The monument has a relief of a shield with the inscription 'PEACE I GIVE TO YOU', and the town coat of arms and a dove with an olive branch. There is also a figurative relief showing a soldier with a young male child who is carrying the number 50, below the figures are two linked hands. On the back of the work is the detailed inscription.

    This monument to 50 years of relative peace in Europe since the Second World War was commissioned by the Town Council. Two local children designed the form of the monument which was then fabricated by Horton Quarries Ltd. The statue was dedicated on the 6 May 1995 by Rt. Revd. Simon Barington Ward, the Bishop of Coventry. 
    The Dove is a traditional symbol of peace, being taken from the Biblical tale of the Flood when Noah sent out a dove to find dry land and it returned with an olive branch to signify that the flood had receded. After the local government reorganisation of 1974 the arms of the former Stratford Borough were transferred by the Earl Marshal to Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council. The arms are: gold, a chevron azure between three leopards faces. Another version made the field silver and the chevron red. The leopards' faces were probably derived from the Royal Arms which show three lions passant guardant (standing with right paw raised), anciently termed a lion leopardé. Several ancient towns placed the Royal Arms of England on their seals and when adopting arms of their own took the three royal lions as a basis, simply changing the colour of the field or making additions. In the Middle Ages, the Bailiff and Burgesses used for arms Argent, a fesse varing gules and or, between these leopards' faces gable. The Charter of 1553 gave to Bailiff and Burgesses various privileges, among which was the right to a Common Seal. The first Common Seal of 1553, has it on a florid shield charged with a chevron between three leopard's faces.

Unveiled in 1995.