The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates
The last editions of the Summit were attended by:
20 Nobel Peace Laureates
272 international media
700 delegates
150 organisations and associations
The World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates ranks among the world’s important events in the field of peacemaking, non violence and the analysis of conflicts, social and ecological problems, and provides a platform to consider the actual problems of the world and its development. The Summits gives the possibility to take advantage of the authority and outstanding knowledge of the Nobel Peace Laureates with a view to consolidating peace and strengthening global security in the widest sense.
The Summits received the support from various personalities of social, scientific, political and cultural environments and along with Nobel Peace Laureates were attended by many prominent men and women dedicating a part of their life to affirm the principles of Peace and Solidarity in the world.
The first World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates was held in 1999 at the suggestion of the Gorbachev Foundation, as important occasions and platforms on which the Laureates are invited to discuss and formulate concrete proposals to tackle the planet’s emergencies and fight for human rights and for a world without violence.
The Summit has developed and grown over the years, gaining in credibility and importance, generating ideas and proposals, promoting international initiatives and campaigns to foster peace.
Over these years Nobel Laureates attending the Summit have discussed topics of fundamental importance for the building of a world of Peace: the emergency of extreme poverty suffered in a part of the world crushed by the weight of debt, the problem of managing water resources, the importance of ethics in political and economic actions, policies for the integration of peoples having different cultures, religions and traditions, the state of the African continent, the re-emergence of the nuclear danger, the central role of new generations in safeguarding human rights and the values of democracy.
The Summits are widely covered in the press and always conclude with a press conference and with the approval of a final declaration. These documents are the result of a combination of the knowledge and unique experience of individuals and groups which have played a leading role in the history of mankind and are aimed at putting forward concrete proposals addressed to the world leaders, government representatives and the international community. One of the most significant documents produced by the World Summit of Peace Laureates was the Charter for a World without Violence, the result of a three-year work of the Nobel Peace Laureates which was completed at the 2007 Summit.
From 1999 to 2007, the Summit was held in Rome with the support of the Municipality of Rome and its Mayors. In 2008 the Nobel Peace Laureates Summit became an international event hosted by different countries on the occasions of moments of great importance to the world’s history.
Since then it has been held in cities chosen in relation to their connection with the Summit’s main theme, forexample Paris on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Berlin tocelebrate the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Wall, making a major contribution to the international peacedebate, or Hiroshima being the 2010 Summit’s edition focused on Nuclear Disarmament.
Among the participants in these eleven years:
Mikhail Gorbachev, H.H. The Dalai Lama, F.W. De Klerk, Lech Walesa, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Shimon Peres, JoséRamos-Horta, Kim Dae Yung, Muhammad Yunus, Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Jody Williams,ShirinEbadi, Mohamed ElBaradei, Philipe Ximenes Belo, David Trimble, John Hume, Rigoberta Menchù Tum, AdolfoPerez Esquivel, Joseph Rotblat, Unicef (United Nations Children’s Fund), UN (United Nation), UNHCR (UnitedNation High Commissioner for Refugees), Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, IPPNW(International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War), IPB (International Peace Bureau), AmericanFriends Service Committee, Médecins Sans Frontières, Amnesty International, ILO (International LabourOrganization), ICBL (International Campaign to Ban Landmines), IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency),Grameen Bank, ICRC (International Committee), IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change),IFRC(International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)
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