This website is an initiative by the Peace 2000 Institute a non profit
organizatin with associates in more than 40 countries. Peace 2000 has for
a number of years flown humanitarian aid to children in war torn areas.
The organization has produced TV infomercials against violence and is now
expanding it's media work with the launch of a cooperative grassroots television
network with a focus on peace, human rights, reconciliation and community
building. Peace 2000 is developing the concept of the Althing Peace
Assembly as an important step towards democratic development towards peace
in the Middle East and other conflict areas.
Peace 2000
was founded in 1995 at a town meeting set by the Icelandic Minister for the
Environment with 500 people and speakers from organizations around the world,
including UNESCO, World Court Project and the Chernobyl Childrens Project.
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The above photograph is of five year old Amal who we evacuated from a warn
torn country in cooperation with CNN and flew by air ambulance for urgent
hospital treatment in Amsterdam.
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of Peace 2000 working in the field.
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Peace 2000
has been awarded for its Santa aid flights to war torn areas done under a
special permission of the UN Security Council, by the Gandhi Foundation, UNESCO
and the Greek Orthodox Church who decorated its founder, Icelandic Presidential
Candidate Thor Magnusson with their Holy Gold Cross for humanitarian work at a
ceremony in memory of Mother Theresa and Princess Diana.
The work of
Peace 2000 has been featured by REUTERS, CNN, ABC, CBS and others. Peace 2000
has worked together with several other charities, including the Red Cross and
the Red Crescent.
The work of
Peace 2000 has been made entirely possible by the support of corporate and
government sponsors including: Boeing Aeroplane Group, Alitalia, Icelandair, Air
Atlanta, Air Cyprus, Royal Jordanian Airways, Cronus Airways,Parcelpost,
LandRover, British Civil Aviation Authority, Eurocontrol,Hilton, Sheraton and
Intercontinental Hotels, DHL, Shell, BP, Verisign,
Western Union and more than 300 other companies around the world.
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