such as the Protein Efficiency Ratio (PER), Amino Acid Score (AAS), Biological Value (BV) and the Nitrogen Protein Utilization (NPU) methods.
PDE surface PDE surfaces are used in geometric modelling and computer graphics for creating smooth surfaces conforming to a given boundary configuration. PDE surfaces utilise partial differential equations to generate a surface which usually satisfy a mathematical boundary value problem.
PDE5 inhibitor Cyclic nucleotide phosphodisterases are a group enzymes that hydrolyze cyclic nucleotides such as cyclic AMP and cyclic GMP. These multiple forms or subtypes of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase were initially isolated from rat brain by Uzunov and Weiss in 1972 and were soon afterward shown to be selectively inhibited by a variety of drugs in brain and other tissues (Weiss,1975; Fertel and Weiss, 1976).
PDF Download PDF Download is a free Firefox extension that allows the user to choose whether you want to view a PDF file inside a browser (as PDF or HTML) or you want to download it. This extension prevents the user from clicking on a link and then discovering that Firefox is loading the Adobe or other resource-intensive PDF plug-in and is trying to show a PDF file directly inside your browser.
PDF/X PDF/X is an ISO defined subset of the PDF standard. The purpose of PDF/X is to facilitate graphics exchange, and it therefore has a series of printing related requirements, which do not apply to standard PDF files.
PDF417 PDF417 is a 2-dimensional barcode (also known as matrix code) used in a variety of applications, including Transport, Identification cards, and Inventory management. It is best suited for cases where information needs to move with an item or document.
PDFCreator PDFCreator is an application for converting documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) format on Microsoft Windows operating system. Once installed, it allows the user to select PDFCreator as their printer, allowing almost any application to print to PDF.
PDIC The professional Diving Instructors Corporation (PDIC) is an international SCUBA training and Certification agency. With an estimated 5 million active recreational divers, this adventure sport is being enjoyed by divers from all walks of life.
PDM Racing PDM Racing is a racing team in the Indy Racing League and USAC Silver Crown series owned by Paul Diatlovich. Almost always a low budget team and affectionately (or unaffectionally) dubbed "Poor Dumb Mechanics" by one of its former owners, it is known to make the most out of mediocre equipment.
PDMU PDMU or PentathlĂłn Deportivo Militarizado Universitario (Universitary Militarized Sports Pentathlon), is a youth organization that was created in Mexico in 1938. PDMU pursues "the greatness of the homeland" by training Mexican boys and girls.
PDP-1 The PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) was the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series and was first produced in 1960. It is famous for being the computer most important in the creation of hacker culture, at MIT, BBN and elsewhere.
PDP-10 The PDP-10 was a computer manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from the late 1960s on; the name stands for "Programmed Data Processor model 10". It was the machine that made time-sharing common; it looms large in hacker folklore because of its adoption in the 1970s by many university computing facilities and research labs, the most notable of which were MIT's AI Lab and Project MAC, Stanford's SAIL, and Carnegie Mellon University.
PDP-11/44 The PDP-11/44, introduced in 1980, was the last of the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11 series of minicomputers implemented in discrete logic. The 11/44 processor consists of five boards, options were floating point (FP-11, one board) and commercial instruction set (CIS, two boards).
PDP-11/73 The PDP-11/73 (strictly speaking, the MicroPDP-11/73) was the third generation of the PDP-11 series of minicomputers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation to use LSI processors. This system used the "Jaws-11" chip set and the Q-Bus.
PDP-6 The PDP-6 (Programmed Data Processor-6) was a computer model developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in 1963. It was influential primarily as the prototype (effectively) for the later PDP-10; the instruction sets of the two machines are almost identical.
PDP-8 The PDP-8 was the first successful commercial minicomputer, produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the 1960s. It was introduced on March 22, 1965 and was the first widely sold computer in the DEC PDP] series of computers (the PDP-5 was not originally intended to be a general-purpose computer).
