Nobel Laureates issue Charter for a World Without Violence

For the last three years the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates have conferred on a Charter that would lay the path toward a non-violent world. 

At the World Summit of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Rome, in December 2007, the Charter was released. Nobel Laureates Mikhail Gorbachev, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Muhamad Yunus, Mairead Maguire and Betty Williams were joined by Bob Geldof and others to celebrate its release. 

In an accompanying statement the Laureates stressed that the Charter was only a beginning. “We as Nobel Peace Laureates and Peace Laureate organizations have a duty to demand answers to these questions and we commit to continue to press political candidates and all world leaders for responses," they said. "We encourage citizens, especially youth who will be most effected by the answer to these questions, to energetically pursue them also. Further, we expect the press to insist that candidates and leaders articulate their plans to ensure a sustainable and just future”.

Click here to read the text of the charter, and watch videos of the Dalai Lama, Mikhail Gorbachev, Muhammad Yunus and others at the release of the Charter.

 

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