 When
a company has been approved by PeaceTrust.net for the Seal of Integrity,
consumers know that it is a legitimate business, their website is verified with
a $10,000 assurance, and that the website owner is "with us" having
signed the Manifesto 2000 for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence (see below).
Companies
that earn the right to display the Seal will be listed in the our
directory of recommended businesses promoted in association with hundreds of peace groups
around the world to millions of people.
The
international peace movement is the fastest growing network of people in the
world today. Hundreds of thousands of people, even millions of people are
marching the streets of major cities calling for a peaceful resolution to the
worlds conflicts. The current issue, the
 war on
Iraq is generating a deep
concern amongst the general public and consumers want to
see business owners actively supporting the concept of a peaceful resolution on
this and other conflict issues.
Companies supporting the war establishments and that are supplying the armaments
industries will over the coming months be subject to boycott and other consumer
actions against them.
It
is estimated that more than 50 million people are directly reached through the
international network of peace organizations and this number is growing rapidly. The organizations cooperate
through a loose network and currently there are more than 2000 groups listed in
the Peace 2000 database.
If
your company has no military contracts and is not in any way connected to the
armaments industry, you may qualify for the PeaceTrust.net Seal of Integrity
placing you ahead of the competition to the growing number of consumers that
want to push for lasting world peace.
Peace 2000 at a meeting organized at the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica
in 1996 proposed to the Secretary General of the United Nations that year 2000
be declared UN year of peace. We are grateful for how well the Secretary
General took our proposal and for the Nobel Peace Prize laureates Manifesto 2000
that became an important part of this initiative.
FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE AND NON-VIOLENCE
The story begins with the
Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh who was the first to ask that
nonviolence  should be taught in schools.
Marie-Pierre Bovy, President of
the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), then suggested that there
should be a Year of Nonviolence. Pierre Marchand who founded the
humanitarian organisation "Partage avec les Enfants du Monde", and an
IFOR delegate to UNESCO's Culture of Peace programme, took up the challenge by
writing the text of the Appeal
for the Children of the World. The Irish Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead
Corrigan-Maguire then signed it and requested Mother Teresa, Aung
San Suu Kyi and the Dalai Lama - and all her fellow Peace Laureates -
to do likewise. After all the Nobel Laureates had signed, they sent the Appeal
to the Head of State of every country in the world.
The result is a United
Nations resolution – unamimously approved by all the Member States on 10
November 1998 – proclaiming
the first decade of the new millennium (2001 - 2010) to be the International
Decade for the promotion of a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence, and the year
2000 to be the International Year for the Culture of Peace. UNESCO then
published its Manifesto
2000 which – as of December 2001 – has collected over 72 million
signatures for peace. This was the first step. The real work begins now: to
create a global culture of peace.
See Manifesto 2000 & the Peace
2000 Appeal for Human Security Here!
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