Waging Peace on Multiple Fronts
Peace 2000 has since it´s founding in 1994 at a Peace Conference in Barcelona Spain under the name United World Foundation been campaigning for peace on multiple fronts.
With inspiration from the history of the oldest parliament in the world, the Althing in Iceland, that became a beacon of peace for a thousand years, the Peace 2000 Institute was setup in Reykjavik Iceland in cooperation with multiple peace and human rights organizations from around the world.
Santa Peaceflight
The first Santa Peaceflight was organized for the Chernobyl Children’s project. After the successful mission, Icelandic President Vigdis Finnbogadottir was visited by one of the children whose live was saved by the Peace 2000 ambulance flight.
The Santa Peaceflights were repeated to Baghdad and Sarajevo. Currently flights are being planned to the Middle East and Ukraine.
Althing Jerusalem
Peace 2000 is developing the concept of the Althing Peace Assembly as an important step towards democratic development towards peace in the Middle East. The Althing-Jerusalem project aims to spread the values of democracy in the Middle East, and more particularly within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Ukraine Peace Call
Peace 2000 calls for urgent negotiations to take place to end the violence in Ukraine. We call on Nobel Peace Prize Laureates to assist with putting together a team of leaders to engage in high level negotiations to end the hostilities.
Awarding peacemakers
The Leifr Eiriksson Peace Award is named after Leifr Eiriksson, son of Iceland, discoverer of Vinland – the American continent in the year 1000. On the same year, the Vikings of Iceland agreed to solve their differences on religion peacefully and lay down their arms at the Althing. This became the cornerstone of a culture of peace that has lasted ever since. While violent wars plagued the world, Icelanders became the only nation in the world to never carry weapons.
The Leifr Eiriksson Peace Award is presented to those people around the world who today carry on this culture of peace. The first Leif Eiriksson Peace Award was presented in 2001 to Gabriel Wolff, a young Israeli soldier who was imprisoned for bravely resisting to hold a gun against his fellow citizens.
Leifr Eiriksson Peace Award 2022
In cooperation with the Mirpuri Foundation, the Peace 2000 Institute presented the 2022 Leifr Eiriksson Peace Award at a ceremonial event in Lisbon Portugal on the 8th. July 2022.
Peace President
Peace 2ooo is influencing the presidential elections in Iceland through AstThor Magnusson who will run as a candidate in the elections for the purpose of promoting the ideas of Iceland becoming a neutral place of peace as a host for the United Nations and that the President of Iceland gets a new agenda as an International Ambassador for Peace.
Human Shields
We have sent volunteers to war torn countries to show solidarity with civilians fallen victims of political conflicts they have no part in making. Our Human Shield volunteers have spent time doing humanitarian work on the ground while sleeping and working side by side with civilians under threat of bombardment, risking their lives to send out a strong message to the international community that war is not the way forward Peace 2000 provided campaign coordination in Iceland and promoted the campaign nationally to the general public and to various government officials.
Infomercials against violence on television
Peace 2000 has produced Shooting at Littletoninfomercials made available to television networks to increase awarness of the importance to educate children on media violence. The conclusion of the public health community, based on over 30 years of research, is that viewing entertainment violence can lead to increases in aggressive attitudes, values and behavior, particularly in children,” according a Joint Statement signed by representatives of six public health in July 26, 2000 and presented to US Congress. The Peace 2000 infomercials are intended as an educational warning to be broadcasted immediately prior to the screening of a movie or TV serial containing violence that may be harmful to children.
Humanitarian Work
Peace 2000 has delivered medical supplies, food, clothing and gifts to help innocent victims of war. Our Santa Peaceflight was launched in 1995 with the idea of flying gifts with a message of solidarity, friendship and hope from the children in the west to children in war torn countries. Flights have been made from the UK, Ireland and Iceland carrying gifts with personalized messages from our children to children of a similar age in a war torn country. Collection of gifts and messages has been organized through various channels including schools and other non profit organizations. Distribution in the war torn countries has then been carried out in cooperation with locally based charities including local Red Cross and Red Crescent societies. Our flights have also brought food and medical aid and we have flown ambulance flights with children in need for urgent surgery at well equipped western hospitals. The Santa Peaceflights earned us humanitarian awards from the Gandhi Foundation and the Greek Orthodox Church who awarded Peace 2000 their Holy Gold Cross at the nomination of UNESCO.
Voluntary work
From time to time Peace 2000 will join hands with other non profit organizations in providing volunteers and support where urgently needed.
