WILKES-BARRE — Sophie Kurbanov busily worked on her personal peace symbol poster that she intends to hang on her bedroom wall. Kurbanov, 10, is one of 20 children attending this week’s Peace ...

The universal symbol was on display during a demonstration for peace in Berlin in 2014 Image: Imago/IPON But a uniform visual trademark with high recognition value was missing.

Then there is the case of the peace sign. Originally devised in the late 1950s by the activist and designer Gerald Holtom as a symbol for the British antinuclear proliferation movement, the ...

Hundreds of men, women, and children gathered Saturday on Boston Common to attempt to set a Guinness world record for the largest human peace symbol. About noon, 1,682 people — by a Guinness ...

The peace sign originated as a symbol used by the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC). An artist, Gerald Holtom, was on the groups’ board, and as a well-known designer, ...

Peace: The Biography of a Symbol by Ken Kolsbun. National Geographic HK$260. Those who grew up in the west in the 1960s or 1970s might remember scrawling the circular peace symbol on a school ...