PDP++ PDP++ (Parallel Distributed Processing++) is neural simulation software written in C++ for the creation of connectionist models. Development initially began in 1995 at Carnegie Mellon University, and is currently in version 3.
PDSA Gold Medal The PDSA Gold Medal is an animal bravery award that acknowledges the bravery and devotion to duty of animals. It was created by the PDSA in 2002, and is now recognized as the animal equivalent of the George Cross.
PDSEC The Product Development and Systems Engineering Consortium (PDSEC) is a joint indusrty/academic research group based at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. The PDSEC focuses on collaborative, globally-oriented product development and systems engineering for the automotive industry.
PDVC PDVC (Polyvinylidene Chloride) is a chemical product with low permeability (fluid) and thus high resistance to oil, fat, water, and steam. Originally developed by Dow chemicals in the 1930s under the trademark Saran (plastic wrap) for use as protective coating against corrosion from sea spray for military aircraft.
PDZ domain The PDZ domain is a common structural domain of 80-90 amino-acids found in the signaling proteins of bacteria, yeast, plants, and animals. PDZ is an acronym combining the first letters of three proteins — post synaptic density protein (PSD95), Drosophila disc large tumor suppressor (DlgA), and zo-1 protein — which were first discovered to share the domain.
Pe (Arabic) Pe (پ) is an additional letter of the Arabic alphabet, probably based on bāʼ (ب). It is not used in Arabic itself, but may be used to represent a voiceless bilabial stop (IPA: ) when writing other languages such as Persian or Urdu.
Pe (Cyrillic) Pe (П, п) (formerly referred to by the mnemonic name pokoy) is a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet, representing the consonant unless followed by a palatalizing vowel when it represents . It arose directly from the Greek letter Pi (Π, π).
Pe (text editor) Pe, short for Programmer's Editor, is an open source text editor for the BeOS operating system. It is targeted towards source-code editing, and features syntax highlighting for a large number of programming languages.
Pe'at Sade The Israeli settlement of Pe'at Sadeh () was originally established in 1989 by a group of families on the 'Slav' Israeli Army base in the southern end of Gush Katif and moved to its permanent site on an adjacent hill in 1993. The yishuv was one of the few 'mixed' settlements in the predominantly Orthodox Gush Katif settlement bloc.
Pea (song) "Pea" is a Red Hot Chili Peppers song off their 1995 album One Hot Minute. Flea is featured as both lead vocals and the only instrumentalist in this song, departing from the norm of the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Pea coat A pea coat or pea jacket is an outer coat, generally of a navy-colored heavy wool, originally worn by sailors of European navies. Peacoats are characterized by broad lapels, double-breasted fronts, often large wooden buttons, and vertical or slash pockets.
Pea Hix Dan Hicks, better known as Pea Hix, is a musician living in San Diego, California. He is best known as half of Optiganally Yours, with Rob Crow, as well as the man behind the found sound project Lucas & Friends and a member of lo-fi band Tit Wrench.
Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge located on the north end of North Carolina's Hatteras Island, a coastal barrier island and part of a chain of islands known as the Outer Banks, adjacent to Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The sanctuary is located 10 miles south of Nags Head, North Carolina on NC 12.
Pea Ridge National Military Park Pea Ridge National Military Park is a United States National Military Park located in extreme northwestern Arkansas near the Missouri border. The park protects the site of the American Civil War Battle of Pea Ridge which was fought March 7 and March 8, 1862.
Pea-pickers A Pea-picker is a derogatory reference to poor, migrant workers during the Great Depression. These people were unskilled, poorly educated workers, suitable only for menial tasks, such as harvesting crops, and, as such, received poor wages for working long hours under dreadful conditions.
Peaberry Peaberry, also known as "caracoli", is a type of coffee bean. Peaberry is technically a defect, and occurs due to factors such as insect damage to a flower, tree stress from drought/nutrient imbalances, or with cherries that grow at the tip of branches.
