World Humanitarian Day 2010

PAZ, PAZ, PAZ by Juanes

PEACE, PEACE, PEACE...

World March for Peace and Non Violence

The world march is a humanist proposal that was launched during the Symposium of the
World Center for Humanist Studies held at the Park of Study and Reflection in Punta de Vacas, Argentina, on November 15, 2008.

The World March aims to generate consciousness of the dangerous global situation we are living in our world. A situation marked by conflicts, wars and military occupations.

The World March is a proposal for an unprecedented social mobilization, advanced by the Humanist Movement through one of its organizations, World Without Wars.

Read more about the World March for Peace and Non Violence

Liu Xiaobo -The Nobel Peace winner 2010

And the Nobel Peace Prize for 2010 was awarded to Liu Xiaobo for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China. Congratulations!

read the announcement from the Nobel Peace Prize committee here

and check wwww.nobelpeaceprize.org for more information

The Nobel Peace Prize 2010

The Nobel Peace Prize 2010 will be announced Friday 8. October at 11.00.

Nobelity documentary - trailer

Trailer for the documentary, Nobelity a look to the struggles our worth is living through the eyes of nine Nobel laureates.
The Nobelity Project.

Jody William- one person can change the world

Nobel Peace laureate Jody Williams, co-founder of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, talks about the power we have, the power of one person to change the world.

One Peace at a Time- sneak preview

A must see documental!
Filmed in 20 countries on 5 continents, One Peace at a Time looks at the possibility of providing basic rights - education, nutrition,water, healthcare, education, opportunity and more - to every child on earth.

UN peacebuilding Commission

Do you know what does the UN peacebuilding comission do?
Read the questions and answers and learn more about this important Commission.
Read more about the UN Peacebuilding commision

A glimmer of hope

There are many organizations and initiatives to help people around the world. All these people involved in these projects are doing their personal contribution for a better world and for peace. We applaud and recognize their job. We support all of them. We would like to share these organizations with you.

A glimmer of hope, check out the video to learn more about their work.

Imagine...

A great version of Lennon´s song Imagine by Elton John

The Green Belt Movement

Wangari Maathai is a Kenyan environmentalist and political activist that during the 1970s founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental NGO focused on environmental conservation and women's rights.

In 2004, she became the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for her contributions to sustainable development, democracy, and peace.

One Peace at a Time- Trailer

Happy Peace Day to all of you!

Spread Peace every single day but celebrate Peace Day the 21st of september each year.

Peace and Love,

Peace One Day 2010 Celebration -

Celebrate today Peace Day! Be kind to everybody, smile, spread love and peace around you. Today is a very special day, be part of it!



For more information, please check the Peace One Day site and their youtube channel.

What you can do for peace?

Gill Hicks and Peace Direct:

Peace one day

St Peter's Stoke Winning Song of Peace One Day One Song competition singing with the stars at the Peace One day concert September 21st 2007.

Shirin Ebadi- Voices on Social Justice

International Labout Organization TV interviews Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate on social justice.

Peace Train by Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)

Yusuf Islam has been given several awards for his work in promoting peace in the world, including the 2004 Man for Peace award and the 2007 Mediterranean Prize for Peace

Kofi Annan- Voices on Social Justice

International Labour Organization TV interviews Kofi Annan, former United Nations Secretary-General and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, and Director of the Kofi Annan Foundation.

Everybody wants peace

A sad reality for some kids...child soldiery
We can all make a difference in this world,lets help children that live in this situation.
check out www.warchild.org

Soldiers of Peace Trailer

Esperanza Spalding

"the road to peace is endless, the journey with open eyes is how we'll mend this...I won't give up."

Bob Sinclar - Love Generation

We can make a difference if we want, lets be the Love Generation!

Love and Peace or else...by U2

Taking Root-documentary

The inspring story of the Green Belt Movement and Wangari Maathai (founder) is told in the award-winning documentary 'Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai' by Lisa Merton & Alan Dater. tells the inspiring story of GBM and its founder.

10 questions for the Dalai Lama- Times Magazine

The Peace and Conflict Review

The Peace and Conflict Review is an open access journal dedicated to the publication of high quality academic articles dedicated to peace and conflict studies.

The Peace and Conflict Review is hosted at the headquarters of the United Nations mandated University for Peace (UPEACE) in San Jose, Costa Rica.

