Ground Zero Minnesota

Our Ground Zero Minnesota Logo Explained

The Ground Zero MN logo has a history relevant to the current endeavor. The Ground Zero MN logo features a dove, an eagle, a flag, a peace symbol and a heart. This was an explicit attempt to combine the virtues of peace activists and the professional military, by a student named Vanessa in 1984 from Southwest High School in Minneapolis Minnesota. For over 24 years we have worked constructively with both peace and military people.

This habit of active engagement with the virtues of polarized groups that are focused on a common problem has fertilized our educational work ever since. There is always a significant amount of background information which both sides can agree is useful, and that is often underrepresented among the public’s "facts I know about the world." The act of working together to improve the quality of teaching materials of a constructive nature also helps to build tolerance and generates useful efforts outside the zone of common ground.

In conferences, this means access to really exceptional thinkers on varied sides of complex problems. In teaching aids, this means more usable products for broader groups of people with manifold means for influencing the future. In intelligence, this means better answers faster than obtained by conventional, polarized, and highly exclusive processes.