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"In your commitment to fostering peace, I hope you will continue to aim to motivate members of your community and beyond to work together with the United Nations in making Peace a practical reality in the 21st century and into the new millennium- I wish you and your colleagues every success in your most worthy undertaking."
- Gillian M. Sorensen,
Under-Secretary-General,
United Nations (1994)
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About
CPI
The CULTURE OF PEACE INITIATIVE
(formerly the "WE THE PEOPLES" INITIATIVE)
is a United Nations-designated "Peace
Messenger Initiative" - with Participants
in all the world's regions.
The genesis and purposes of the CULTURE OF PEACE INITIATIVE
are intertwined with that of the United Nations.
Since
1983, CPI (formerly WPI) has
served as a vehicle for bringing
forward the previously unseen
and unheard voices working
towards Peace. It also serves
to unite the strengths of
existing individuals and organizations
building Cultures of Peace
for succeeding generations.
In
the spirit of the original
vision that brought forth
the Charter of the United
Nations, the Initiative was
granted UN Peace Messenger
Initiative status in 1989.
The purpose of this globa/local
Initiative is to build a Culture
of Peace in the 21st century,
uniting the strengths of organisations,
projects and peoples in order
to make Peace a practical
reality for the children of
this and future generations.
The
annual highlight day of the
CULTURE OF PEACE INITIATIVE
is the International Day of
Peace,
21 September.
This
annual Peace Day marks our
personal and planetary progress
toward Peace. Peace Day also
serves to remind us that our
commitment, above all interests
or differences of any kind,
is to Peace.
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The
CULTURE OF PEACE INITIATIVE
(formerly the "WE
THE PEOPLES" INITIATIVE)
originated in 1983 as
a programme of Pathways
To Peace by Avon Mattison,
Founder and President,
and Robert Muller, then
Assistant Secretary-General
of the United Nations.
It is a co-operative movement
to unite the strengths
of existing organizations
and projects toward making
Peace a practical reality
in the 21st century. The
annual highlight of this
Initiative is the International
Day of Peace (Peace Day),
which is celebrated worldwide
on September 21.
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The current Roster of CPI Participants
includes diverse international organisations,
projects and people in all the world's
regions. Each year, Pathways To Peace
submits a CPI Report to the United Nations,
listing activities which take place on
International Day of Peace. This "Annual
Report of the Culture of Peace Initiative"
is dedicated to the United Nations and
to UNESCO's International Decade for the
Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for
the Children of the World (2001-2010).
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