The inaugural World Peace Festival, Berlin 20 to 27 August 2011, had an impressive success. For the first time it united leading peace activists, United Nations Ambassadors from different regions in the world, leading high officials from the United Nations like Jordan Ryan, Assistant UN Secretary-General, leading NGO representatives from around the world, stakeholders from politics, business, civil society, philanthropists and Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to address and discuss systemic, holistic and sustainable solutions for global peace building.

The international peace conference on August 26 and 27 was preceded by an arts and cultural program and film festival that was made available to the general public and started on August 20. To this end international and national artist, photographers and documentary filmmakers presented their works focused around the issue of peace.

Tom Oliver, CEO and Founder of the World Peace Festival says: “For the first time we have succeeded to bring together at an international peace conference leading representatives from politics, military, civil society and business and thereby provide new momentum for peace building worldwide. The idea to bring stakeholders from various different areas from around the globe together to address this urgent topic and challenge, proofed to be an impressive success at the first World Peace Festival Conference. This led to the development and presentation of new solutions for holistic, systemic and sustainable peace building and it laid the basis for corporations across a multitude of different organizations, partners and countries. We have therefore reached our first milestone and are thankful for the support of all partners, participants, speakers and sponsors. We are especially highlighting the support and participation of the United Nations Ambassadors and of the United Nations Development Program, in addition to the support of the United Nations Office for Partnership and United Nations Department for Public Information. We applaud the offer of the UN Ambassadors to present the results of the conference at the UN General Assembly“.