World Peace through Personal Peace

The first of the dialogues, World Peace through Personal Peace that took place in The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education during the 2009 Peace Summit in Vancouver, Canada.

An intimate and personal discussion with the Dalai Lama and other respected leaders from across the globe who have inspired societal change through their personal endeavors.
Their thoughts about how personal peace shapes people behaviour and believes and can help us work towards building a peaceful world.

The Panel discussion was moderated by Sir Ken Robinson
Session participants:
The Dalai Lama, Mpho Tutu, Eckhart Tolle, Pierre Omidyar and Matthieu Ricard.

Watch this inspiring video of how to achieve world peace through personal peace.
http://watch.ctv.ca/the-2009-peace-summit/vancouver/2009-peace-summit---vancouver---sunday-september-27th-2009/

Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education

The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, Canada, that educates through creative learning, facilitating and applying research, and connecting people and ideas.
Founded in 2005 by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Victor Chan, the center embodies his Holiness´ lifelong commitment to compassion and inner well-being.

"Educating the heart" is the Center´s tag line.
By bringing peace into our own lives, the center will help to bring peace into the world.

The Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education hosted the "Vancouver Peace Summit"that took place on Sept 27-29, 2009 and was built on four dialogues:
World Peace through Personal Peace, Nobel Laureautes in Dialogue: Connecting for Peace,Educating the heart and Women, and Peace-building.

In this global peace summit, five Nobel Laureate participated and many more world-renowned thinkers and leaders in social transformation went to Vancouver to talk about creating a more compassionate and peaceful world.
We will share videos and information about this sessions in the following days.

www.dalailamacenter.org

World Peace Festival in Berlin

World Peace Festival is an ongoing world peace initiative that builds sustainable communities. Tom Oliver the creator of this fesival wants to establish a genuine state of global peace and inspire and empower people to be more at peace with themselves, others and their environment.
The World Peace Festival will include interesting seminars, workshops, cultural exhibitions, sports, art and music events. The Festival will take place in Berlin in August 26-28,2011.

Jeanette Ohlsson had the opportunity to meet Tom Oliver. Listen to this interesting interview.

Imagine Peace Tower by Yoko Ono

For more information on Yoko Ono´s Peace work and activities, please visit:
www.imaginepeace.com

Playing For Change | Peace Through Music

Playing for a change is a very important project started to encourage Peace through Music.

The act of playing music with people of different cultures, religions, economics and politics is a powerful statement. It shows that we can find ways of working together and sharing our experiences with one another in a positive way. Music has the power to break down the walls between cultures, to raise the level of human understanding.
~ Mark Johnson, founder, Playing for Change

Please check the link of this initiative

www.playingforchange.com

This is the first song of "many songs around the world", from the award-winning documentary, "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music". Featured is a cover of the Ben E. King classic by musicians around the world adding their part to the song as it travelled around the world.

Peace and Music

Music has been use all around the world as a call for Peace. Through festivals, concerts, albums, videos the message of peace is spread through music.
We hope you have a great week!
Enjoy!

Give Peace a chance

John Lennon was a talented musician supporter of peace in the world.