Peaberry Coffee Peaberry Coffee is a coffee shop chain that was started in Denver, Colorado in 1990 by Bill Tointon. The store's concept is founded on serving a variety of coffee from local roasters categorized in a menu format called the "Peaberry Profile System".
Peabody action The Peabody action was an early form of breechloading firearm action, where the heavy breechblock tilt downwards across a bolt mounted in the rear of the breechblock, operated by a lever under the rifle. The Peabody action most often used an external hammer to fire the cartridge, but some variations used an internal hammer.
Peabody and Stearns Peabody and Stearns was a premier architectural firm in the eastern United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, the firm consisted of Robert Swain Peabody (1845-1917) and John Goddard Stearns, Jr.
Peabody Award The George Foster Peabody Awards, more commonly referred to as the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards given for excellence in radio and television broadcasting. First awarded in 1941 for programs from the previous year, they are considered the oldest honors in electronic media.
Peabody College Peabody College was founded in 1875 when the University of Nashville, located in Nashville,Tennessee, split into two separate educational institutions. The preparatory school, Montgomery Bell Academy separated from the college, which was originally called Peabody Normal School, but soon became known as the George Peabody College for Teachers.
Peabody Education Fund Founded of necessity due to damages caused largely by the American Civil War, the Peabody Education Fund was established by George Peabody in 1867 for the purpose of promoting "intellectual, moral, and industrial education in the most destitute portion of the Southern States." The gift of foundation consisted of securities to the value of $2,100,000, of which $1,100,000 were in Mississippi State bonds, afterward repudiated.
Peabody Energy Peabody Energy (), previously Peabody Coal Company, is the largest coal mining company in the world, mining 240 million tons of coal annually, providing 10% of US energy and 3% of world energy. The company has operations in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Arizona, Wyoming, New Mexico, Australia, and South America.
Peabody Essex Museum The Peabody Essex Museum was founded in 1799 as the East India Marine Society by a group of Salem, Massachusetts, based captains and supercargoes. Members of the Society were required by the society's charter to collect "natural and artificial curiosities" from beyond the Cape of Good Hope or Cape Horn.
Peabody Hotel Founded in 1925, the hotel holds historical and cultural significance; it has been said that the Mississippi Delta "begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel (in Memphis) and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg". However, the Peabody is best known for a custom dating back to the 1930s.
Peabody Institute The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University is a conservatory and preparatory school located in the Mount Vernon area of Baltimore, Maryland. The Peabody Conservatory of Music, one of the divisions of the Institute, is considered one of the leading music conservatories in the United States, boasting a renowned faculty and students from across the globe.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1866, it is one of the oldest and most renowned museums focusing on anthropological material, and is particularly strong in New World and Mesoamerican ethnography and archaeology.
Peabody Museum of Natural History The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University was founded by the philanthropist George Peabody in 1866 at the behest of his nephew Othniel Charles Marsh, the early paleontologist. Most famous for its Great Hall of Dinosaurs, which includes a mounted juvenile Apatosaurus and the 110-foot long mural, The Age of Reptiles; it also has permanent exhibits dedicated to human and mammal evolution; wildlife dioramas, Egyptian artifacts; and the birds, minerals and Native Americans of Connecticut.
Peaboy Peaboy was a character on Late Night with David Letterman on NBC during the final season in 1993. He made 17 appearances on Late Night, most often running through the studio audience and past Letterman's desk, throwing frozen peas and blowing a silver whistle.
Peace and conflict studies Peace and conflict studies can be defined as the inter-disciplinary inquiry into war as human condition and peace as human potential, as an alternative to the traditional Polemology (War Studies) and the strategies taught at Military academies. Important aims are: Prevention, deescalation, and solution of international conflicts; Prevention of war.
Peace and Democracy Movement The Peace and Democracy Movement (BariĹź ve Demokrasi Hareketi) is a social democratic political party in the de facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. In the last legislative elections for the House of Representatives of Northern Cyprus - 20 January 2005 - the party won 5.
