What's so hard about Peace? - the series

TheCommunity.com is producing a series of interviews for television with Paul Simon, Michael Douglas, Bono and other artists interviewing the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. The series will bring the lives and wisdom of these leaders -- seen through the eyes of some of the icons of today's global culture -- into homes across the globe.

CONCEPT

The Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, more than any other group, harbor the wisdom needed to help countries and regions move from conflict to resolution – based on hard experience, courage, and the uncommon gift of foresight. These are individuals who have stepped into conflict and war and have, through different approaches, successfully moved these trouble spots toward peace.

What's so hard about Peace? is an introduction to these special individuals. Through the series, the histories, personalities and sacrifices of the Nobel Laureates are revealed to us, through personal dialogue with some of the most celebrated and influential artists of our time.

The program consists of ten half-hour television segments, each with an internationally recognized celebrity interviewing one of the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates. The relaxed, personal interviews explore the roads taken by these courageous individuals, the difficult choices they have had to make along the way, and the larger questions of what it is going to take for us as a race to work ourselves out of a perpetual state of war.

PRODUCTION

Interviews completed:
Bono and Mikhail Gorbachev, Turin, Italy
Michael Douglas and Joseph Rotblat, Hamburg, Germany
Paul Simon and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Dharamsala, India

Interviews in scheduling:
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South Africa
Jose Ramos-Horta, East Timor
Kim Dae Jung, South Korea
Shirin Ebadi, Iran

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Bono and President Mikhail Gorbachev:

Michael Douglas and nuclear scientist Joseph Rotblat:

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