Check out the current issue

Peace one Day music video

PEACE ONE DAY, PEACE ONE DAY, PEACE ONE DAY!

Youth action for Peace

Youth Action for Peace has been committed to promote peace and dialogue in local communities through the active participation of young people.

YAP counts with members, partners, and volunteers around the world.Youth Action for Peace reaches out to more than 40 countries world wide including:

•Europe: Austria, Belgium, Balkan region (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia), France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom
•Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Kenya, Mali, Togo, West Sahara
•America: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, United States of America
•Middle East: Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine
•Asia: India, Indonesia, Japan, Nepal, South Korea, Thailand, Vietnam

With their programs YAP intends to increase awareness about the impacts and actions against injustice, violent conflicts, discrimination and social exclusion.

Read more about YOUTH ACTION FOR PEACE

Bob Sinclar - Together

Hope in our new generation :-)

A human Approach to World Peace-Dalai Lama

Read this interesting message about a Human approach to world peace by his holiness the Dalai Lama A Human Approach to World Peace

I will be a hummingbird by Wangari Maathai

A beautiful tale on how we can make a difference.

A little peace by Elton John

Elton John - A Little Peace Lyrics @ LyricsTime.com

Heal the World by Kids of Pop

One Day at the Time by Yusuf Islam

One day at the time...we can all build peace :-)

Desmond Tutu on Hope

Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu believes that there is always hope when people care

Peace by Depeche Mode

Lyrics
Peace will come to me
Peace will come to me

I'm leaving bitterness behind
This time I'm cleaning up my mind
There is no space for the regrets
I will remember to forget

Just look at me
I am walking of incoming
Look at the frequencies of which I vibrate
I'm going to light up the world

Peace will come to me
Peace will come to me

I'm leaving anger in the past
With all the shadows that it caused
There is radar in my heart
I should have trusted from the start

Just look at me
I am a living act of holiness
Giving all the positive virtues that I possess
I'm going to light up the world

Peace will come to me
Just wait and see
Peace will come to me
It's meant to be

Peace will come to me
Just wait and see
Peace will come to me
It's inevitability

The great song of Indifference by Bob Geldof

The worse thing that we can do, is to stay indifferent to the reality of our world.
We can all make a difference.

Bob Geldof is widely recognised for his activism, especially anti-poverty efforts concerning Africa.

In 2006 and 2008, Bob Geldof was a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize.

War, no more trouble by Playing for Change

We don´t need more trouble...

The important role of women in peacekeeping

Women role in peacekeeping is very important. The Power to empower. Please watch this interesting video of the great job female troops are doing around the world.

Peace Ad

Some companies are advertising and calling attention towards peace.
We have no intention to start a debate, just to share with you the thought of PEACE :-)

Jody Williams-We can all do something to change this world

You never know when change will happen, let´s all participate!

Peace must be waged

No bravery by James Blunt

A touching and heartfelt antiwar song.



James Blunt - No Bravery Lyrics

There are children standing here,
Arms outstretched into the sky,
Tears drying on their face.
He has been here.
Brothers lie in shallow graves.
Fathers lost without a trace.
A nation blind to their disgrace,
Since he's been here.

And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.

Houses burnt beyond repair.
The smell of death is in the air.
A woman weeping in despair says,
He has been here.
Tracer lighting up the sky.
It's another families' turn to die.
A child afraid to even cry out says,
He has been here.

And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.

There are children standing here,
Arms outstretched into the sky,
But no one asks the question why,
He has been here.
Old men kneel and accept their fate.
Wives and daughters cut and raped.
A generation drenched in hate.
Yes, he has been here.

And I see no bravery,
No bravery in your eyes anymore.
Only sadness.

PEACE BOAT

Peace Boat is a Japan-based international non-governmental and non-profit organization that works to promote peace, human rights, equal and sustainable development and respect for the environment.
Peace Boat carries out its main activities through a chartered passenger ship that travels the world on peace voyages.
A wonderful journey, just imagine that!
Read more about it

If you would like to know more about Peace boat , how to volunteer, their principles, journeys
check their homepage
www.peaceboat.org

Give me love (Give me Peace on Earth) by George Harrison

Children are watching

Remember to always be kind to others, to respect others. Teach your children about the importance of Peace and Love.

