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PEACE INITIATIVE MISSION STATEMENT

"The Oneness of Humankind"

World Peace Initiatives focuses on promoting global peace through the collaborative, creative planning of large-scale outdoor artworks to be carried out subsequently at sites in five participating nations: China, Australia/Tasmania, Italy, Norway, and the United States (other countries are welcome to participate, please contact us!). All phases of planning, construction, and display will be fully documented using a variety of methods. The documentation generated will be widely distributed in order to carry on the group's work of using the arts to promote global peace. The World Peace Initiative's goal is to use the arts in cooperation with other disciplines for world peace. Our efforts focus on these hypotheses:

1. In the creation of large-scale, environmental artworks, people of all races, genders, and ethnicity can collaborate in peaceful relationships.
2. Multidisciplinary experiences can promote global peace by harnessing art and technology as tools for teaching people to achieve goals through cooperative, peaceful, creative problem solving.
3. Internationally composed teams can use the arts in cooperation with other disciplines to promote peace for all cultures in the twenty-first century.
4. Any products generated by the World Peace Initiative are to be donated to a recognized charitable organization to be agreed upon by participating groups and artists.

The project's teams and its co-facilitators (Lou Rizzolo and Nobel Schuler) believe that the human creative spirit is a common link among all culturally diverse peoples; that the creative process, realized through collaboration and intercultural connections, is a major factor in retaining and promoting a more peaceful, harmonious, and productive global society; that a creative, collaborative ethic can help bring order out of chaos; and that such concepts are transferable to other ways and conditions of life, and therefore contribute to a more qualitative way of life. We further believe that the arts are conduits to such learning and peaceful outcomes. Thus, our teams of international art leaders-carefully selected and professionally facilitated-can indeed arrive at appropriate plans for implementing strategies for world peace.