Introduction To The World Peace Conference

The Wholistic Peace Institute holds regular World Peace Conference’s in different cities of the world bringing multiple Nobel Peace Prize winners to offer their creativity to solving out most violent prone problems. The Institute does all it can to “stop the killing in the world and to end the torture", especially at the nation to nation level. The Institute holds as its teachers the world’s Nobel Peace Laureates. As such the Institute has as its core values: a reverence for all life, compassion, forgiveness, and the non-violent resolution of country to country conflicts. The Institute believes non-violence is the only practical goal for the people of the earth. The Institute finds alternative ways, such as dialogue, mediation, and Wholistic Methods to use to resolve conflicts successfully. It offers these in the World Peace Conferences it puts on, as well as classes it teaches, and in Peace Studies it conducts. The Institute is a resource for those engaged in world peace activities.

A Wholistic Approach To Peace In The Middle East: Setting The Study Framework

The Second World Peace Conference: “Peace In The Middle East”,
Rome, Italy, November 2004

The second World Peace Conference will be held in Rome, Italy Nov 8-9, 2004 at the Univ. of Rome. Plans are now underway to partner with Gorvachev Foundation and Mayor Walter Veltroni’s Nobel Peace Forum in November, 2004. Meetings have been held with the University of Rome, the United Nations-FAO, and the Vatican Pontifical Council Of Justice & Peace to form partnerships for the Conference. Also Nobel Peace Laureates: Lech Walesa, Betty Williams, Dr. Oscar Arias Sanchez, Dr. William Schulz (Amnesty), and Dr. Robert Musil (Physicians for Social Responsibility) have also been contacted. Also Dr. Helen Caldicott has been called and a number of middle east religious leaders have been approached and invited to the conference, including the chief rabbi of Israel and the Imam of the largest Mosque in the United States.

The purpose of the conference is to make a contribution to restarting the peace process in the Middle East. Without an on-going dialogue toward peace the violence will begin to spiral out of control, if it has not already. The great hate that exists there is a fertile ground for the potential exchange of nuclear weapons. Sooner or later the terrorists there may acquire a nuclear weapon and with the intense animosity toward Israel could use it there. This could in turn trigger the use of nuclear weapons by Israel and perhaps an even larger nuclear exchange by other states not in the Middle East. If this nuclear exchange occurs it could affect the entire planet with the potential of a “global winter”. Or perhaps more regionally as Chernobyl did when no milk could be drunk in countries as far away as Ireland, for two full years, due to the high levels of strontium 90 in cows milk.

The World Peace Conference will focus on the Middle East and is entitled, “New Approaches For Peace In The Middle East”. The Conference will have two aspects to it. First a dialogue and critique of existing Middle East peace plans by multiple Nobel Peace Laureates. Presently there are the following Middle East Peace Plans on the table:

• The Road Map To Peace For Peace (Sponsored by the United States)
• The Geneva Initiative For Peace (Grass roots peace plan)
• The Alexandra Initiative For Peace (Religious initiative by the Archbishop of Canterbury)
• A Wholistic Approach To Peace In The Middle East (A Peace Plan The Wholistic Peace Institute Will Place On The Table At The Beginning Of The Conference)

A dialogue on these peace plans would address these questions : Why are they not working? What are their strong points? What are their weak points? What new peace initiative is needed? What can we learn from the Northern Ireland accords (Betty Williams), or the work of Solidarity (Lech Walesa), or the Sandinista-Contra Peace Agreement (Dr. Oscar Arias Sanchez)? The multiple Nobel Peace Laureates who will attend the conference will develop a Nobel Peace Initiative for peace in the Middle East. Based on the development of their thoughts on how to achieve peace in the Middle East, which will be known as the Nobel Peace Initiative For The Middle East. We hope to have a 25-page document, which will come from this conference, which will hopefully add new ideas on how to restart the peace process there.