Peace Facts

The Nobel Peace Prize medal depicts 3 naked men with their hands on each others shoulders.

In 585 BC, a solar eclipse occurred in the middle of a battle between the Lydians and the Medes. They promptly ceased fighting and signed a peace treaty.

Iceland has no standing army and has been ranked the world's most peaceful country every year since the Global Peace Index began in 2008.

The flag of the Philippines is flown with the red stripe up in times of war and blue stripe up in times of peace.

The Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly (off the coast of England) were technically at war from 1651 to 1986 — 335 years. No shots were fired. No one died. In 1985, a Scilly historian contacted the Dutch Embassy to joke about it. The Dutch ambassador flew to the islands and signed a peace treaty, ending a war nobody knew was still happening.