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Amir Dossal
@The Global Partnerships Forum

Berlin World Peace Festival 2011 Interviews

Deepak Chopra, James O'Dea, Mairead Maguire and Arun Gandhi
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"Mastering the Matrix" - Scenes from the interviews with Tom Oliver

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"Tools for Peace"

Dr. Scilla Elworthy talks about "Tools for Peace" - Tools for Peace contains the 'tried and trusted' methods used by wise, experienced people all over the world to transform the conflicts they face into opportunities. These tools work just as effectively in our families and communities as they do in situations of extreme violence and civil war. They also work within ourselves, which is where peace begins.
(film produced by www.talkworks.info in association with www.different-films.com)

"Peace leads to better business"

November 2010: "Peace leads to better business" - Tom Oliver (Founder & CEO of World Peace Partnership) in interview with World Bank at European Parliament:

"We have to adopt the belief that life is based on cooperation and not on cutthroat competition. Since the major challenges we are facing today are global we have to actually cooperate on a global scale in an unprecedented way to solve these challenges. That means that the cooperations that are learning now to cooperate will be the ones coming out on top in the future.

We can actually see that peace leads to better business, which in turns leads to higher national wealth. As studies have shown the per capita GDP increases the more peaceful the country becomes. What does it mean for a company to be ethical? Well it means to be ethical all across different levels; ethical towards the consumers and ethical towards the leadership of a company but also ethical towards the company’s employees. And it’s actually fascinating what happens when a company is focusing on the happiness of its employees.

In Africa there is a famous handshake which is called Ubuntu and that actually means I am because you are. That’s a fascinating inspiration for us all how to live in harmony if you adopt that way of thinking."

"The most influential peace gathering in history"

2010: Most Rev. Dr. Desmond Mpilo  Tutu speaking about the World Peace Festival taking place in August 2011:

"In August 2011 the World Peace Festival will take place in Berlin. This will be the largest and most influential peace gathering in history, bringing together the best artists, musicians, teachers, celebrities, athletes, business leaders, military generals and peace builders to work together with you and me. We shall not only be building a new community of people around the globe active on peace initiatives and a new vision for living in peace but working on the nuts and bolts the tools needed to carry it out. This great event is a milestone for our times, a turning point in the efforts of hundreds of thousands people worldwide to transform violent conflict. It merits your whole-hearted support."

"Invitation to the World Peace Festival"

2010: Tom Oliver (Founder & CEO):

"The World Peace Festival will be a celebration of peace for people of all ages. It will also, however, inspire and empower people to be more at peace with themselves, others and their environment. As long as we believe that war is inevitable we will continue to have war. As long as we believe that it’s right to use violence to further our goals we will continue to have violence. The purpose of the World Peace Festival in Berlin is to shed light on one of mankind’s most current challenges and most pressing problems: the urgent need to put an end to war and to attain a genuine state of global peace. This is what we’ll do: we will demonstrate that this path to peace can be taken by every individual. We will give the individual tools, practical tools. We call them tools for peace. Those will be simple, practical exercises anyone can do to be more at peace with themselves, others and the environment. What is an attainable path, a practical path to global peace then? Well, if you reach a critical mass of people, who are practical idealists, who believe that the ends do not justify the means, if we reach a critical mass of individuals that refuses to go to war for the sake of peace, religion or politics, we can have peace. If we reach a critical mass of mothers who refuse to send their sons to war for the sake of peace, politics or religion, we can have peace. If we as individuals become the change we want to see in the world, we can have peace. We now invite you to become part of this unique event."