Peace and Love (DJ Tatana album) Peace and Love is the sixth album by DJ Tatana, the third of which has become a Swiss album chart number one. The album was released on April 11, 2004, entering the chart at #2 on 24 April and climbing to #1 the following week.
Peace and Progress (national motto) Peace and Progress is the current national motto of Japan succeeding "National Wealth and Military Strength" or Fukoku Kyohei ("Enrich the country, strengthen the military") of the Showa era during World War I and World War II after the Meiji Restoration.
Peace and Progress Party The Peace and Progress Party is a British political party founded by Vanessa Redgrave to campaign for human rights. Combining members like the Redgraves, formerly leading figures in the Marxist Party, with others from the media and legal fields, the party functions as a campaigning force for the rights of refugees and political dissidents.
Peace and Truce of God The Peace and Truce of God was a medieval European movement of the Roman Catholic Church which applied spiritual sanctions in order to control and stop the violence of feudal society. The movement constituted the first organized attempt to control civil society in medieval Europe through non-violent means.
Peace Action Peace Action is a peace organization formed through the merger of The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy and the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign (also known as "The Freeze"). It has mobilized for peace and nuclear disarmament since 1957.
Peace Air Peace Air is a Canadian regional airline that flies to destinations within the Canadian province of Alberta and to two destinations in eastern British Columbia. It coveres niche markets including scheduled flights to smaller communities, freight and charter flights in northern Alberta.
Peace Arch Park Peace Arch Park is a park straddling the International Boundary between the United States and Canada at its extreme western end (disregarding Point Roberts). It consists of Peace Arch State Park on the American side of the border and Peace Arch Provincial Park on the Canadian side of the border.
Peace Authority In science fiction author Vernor Vinge's 1984 novel, The Peace War, and sequels (published together as Across Realtime), the Peace Authority was the name of the worldwide government that came to power in the late 1990s by exploiting the invention of stasis fields nicknamed bobbles.
Peace be upon him (Islam) Peace be upon him (Arabic: صلى الله عليه وسلم ;ﷺ; salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam, also transliterated as sallalahu aleyhi wasallam or salallahu alayhi wasalaam) is a phrase that Muslims often say after mentioning the name of the Islamic prophets such as Muhammad, Jesus Christ, Abraham and all the other prophets cited in the Qur'an. Shia Muslims mention a similar salutation (aleyhi salaam - upon him be peace) after mentioning Ali ibn Abi Talib or one of the imams that followed Ali.
Peace Ballot The Peace Ballot of 1935 was a nationwide questionnaire of five questions attempting to discover the British public's attitude to the League of Nations and collective security. The Ballot was largely organised by the League of Nations Union and spearheaded by Lord Robert Cecil.
Peace Breaks Out Peace Breaks Out (1981) is a novel by American author John Knowles, better known for A Separate Peace (1959). The books share the setting of the Devon preparatory school, probably a reference to Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, which Knowles attended in his youth.
Peace Brigades International Peace Brigades International (PBI) is an NGO, founded in 1981, which "protects human rights and promotes nonviolent transformation of conflicts". It primarily does this by sending volunteers to accompany human rights workers whose lives are at risk in areas of conflict.
Peace camp Peace camps are physical camps that are set up outside military bases by members of the peace movement who for one reason or another oppose either the military bases themselves or the politics of those who control the bases. They began in the 1920's and then became world famous in 1982 due to the tremendous worldwide publicity generated by the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp.
Peace Center The Peace Center is located adjacent to Falls Park in downtown Greenville, South Carolina. It is an arts center that contains the 2100 seat Peace Concert Hall, 400 seat Dorothy Hipp Gunter Theater, and the Dow Brands Amphitheater located beside the Reedy River.
Peace Clause Trade negotiators generally refer to Article 13 of the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Agriculture as the Peace Clause. Article 13 holds that domestic support measures and export subsidies of a WTO Member that are legal under the provisions of the Agreement on Agriculture cannot be challenged by other WTO Members on grounds of being illegal under the provisions of another WTO agreement.