The Culture of Peace Initiative

The Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI) is a co-operative Peacebuilding Initiative that unite the strengths of existing organizations, projects and peoples in building a Culture of Peace for future generations.

Read more about The Culture of Peace Initiative

Peace One Day Education

Lonely soldier by Damien Rice

Another version of the same song with some touching pictures. Performed by Catalpa. Written by Damien Rice

Stand by me...

Let´s support each other, we can live in peace

Art of Peace Foundation

Please read more about The Art Peace Foundation. Their main purpose is dedicated to achieving the Dalai Lama’s vision of creating peace within our selves and in the world.

john lennon - imagine (live with acoustic guitars!)

Peace ads

Peace on earth

Important social moments in our world

Music of Samuel Barber´s Adagio for strings

We are the World-Somos el Mundo

Lets not forget about Haiti and other countries in need of help
We are the world, we are one world!

Dalai Lama interviewed by Larry King

Bomb the world by Michael Franti

Happy Birthday Nelson Mandela!

We wish Nelson Mandela a great birthday and always the best. He is such an inspiration! Enjoy your day!

Give 67 minutes to change the world in Mandela´s day!

Give 67 minutes to change the world on Mandela Day from The Elders on Vimeo.

Seeds of Peace

Seeds of Peace was founded in 1993 by journalist John Wallach. It is dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence.

read more About Seeds of Peace

Hey World (dont give up) by Michael Franti

We shall overcome

We shall overcome and we shall live in peace one day

New songs for peace

This week we are glad to share some nice songs and good sites related to music, love and peace.

This UNESCO-endorsed "New Songs for Peace" project wants to encourage people to think about peace, talk about peace, and write a new song that will be collect and publish in a book. These new songs will promote peace, cultural acceptance and understanding for those who work towards peace throughout the world.
Please check out NEW SONGS FOR PEACE, read the great lyrics and listen to the beautiful songs

We should all be friends, shouldnt we?

John Lennon & Yoko Ono: WAR IS OVER! (If You Want It)

Worldwide Moment 2010, simultaneous photos for peace.

Can you imagine people from every country in the world participating in a simultaneous moment of peace?
Brett Brownell could imagine this and now is asking you to join him and many other thousands of people in the 2010’s Worldwide Moment that occurs on Sunday October 10, 2010.

Worldwide Moment is a non-profit arts organization which encourages people around the world to celebrate international collaboration and Peace by taking simultaneous photographs and sharing their stories.

Read more this initiative and check out the exact time for you that day.
Worldwide Moment info
Keep yourself updated by checking the worldwide moment homepage
Photographs from the 2009 moment

Happy Birthday Ringo Starr! Peace and Love!

Today Ringo Starr is celebrating his 70th birthday and is asking for a very simple gift from all of us. We are happy to join you in your wish Ringo, PEACE AND LOVE!

read his interview in the New York Times

Happy Birthday to his Holiness the Dalai Lama

We would like to wish His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the occasion of his 75th birthday a wonderful day.
We hope he can spread the message of peace as he has always done for many coming years.





photos from his 75th anniversary

World Peace Festival Berlin 2011

The biggest peave event in history, the World Peace Festival will take place in Berlin during the 26, 27, and 28 of august 2011. This festival will inspire and empower people to be more at peace with themselves, others, and the environment.

The main method that will be used in this festival is through “Tools for Peace” and “Circles for Peace” Providing the methods and the means for individuals around the world to effect real change and create a sustainable, ongoing and worldwide peace.

Check out more information World Peace Festival Berlin

All you need is LOVE- The Beatles

Lennon/McCartney

Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.
There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you
in time - It's easy.

All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
All you need is love (all together now)
All you need is love (everybody)
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.

