TheSEARCH FOR PEACE is not a contest. There are no winners and no losers. Everyone who enters is a winner. Everyone who enters is a peacemaker!
The SEARCH FOR PEACE is a simple effort to address the increasing problem of violence in our world. Since its inception it has become an annual project in which Missoula students of any age are invited to express their concept of peace through any creative medium.
Teachers and parents offer support and encouragement as students visualize realistic alternatives to violence. In the process we all are drawn to nurture, teach and express peace in our lives.
Creative thinking and expression teaches people of all ages that peace is not merely the absence of violence but is a positive reality in its own right.		 The Search for Peace is open to students in the Missoula area from elementary grades through the post graduate. There are no sectarian or religious affiliations.
The Father Jim Hogan Peace Award includes a personally engraved bronze medallion and a cash award.

Selected representatives from each category--elementary, middle, secondary, university, collaborative---are recognized with ceramic medallions and cash awards.

All participants are recognized as Peacemakers with a certificate and bookmark.
This beautiful table top was created by grades 1/2 and 4 at Lewis and Clark School for the 2007 Search for Peace.
In 2003, Amy Holtz received the Peace Award for the song she composed and sang. You may hear it by clicking the arrow below.