Peace College Peace College is a small liberal arts women's college located in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. It is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA) and is a member of the Association of Presbyterian Colleges and Universities.
Peace Conservation System The Peace Conservation System (PCS), an initiative of the International peace Institute, is a structure that identifies and analyzes peace in the human mind; it separates the drive for peace from actual strategies and solutions adopted by the mind to achieve it.
Peace Corps The Peace Corps is an independent United States federal agency. The Peace Corps was established by executive order in 1961 in response to the Chinese and Soviet challenge to Western influence in the widely open Third World arena of superpower competition.
Peace Cup The Peace Cup is a football (soccer) tournament organized by the Sunmoon Soccer Foundation for Peace, which is connected to Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, which regards the competition between clubs from several continents as a way of world peace promotion and is held every two years in South Korea. In 2006 a women's tournament called the Peace Queen Cup was created, inviting 8 women's national teams from 5 continents.
Peace Cup 2003 The 2003 Peace Cup football Tournament took place between July 15-22, 2003 in South Korea featuring eight teams from around the world split into 2 groups with the winner from each group then playing each other in the final.
Peace Cup 2005 The 2005 Peace Cup football Tournament took place between July 15-24, 2005 in South Korea featuring eight teams from around the world split into 2 groups with the winner from each group then playing each other in the final.
Peace Dam The Peace Dam is a South Korean dam intended to stave off possible catastrophic flooding should upstream North Korean dams collapse, either accidentally or as an attack. North Korea has released massive quantities of water without warning in the recent past to cause South Korean flooding.
Peace Direct Peace Direct is a charity based in London, England which supports grassroots peacebuilders in areas of conflict. Peace Direct focuses on supporting grassroots peacebuilders who are local to the conflict and have a clear vision of what needs to be achieved.
Peace Dollar The Peace Dollar is a silver United States dollar coin minted from 1921 to 1928, then again in 1934 and 1935. Early proposals for the coin called for a commemorative issue to coincide with the end of World War I, but the Peace Dollar was issued as a circulating coin.
Peace churches Peace churches are Christian churches, groups or communities advocating pacifism. The term historic peace churches refers specifically to three church groups: the Church of the Brethren, the Mennonites, and the Society of Friends (also called Quakers).
Peace in action Peace in Action (PIA) is a network of today’s generation peace and development activists, academics, practitioners and other individuals from diverse walks of life. PIA participants actively face the challenges of our world in crises! PIA aims to motivate and mobilize individuals to take action, and to create momentum in building cultures of peace. Members of PIA are actively involved in projects that raise awareness about the importance of citizen action through community and cultural events, projects, workshops, trainings and independent consulting. PIA aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice in the areas of peacebuiling, development and conflict transformation, and stresses the principles of creativity, collaboration and action.
Peace lines The Peace Lines are a series of separation barriers ranging in length from a few hundred yards to over three miles, separating Protestant and Catholic neighbourhoods in Belfast, Derry and elsewhere in Northern Ireland. The stated purpose of the barriers is to minimize intercommunal sectarian violence between Protestants and Catholics.
Peace Learning Center The Peace Learning Center is an Indianapolis, Indiana-based organization dedicated to promoting a culture of peace through education to youth and families. Charlie Wiles and Tim Nation founded the Peace Learning Center as a peace and diversity education initiative in 1997.
Peace movement A peace movement is a social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, often linked to the goal of achieving world peace. Means to achieve these ends usually include advocacy of pacifism, non-violent resistance, diplomacy, boycotts, moral purchasing, supporting anti-war political candidates and demonstrations.
Peace Mala Peace Mala (The Peace Mala Youth Project for World Peace) is a Swansea-based interfaith organisation dedicated to the "promotion of understanding, respect, friendship, tolerance and peace between all communities, cultures and enlightened, compassionate faiths"From the 'Main aims of Peace Mala' Peace Mala promotes 'global citizenship' and invites all people to treat each other with respect and compassion regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, sexuality or ability.

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