The International Salon for Peace Initiatives is organized in the framework of the

International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the first decade of the 21st century and the third millennium, the years 2001 to 2010, as the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World. This followed ...

(2001–2010) declared by the United Nations in 1998. Organized by the French Coalition for the Decade, it has been taken place in Paris every two years since 2004. This Salon hosts the International Conference on the Culture of Peace and Non-Violence, organized by the French Coalition for the Decade in collaboration with the International Coalition for the Decade. This Conference create a space for thinking and meeting for all those involved in this field, in France, Europe and all over the world.

2nd International Salon for Peace Initiatives – 2006

The 2d International Salon for Peace Initiatives has taken place in Paris on 2–4 June 2006, in the Centre des Congrès de la Villette, in the

Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie The Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie ("City of Science and Industry", abbreviated la CSI) or simply CSI is the biggest science museum in Europe. Located in the Parc de la Villette in Paris, France, it is one of the three dozen French Cultur ...

(Paris). The second international Salon for Peace Initiatives was held under the auspices of the

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

the French Foreign Office and the City of Paris, in partnership with the Secours catholique – Caritas France, the CCFD, Non-violence XXI,

Partage Partage, from the French word "partager" meaning "to share," was a system put in place to divide up ownership of excavated artifacts during the early part of the 20th century. This system was mostly notably employed in Egypt, Iraq, Cyprus, Syria, ...

, ''

Le Monde ''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...

'', '' La Vie'', ''

Télérama ''Télérama'' is a weekly French cultural and television magazine published in Paris, France. The name is a contraction of its earlier title: ''Télévision-Radio-Cinéma''. Fabienne Pascaud is currently managing editor. Ludovic Desautez is de ...

'', RFI and TV5 and with the support of

Pax Christi Pax Christi International is an international Catholic peace movement. The Pax Christi International website declares its mission is "to transform a world shaken by violence, terrorism, deepening inequalities, and global insecurity." History ...

France. This Salon has help a wide public get familiar with the culture of peace and non-violence. 168 French and international exhibitors were presenting their peace and non-violence initiatives on 116 booths. They have proposed 40 interactive workshops and other activities with 13,000 participants.

International Conference – Actors for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence – 2006

This Salon has hosted the International Conference "Actors for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence". Seven round tables and sixty workshops helped the participants to discover the different aspects of the culture of peace and non-violence. Among the speakers were: * Adolfo Pérez Esquivel,

Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiolog ...

laureate, president of Serpaj-AL (Argentina) * David Adams, Fundación Cultura de Paz (United States) * Sister Marie-Bernard Alima Mbalula, Executive secretary of the Justice and Peace Commission (Democratic Republic of the Congo and Central Africa – Great Lakes) * Ibrahima Fall, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Great Lakes Region (Senegal) * Hildegard Goss-Mayr,

Niwano Peace Prize The Niwano Peace Prize is given to honor and encourage those devoting themselves to interreligious co-operation in the cause of peace and to make their achievements known. Its foundation hopes that the prize will further promote interreligious co-o ...

Laureate,

IFOR The Implementation Force (IFOR) was a NATO-led multinational peace enforcement force in Bosnia and Herzegovina under a one-year mandate from 20 December 1995 to 20 December 1996 under the codename ''Operation Joint Endeavour''. Background NATO ...

(Austria) * Sigrid Niedermayer, International Coordinator of the

Associated Schools Project Network (Paris, France) * Rajagopal, Vice-president of the Gandhi Peace Foundation (India) *

Cornelio Sommaruga Cornelio Sommaruga (born December 29, 1932 in Rome) is a Swiss humanitarian, lawyer and diplomat who is best known for being President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 1987 to 1999. Today, he chairs the Geneva Internati ...

, International president of

Initiatives of Change Initiatives of Change (IofC) is a global organisation dedicated to "building trust across the world's divides" of culture, nationality, belief, and background. Initiatives of Change was known as Moral Re-Armament (MRA) from 1938 to 2001, and the ...

(Switzerland) *

Jean Vanier Jean Vanier (, September 10, 1928 – May 7, 2019) was a Canadian Catholic philosopher and theologian. In 1964, he founded L'Arche, an international federation of communities spread over 37 countries for people with developmental disabilities a ...

, founder of the Arch Community (Canada / France) Hundreds organizations came from all over the world to participate to this conference.