We are the World

Another version of this beautiful song. Pavarotti and friends

The world I dreamed/ El mundo que soñe

How often have I thought about
That my world is upside down
Towards a sea-bottom of lies and
Hypocrisies
How many times I would have wanted
to help in this world of mine
To all those who die and suffer as you

The world I dreamed about,
Will have a thousand hearts
In order to beat
It will have a million of lovers
The world I dreamed about
It will have a million flowers,
Thousand children who will be
Tomorrow, great men
With eyes wide open they will look,
You will save them

For those adored by the sun itself,
There are no races, colors arent needed,
Because the heart is put by the same
Your God and mine
For those who smile
Because the fortune that gives no warning,
revelates that in the morning its you to be seen

The world I dreamed about,
Will be lived in colours
I will never listen again
Cannon fires
The world I dreamed about,
will have more justice
For all those that war is their news
With eyes wide open they will stare,
You will save them

How to ignore, how can we be
indiferent like this
still like this
With those children who never will grow up,
How can it be that we listen without emotion

Let´s give something to the world
A lot of love and peace
The world that I dreamed about, oh, oh, oh ...

The world I dreamed about,
Would have hearts
The world I dreamed about,
It would be called love
If you walk holding my hands you can see
The world I dreamed about...

Lyrics:Laura Pausini
Translation: LS

Peace all over the world-Playing for Change

Listen to the song Peace all over the world performed by Robert Bradley on the streets of Los Angeles.

Wangaari Mathai- Nobel Peace Prize winner 2004

Wangaari Mathai received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her contribution to democracy, sustainable development and peace.
read her biography

3 month countdown to Peace Day!

Peace Train by Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens)

What will you do the 21st of september?

Rigoberta Menchú Tum- The Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 1992

Rigoberta Menchú Tum was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize award in 1992 in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples.
read her biography

Peace Light Tower in Iceland

Yoko Ono is inspired by Iceland from Inspired By Iceland on Vimeo.

Pay it forward! Will you do it?

Think of an idea to change the world...

You´ve got a friend- James Taylor & Carole King

Think Different!

The Missing Peace Art Exhibition

Sad News

Our thoughts are with the family of Nelson Mandela. A moment in time that should be very special in his life was shadowed yesterday by the death of his great-granddaughter Zenani Mandela. RIP
Read more
CNN news

Imagine

World Peace Festival Berlin 2011

Tom Oliver, founder of the World Peace Festival Berlin talks about the festival. This festival will take place in 2011 instead of 2010.

The Peace wheel by Pathways for Peace

This may be of interest to all the peacebuilders out there...

Pathways To Peace (PTP) is an international PeaceBuilding, Educational and Consulting organization and the Peace Wheel is a model for Peacebuilding, developed by Pathways To Peace over the last 25 years.

Read more about it

Peace on Earth by U2

Heaven on Earth
We need it now
I'm sick of all of this
Hanging around
Sick of sorrow
Sick of pain
Sick of hearing again and again
That there's gonna be
Peace on Earth

Where I grew up
There weren't many trees
Where there was we'd tear them down
And use them on our enemies
They say that what you mock
Will surely overtake you
And you become a monster
So the monster will not break you

It's already gone too far
Who said that if you go in hard
You won't get hurt

Jesus could you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on Earth
Tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on Earth
No whos or whys
No-one cries like a mother cries
For peace on Earth
She never got to say goodbye
To see the colour in his eyes
Now he's in the dirt
Peace on Earth

They're reading names out over the radio
All the folks the rest of us won't get to know
Sean and Julia, Gareth, Ann and Breda
Their lives are bigger, than any big idea

Jesus can you take the time
To throw a drowning man a line
Peace on Earth
To tell the ones who hear no sound
Whose sons are living in the ground
Peace on Earth

Jesus this song you wrote
The words are sticking in my throat
Peace on Earth
Hear it every Christmas time
But hope and history won't rhyme
So what's it worth?
This peace on Earth

Peace on Earth
Peace on Earth
Peace on Earth

Lyrics source: www.U2.com

Mother Theresa- Do it anyway!

A call for World Peace
PEACE TODAY music by Faith Rivera
From the CD "Maluhia ~ Everyday Peace"
___________ Lyrics ____________
Peace is the promise I make today
There's nothing greater for me to say
Than to lay down my fears
Lay down unhappiness
And surrender to
The peace I choose today

Peace is the gift that I give today
No easy shortcut, Peace is the way
I will lay down my pride
Lay down self-righteousness
And surrender to
The peace I choose today

My all, I give My love for all

Peace is the reason we're here today
No accident, we've been by name
Called to lay down our lives
Stand up for greater good
And surrender to the peace we choose today

Peace, we choose - today
Peace, we bring - today
Peace, we live oh-today

Peace today
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Damien Rice- Unplayed Piano, a song for Aung San Suu Kyi

Damien Rice is an Irish songwriter that visited Burma in July 2004, after his visit, he wrote "Unplayed Piano" with Lisa Hannigan a song for Aung San Suu Kyi.
The single was released in 2005.

