This project concentrates upon the organisation of a series of worlwide conferences and an associated exhibitions, within a context of the international sphere of mankind, concerning the subject of non-violence.
Indeed, current international events provide us each day with a vision of a world corrupted by violence. Wars are raging, in families and countries worldwide, for many perceived ethical and unethical reasons. They are often extremely bloody and claim to hail from different origins - ethnic, religious, economical, political, and so on.
Nonetheless, humanity as a whole has been witness to the birth of a select few exceptional human beings, who have embraced alternatives to wreaking violence in their lifetimes.
Via these people, one can infer that it is indeed possible for an individual or a nation to cease being caught up in the cycle of violence. Such an effort would be of great testament to the thoughts and actions of these luminous protagonists of the non-violent way.
In the light of this, the proposed conferences and exhibitions on non-violence will deal with the life and works of the following luminaries: Emir ABDEL KADER, BAHA'U'llah/ Abdul' BAHA, Sheikh Ahmadou BAMBA, his Holiness the DALAI LAMA, Shirin EBADI, Soeur EMMANUELLE, Mahatma GANDHI, a distinguishing figure from JUDAISM in favour of peace, Martin Luther KING Jr, Wangari MAATHAI, Nelson MANDELA, William PENN, Eleanor ROOSVELT, Mother TERESA and Jody WIILLAMS. Further, it is pertinent to point out that the actions of these people of great peace have been recognized and praised by all, even their fiercest foes.
The conferences and exhibitions support the United Nations' initiative, which, in a historically unanimous vote of its General Assembly of the 10th November 1998, has declared the first decade of the 21st century, a "Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World (2000 - 2010)."
These conferences and exhibitions are the visible representation of these men who have known how to incarnate non-violence to such an extent as to make it a project of society.
The aim of these international conferences is to portray and utilise, as examples, the lives of these people of peace who have embodied, within their humanity, the concept of non-violence. In this approach they have blazed a trail on the road of conflict-resolution between races, beyond their differences. These differences, whether cultural, racial, economical, etc, are more often than not cause for destructive conflicts.
And yet, these differences, when not sources of violence, are the essences of life. These peace-loving people have had to think and act around fundamental axes, namely in:
