The seeds of the Peace Appeal were planted in 1997 when our co-founders joined a collaborative effort that enlisted every living Nobel Peace Prize Laureate to issue the Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates for Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World. This foundational document called on the Heads of State of all the United Nations’ member countries to dedicate themselves to building a culture of peace and nonviolence.

Our co-founders launched the Appeal of the Nobel Peace Laureates Foundation with the support of the five founding laureates—Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk, Desmond Tutu, Mairead Maguire and Adolfo Perez Esquivel—as a platform to promote the ideals of the Appeal. Our earliest initiatives focused on non-violence education with local partners in Sweden, the Balkans, South Africa and the United States.

Today we are known as the Peace Appeal.

OUR VISION

We envision a world in which all children grow up free from the fear of violent conflict and secure in the respect of their inherent human dignity.

OUR MISSION

We work with local partners to catalyze social and political change processes to advance peace with justice.

OUR SHARED VALUES

We believe in:

ACTIVE NON-VIOLENCE

“If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present.”
—Mairead Maguire

DIALOGUE

“Transformative dialogue requires moral imagination, an openness to the possibility of reaching out beyond the self to the other.”
—Hannes Siebert

UBUNTU
(Humanity Toward Others)

“Ubuntu—the profound sense that we are human only through the humanity of others; if we are to accomplish anything in this life it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others.”
—Nelson Mandela

WELLBEING OF CHILDREN

“…It is the innocent—and particularly the children—who are the main victims of conflicts… They deserve peace…”
—FW DeKlerk

JUST PEACE

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”
—Desmond Tutu

RESTORATION OF
HUMAN DIGNITY

“Every peace process requires, as an essential ingredient, the restoration of dignity and fundamental rights.”
—Hannes Siebert

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