Damien Rice said, “I prefer not to interfere too much with what is going on in the world, but when someone has been thrown into a hole and they ask you to throw down a rope, I am happy to look for a rope, especially for a woman of such grace.”

On June 19th 2009, Burma's democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, celebrated her 64th birthday. She spent her birthday alone under house arrest. She has been in detention now for more than 15years. Her phone line is cut and her post is intercepted. Armed soldiers do not allow visitors to come close to Aung San Suu Kyi.

Come and see me
Sing me to sleep
Come and free me
Or hold me if i need to weep
Or maybe it's not the season
Or maybe it's not the year
Or maybe there's no good reason
Why i'm locked up inside
Just cause they wanna hide me
The moon goes bright
The darker they make my night

Unplayed pianos
Are often by a window
In a room where nobody loved goes
She sits alone with her silent song
Somebody bring her home

Unplayed piano (unplayed piano)
Still holds a tune (still holds a tune)
Lock on the lid (years, years pass by)
In a stale, stale room (in the changing of the moon)
Maybe it's not that easy (too many windows)
Or maybe it's not that hard (in a stale, stale room)
Maybe they could release me (stale, stale room)
Let the people decide
I've got nothing to hide
I've done nothing wrong
So why've i been here so long?

Unplayed pianos
Are often by a window
In a room where nobody loved goes
She sits alone with her silent song
Somebody bring her home

Unplayed pianos
Are often by a window
In a room where nobody loved goes
She sits alone with her silent song
Somebody bring her home

Unplayed piano (unplayed piano)
Still holds a tune
Years pass by
In the changing of the moon

Walk on by U2

Read the lyrics

Aung San Suu Kyi- Nobel Peace Prize 1991

Aung San Suu Kyi is the only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. She was awarded the Peace Prize in 1991 for "her non-violent struggle for democracy and human rights".

Aung San Suu Kyi biography

watch her profile

For more about Action Burma

Shirin Ebadi- Nobel Peace Laureate 2003

Lawyer Shirin Ebadin received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts for democracy and human rights
Shirin Ebadi of Iran describes how education can lead to peace in the Middle East and calls for an end to discrimination against women.

Read her full biography

The importance of emphathy in our society

Watch this amazing video of The Emphatic Civilization by bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin.
Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the impact it has in our society.

Prof. Muhammad Yunus

Prof. Muhammad Yunus, awarded the "Nobel Peace Prize" in October 2006.

Professor Muhammad Yunus is a briliant man with a big heart.
Listen to an excellent talk about the microfinance revolution around the world, the Nobel Peace Prize, and some other interesting topics.

Mandela Day 2010

Mandela Day has been created to inspire people around the world to embrace the values that have embodied Mandela´s life. Values such as democracy, equality, diversity, responsibility,respect and freedom.

In this day the work of the Nelson Mandela charitable organisations is exposed and some money is raised to support their work.

Many interesting activities take place that day, whether supporting a charity organisation or serving your local community. Everybody should participate in this special day that celebrates the legacy that Nelson Mandela leaves to our world. People are asked to do something special for 67 minutes.

Read more about Mandela Day

Introduction to Mandela Day...46664 Video

Nelson Mandela Cell in Malmö

Nelson Mandela Exhibition in the Malmö Museum

A wonderful exhibition about Nelson Mandela is in Malmö Museum.
The exhibition Mandela is about Nelson Mandela´s life as a leader, a peace icon, comrade, negotiator, prisoner and stateman. Produced by the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela Foundation and the Nelson Mandela Museum.
It is the first time shown outside South Africa.

With the South Africa theme Malmo Museum highlights important issues as democracy and human rights.

Read more about the Nelson Mandela exhibition.

Nelson Mandela- Nobel Peace Prize 1993

Nelson Mandela has received more than hundred awards for his efforts in South Africa and the world. The most prestigious among the awards he won is the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

Nelson Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before that, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC).

