Wholistic Peace Institute

Gary Alan Spanovich

Founder & Executive Director of the Institute has accomplished humanitarian work in India since 1992 and in 1995 built a school for street children there with Rotarian assistance. Through this work he began to do humanitarian work for 53 Tibetan Refugee camps in India and began to work directly with the Dalai Lama on world peace.Gary has worked with five large Universities in Oregon along with a planning committee of Oregon's senior faith leaders. He also has worked with Oregon's Governor and First Lady, the Mayor of Portland and former US Senator Mark O. Hatfield.

He held his first World Peace Conference in 2001 and the Dalai Lama came speak. The Institute has held over a dozen major events in Oregon and has held its first international conference.Mr. Spanovich envisions holding a major world conference once a year and producing a book on the teachings of the Nobel Laureates at each event, to assist with stopping violence in the world. The Institute was formed to bring to bear the creativity and the unique knowledge of the Nobel Peace Laureates to solving the world's most violent prone and dangerous problem areas.

Areas of violence, such as the Middle East conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians; the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula; the nuclear crisis between India and Pakistan; the conflict between Taiwan and China; and others.Each of these areas of violence could precipitate the launch of a nuclear exchange, killing of millions of people. They are the world's most volatile areas and bringing the wisdom of multiple numbers of Nobel Peace Laureates and asking them to offer up either a new peace plan or suggestions on how existing peace plans, which may be stalled, can begin working, is the central means by which the Institute intends to reduce the violence in the world.