3rd International Salon for Peace Initiatives – May–June 2008

The 3rd International Salon for Peace Initiatives will take place in Paris on 30 May – 1 June 2008, in the

. It will help a wide public to get familiar with the culture of peace and non-violence. Around 200 French and international exhibitors will present their peace and non-violence initiatives and several activities will be proposed, included 40 interactive workshops, films and exhibitions. The third international Salon for Peace Initiatives will be held under the auspices of the UN, the

, the

UNRIC The United Nations Regional Information Centre (UNRIC) is one of 63 United Nations Information Centres (UNICs) around the world. Their main task is to spread the UN message, raise awareness and create understanding of issues relating to the Unite ...

, the French Commission for UNESCO, the French Foreign Office, the Regional council of Ile-de-France and the City of Paris, in partnership with the Secours catholique- Réseau mondial Caritas, Non-violence XXI,

, ''

'', '' La Vie'' and RFI, and also with the support of

France and the Secours islamique. Several organizations will be partners of this Salon in order to enrich the culture of peace and non-violence and to highlight its numerous dimensions:

justice Justice, in its broadest sense, is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, with the interpretation of what then constitutes "deserving" being impacted upon by numerous fields, with many differing viewpoints and perspective ...

, non-violent resolution of conflicts, mediation, human rights defense, environmental respect and development,

disarmament Disarmament is the act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons. Disarmament generally refers to a country's military or specific type of weaponry. Disarmament is often taken to mean total elimination of weapons of mass destruction, such as ...

gender equality Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing d ...

, international solidarity etc.

International Conference – Actor for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence – 2008

This Salon will host the International Conference "Actor for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence", organized by the French Coalition for the Decade in collaboration with the International Coalition for the Decade. This Conference will create a space for thinking and meeting for all those involved in this field, in France and all over the world. Six round tables and sixty workshops will allow for the encounter and the debate among several scientific disciplines (sociology, psychology and pedagogy) and several citizen practices (associative, political) from the whole world. They will take into account the death anniversary of two major figures of non-violence: M. K.

Gandhi Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (; ; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948), popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist Quote: "... marks Gandhi as a hybrid cosmopolitan figure who transformed ... anti- ...

(1948) and

Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968 ...

(1968). Speakers of this International Conference will be: *

Federico Mayor Federico Mayor Zaragoza (born 27 January 1934 in Barcelona) is a Spanish scientist, scholar, politician, diplomat, and poet. He served as director-general of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999. He is currently the chairman of the Foundation for a Culture of ...

, president of the Fundación Cultura de Paz (

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

) and member of the Honorary Board of the International Coalition for the Decade * Marco Allenbach, High Educational School of Vaud (

Lausanne , neighboring_municipalities= Bottens, Bretigny-sur-Morrens, Chavannes-près-Renens, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Crissier, Cugy, Écublens, Épalinges, Évian-les-Bains (FR-74), Froideville, Jouxtens-Mézery, Le Mont-sur-Lausanne, Lugrin (FR ...

, Switzerland) * Gabriella Battaini, Director general for Education, Culture and Heritage, Youth and Sport, Council of Europe ( Strasbourg, France) * María José Brioso Valcárcel, Centro de Investigación y Documentación Educativa (CIDE), Ministry for the Education and the Sciences, Spain * Richard Deats, former editor of FOR's ''Fellowship'', author of biographies of M. K.

and

, trainer in non-violence in Burma in 2007 (United States) * Jean-Baptiste Eyraud, president of Droit au Logement (DAL) *

Chuck Fager Charles Eugene Fager (born 1942), known as Chuck Fager, is an American activist, author, editor, publisher and an outspoken and prominent member of the Religious Society of Friends or Quakers. He is known for his work in both the Civil Rights Mo ...

, director of Fayetteville's Quaker House (United States) * Jacques Généreux, economist, professor at the Paris Institute for Political Studies (Sciences Po), chronicler for France-Culture and ''Alternatives économiques'', author of the ''Manifesto for a human economy'' (Paris, France) * Hildegard Goss-Mayr, Niwano Peace Prize Laureate and Honorary Board of

, Vienna (Austria) * Nancy Irving, general Secretary of the Friends World Consultative Committee (FWCC), (London,

Great-Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is d ...