The South African courts convicted Mandela on charges of sabotage, among other alleged crimes committed while he led the movement against apartheid. He served 27 years in prison

Mandela, after his retirement, continues to be active sharing his opinion in important topics in The Elders group.

In South Africa, he is commonly known as Madiba, an honorary title that is adopted by the elders of Mandela clan.He is now often referred as Mandiba.

his biography...

Ela Bhatt conferred Japan´s Niwano Peace Prize

The prestigious Japan´s Niwano Peace Prize was awarded to Ela Bhatt for her contribution to the empowerment of women of India
Read more...

One Day One Goal 2010

All around the world

Negotiation vs Moderation - Martti Ahtisaari

Martti Ahtisaari- Nobel Peace Prize 2008

Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel Peace Prize laureate for 2008, discusses International Peace Mediation.
What is a good mediator?

Read his full biography

CHALK4PEACE

CHALK4PEACE is a global chalk art peace project that began through the Museum of Modern ARF, Arlington, VA in 2003 as Modern ARF Chalk Painting. A Sunday chalk lesson for the community expanded rapidly since 2006- 500 sites; 17 countries, 26 states: US, South Africa, Germany, Ireland, England, Canada, Mexico, Scotland, Bosnia, the West Bank, Columbia, Costa Rica, Turkey, India, France, Ecuador, Italy, Puerto Rico and probably elsewhere…

Read more about CHALK4PEACE

and look at some nice photos

Where is the love?

Heal the World

Rotary Internationals- World Peace Fellowships

Learn more about the interesting and important program Rotary International has to educate people around the world in peace related areas.

We are the World

We are the World
We are the children
We are the ones who make a brighter day
So Let´s Start Giving

Enjoy this beautiful day!

ONE LOVE

ONE LOVE, ONE EARTH, LOVE DIVERSITY!

The importance of Compassion in World Peace

Listen to the interesting talk given by His Holiness Dalai Lama in Florida Atlantic University as part of their activities during Peace week.
Compassion as a Pillar of World Peace.

Stand up as people by Lee Ryan

I stand for Peace in OUR lifetime, do you?

This banner has been created so one billion people can be counted standing together for peace.
One billion people is more than 10% of the population of the world.

Peace in the world requires every one of us to speak together.

Read more about Planting seeds & the Kind foundation and do not forget to count your voice.

Lakhdar Brahimi

Lakhdar Brahimi is one of The Elders.

Read his biography

Getting to know Ela R. Bhatt

Ela R. Bhatt is one of The Elders.

Ela R. Bhatt is recognised in the world as one of the most remarkable pioneers and entrepreneurial forces in grassroots development. She has dedicated her life to improving the lives of India’s poorest and most oppressed women workers with Ghandian thinking as a guide. Ela R. Bhatt founded SEWA, Self-employed women´s association in 1972. She is an active advocate of women empowerment.

Read her biography here

Hold on to your beliefs

Peace is not easy to achieve but we should not give up. Listen to some encouraging words from Rev. Desmond Tutu about how we should hold on to our beliefs, encouraging words to all the activists out there.
Then you can listen to the thoughts of Peter Gabriel and Richard Branson about the founding of The Elders.
Encouragement words from Rev. Desmond Tutu
Richard Branson and Peter Gabriel

The Elders

The Elders are an independent group of global leaders, brought together by Nelson Mandela, who offer their high profile, influence and experience to support peace building activities and promote humanity interests.

The Elders are: Martti Ahtisaari, Kofi Annan, Ela Bhatt, Lakhdar Brahimi, Gro Brundtland, Fernando H. Cardoso, Jimmy Carter, Graca Machel, Mary Robinson, Desmond Tutu.

The Honorary Elders are: Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi.

The Elders homepage

Cinema for Peace

Since 2002, Cinema for Peace has been a worldwide initiative that promotes humanity through films while inviting members of the international film community to attend the annual Cinema for Peace Award Gala night during the Berlin International Film Festival.

While outstanding works are screened, directors and producers are distinguished with the Cinema for Peace Award for praiseworthy works. The films are a platform for peace and tolerance as they highlight the human condition and human values.

Cinema for Peace brings together international star guests and global personalities from the world of film, business, politics, media, business and society. This event is a symbol of peace, freedom and tolerance, a symbol with a lasting effect on the world of film and media.

