With a grant from the Victorian Multicultural Commission, Makor initiated the Circle of Peace project, which involved 185 women and girls from diverse cultural backgrounds in painting a mural about peace.  The project was completed during the summer months of 2006 at the Springvale Library.

The aim of the project was to foster interfaith understanding, community cohesion and harmony. The location, carefully chosen, enabled the uniting of women from the Islamic, Jewish and Christian communities in the common goal of creating a community art work in order to strengthen and develop ties between these three culturally diverse groups.

Under the direction of award-winning artist and community project designer Julie Gross McAdam, women and girls from many nations worked together in the spirit of friendship and harmony to create a tangible expression of peace. As many intricate patterns and colours merged, each artist's message of peace and unity found its voice.

The young Muslim women of Minaret College in Springvale expressed their thoughts (and those of all the participants) in the following words: 'Even though we all have different beliefs, we live in harmony and it is a wonderful thing to create a peace tree and peace doves that symbolize this harmony. This painting symbolizes everything that the world is in need of today'.

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