) * Jean-Baptiste Libouban, member of the Ark of Lanza del Vasto and of Voluntary Ripers, France * Elisabeth Maheu-Vaillant, IUFM of Rouen, trainer in conflict regulation, IFMAN (Rouen, France) * Manuel Manonelles, director of the Barcelone Board of Fundación Cultura de Paz * May Moufarrej, Mouvement Social Libanais, Liban * Daniele Novara, director of the Centro Psicopedagogico per la Pace e la gestione dei conflitti (

Piacenza Piacenza (; egl, label= Piacentino, Piaṡëinsa ; ) is a city and in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, and the capital of the eponymous province. As of 2022, Piacenza is the ninth largest city in the region by population, with over ...

), (Italy) *

Alain Richard Alain Richard (, born 29 August 1945) is a French politician serving as Senator for Val-d'Oise since 2011. A member of the National Assembly for Val-d'Oise from 1978 to 1993, he was elected to the Senate in 1995 before his appointment as Minis ...

, franciscan and vice-president of the International Coalition for the Decade * André Robertfroid, president of the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) and former Deputy General Director of the

UNICEF UNICEF (), originally called the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund in full, now officially United Nations Children's Fund, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to ...

, Amsterdam/Belgium * Alessandro Rossi, European coordinator,

Nonviolent Peaceforce Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) is a nonpartisan unarmed peacekeeping organization with the goal of protecting civilians and reducing violence in areas affected by armed conflict. NP holds Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Cou ...

(

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

, Belgium) *

Mohamed Sahnoun Mohamed Sahnoun ( ar, محمد سحنون ) (8 April 1931 – 20 September 2018) was an Algerian diplomat who served as ambassador of Algeria to Germany, France, the United States and Morocco as well as permanent representative of Algeria to the ...

, Algerian diplomat, president of

International, former special representative of the United Nations and the African Union for the Great Lakes region (Caux, Switzerland) * Ramesh Sharma, secretary of Ekta Parishad, organizer of the Janadesh March and member of the National Committee of the Land Reform(India) * Qian Tang, UNESCO Deputy Assistant Director-General for Education *

Arche ''Arche'' (; grc, ἀρχή; sometimes also transcribed as ''arkhé'') is a Greek word with primary senses "beginning", "origin" or "source of action" (: from the beginning, οr : the original argument), and later "first principle" or "element". ...

(France / Canada) *

Claudette Werleigh Claudette Werleigh (born 26 September 1946) is a Haitian politician who served as the prime minister of Haiti from 1995 to 1996. She was Haiti's first female Prime Minister. In 1999 Werleigh became Director at the Life & Peace Institute in Upp ...

, Secretary-general of Pax Christi International, former Prime Minister of Haiti and former director of the Conflict resolution programme at the Life and Peace Institute (

, Belgium)

External links

1st International Salon for Peace Initiatives

On Radio France Internationale website

TV Broadcasts online

Peut-on éduquer à la paix ? documentary – 2006 – 26 mn (in French). France 2 presents the 2d Salon for Peace Initiatives (in French)The 3d Salon for Peace Initiatives in May–June 2008 on Dailymotion (in French)Speech of Federico Mayor Zaragoza, former UNESCO General Director, in the 3d Salon for Peace Initiatives in May–June 2008 on Dailymotion (in French)

Radio Broadcasts online

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20080612134127/http://www.beurfm.net/spip.php?rubrique=13 Présentation of the 3d Salon for Peace Initiatives in May–June 2008 on Beur FM (in French)br>Interview with Algerian médiators participating to the 3d Salon for Peace Initiatives in May–June 2008 on Radio Monte-Carlo Doualiya (in French)

Articles online

"La paix, invitée de La Villette", Interview of Christian Renoux in ''L'Humanité'' about the 2d Salon for Peace Initiatives in 2006 (in French)Article in ''La Croix'' about the 3d Salon for Peace Initiatives in May–June 2008 (in French)Broadcast and article about the 3d Salon for Peace Initiatives in May–June 2008 on Radio-Vatican (in Portuguese)Broadcast and article about the 3d Salon for Peace Initiatives in May–June 2008 on Radio-Vatican (in Italian)Article about the 3d Salon for Peace Initiatives in May–June 2008 in ''Magyar Kurir'' (Budapest) (in Hungarian)
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