Cinema for Peace initiates important projects and promotes the free exchange of ideas. Cinema For Peace itself distributes and produces different movies with inspiring messages.

Read more about Cinema for Peace

Peace One Day achievement in Afghanistan in 2009

Afghanistan's Peace Day polio immunization drive reached almost 1.2 million children in september 2009.
Read more

Let´s increase the number in 2010! Join the efforts www.peaceoneday.org

Elie Wiesel- Nobel Peace Price winner

Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel is a writer, professor at Boston University, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor.The author of 57 books, his best known book is Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.

Elie Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The Norwegian Nobel Committee called him a "messenger to mankind" due to his work in the cause of peace, atonement and human dignity.
Read his full biography

Interview with Elie Wiesel.

Pipes of Peace- Paul McCartney

Make a commitment to Peace.

Please get involved the 21st of september in Peace day, you can make a difference in this world.

The Nobel Peace Prize 1994- Rev. Desmond Tutu

Rev. Desmond Tutu is a South African cleric and activist opponent of apartheid. In 1984, Tutu became the second South African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Tutu was the first black South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa.

He has receive serveral awards, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Himanitariasm, the Gandhi Peace Prize in 2005 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009.

He is an advocate for the defense of human rights. He uses his high profile to participate in campaigns to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, homophobia, poverty and racism.

Rev. Desmond Tutu has formulated his objective as "a democratic and just society without racial divisions". He has also compiled several books of his speeches and sayings.

Biography

Interview with Rev. Desmond Tutu.

The Desmond Tutu Peace Centre

Peace song- Dj Bob Sinclair

How did we contribute to achieve peace in our family and in our community this week?
Let´s think about it during the weekend.
Enjoy the sun and the Peace song!

why can´t we all get along?

If they can get pass their enormous differences, why can´t we?

Muhammad Yunus- 2006 Nobel Peace Laureate

Portrait of Muhammad Yunus-

Interview with Muhammad Yunus

A very interesting interview with Muhammad Yunus, 2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. He gives us his opinion in different important subjects that lead to peace and to end poverty in this world. He talks about human being capacity and how to explode that capacity.
The interviewer is Marika Griehsel, freelance journalist in december 2006.

Music knows no boundaries

We like the initiative Playing for change: Peace through Music.
Music is a universal language, there is music everywhere, there are no boundaries in music. Playing for change is a movement that unite the world through music. Music helps us to persevere through struggles and celebrate our differences which changes the world into a more peaceful place

This track was performed by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it traveled the globe.



check the Peace for Music film clip

Reflections: Educating the heart & Creativity and Well-Being

This is the third part of a four-part series with the Dalai Lama Center's founding director Victor Chan as part of the 2009 Vancouver Peace Summit. This summit was a global event that brought five Nobel Laureates and many world-renowned thinkers and leaders in social transformation to Vancouver to talk about creating a more compassionate, peaceful world.

The first panel discussed the link between creativity and well-being while the second panel spoke of the importance of heart-mind education.
To watch these interesting discussions, just click the links in blue.

Creativity and Well-Being;
Panel participants:
The Dalai Lama, Sir Ken Robinson, Daniel Segal, Matt Goldman (Blue Man Group), Eckhart Tolle, Murray Gell-Mann.

Heart-Mind Education; Enhancing academic, social, and emotional competence.
Panel participants:
The Dalai Lama, Clyde Hertzman, Kim Schonert-Reichl, Adele Diamond, Stephen Covey and Mairead Maguire.
For more information...

Educating the Heart and Mind: A Path to Universal Responsibility

Nobel Laureautes in Dialogue- connecting for Peace

Nobel Laureates in Dialogue- connecting for Peace was another one of the interesting discussions held during the Peace Summit that took place at The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education in 2009.

The Panel was moderated by Mary Robinson

Panel participants:
The Dalai Lama
Rev. Mpho Tutu
Mairead Maguire
Betty Williams
Jody Williams


In this inspiring dialogue Four Nobel Laureates(The Dalai Lama, Mairead Maguire, Betty Williams and Jody Williams) discussed their motivations and own experiences of connecting for change. They shared their perspectives on our responsability at the present time.

To watch this interesting discussion follow the link below:

http://watch.ctv.ca/the-2009-peace-summit/vancouver/2009-peace-summit---vancouver---sunday-september-27th-2009/