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9th WORLD SUMMIT OF NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES

9th WORLD SUMMIT OF NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES
Paris – 11-13 December, 2008
“Human rights and a World without violence”

Today, as last year, when Nobel Peace Laureates called public attention to the young generation and nonviolence at the 8th Summit, it is of utmost importance to turn our eyes to the problems of Human Rights. Without such rights violence, poverty, lack of resources will thrive and will impede us to ensure a future of a long-lasting peace throughout the planet Earth.

In the 9th Summit’s sessions it is proposed to touch upon the following questions: how can we build peace through the safeguard of human rights, what are the strategies to affirm the universalism of the fundamental rights, how to ensure the defense of individual rights in today’s world, how to foster the establishment of the democratic values worldwide and finally, how to make rights concrete by eliminating social and financial inequalities among people in our societies.

This Summit will represent an opportunity for the Nobel Peace Laureates to elaborate strategies of international policies, which shall be implemented to ensure a real observance of the principles, reflected in the Declaration.

Participants and Guests

Mikhail Gorbachev, Frederik Willem De Klerk, Lech Walesa, John Hume, Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Betty Williams, United Nations (UN), Department of Peacekeeping operations (UN), The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), International Peace Bureau (IPB), American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), Pugwash Conferences (PUGWASH), International Movement of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC), International Labour Organization (ILO), International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Walter Veltroni, Ingrid Betancourt, Sein Win (Prime Minister of Burma’s Government in exile), Kerry Kennedy (President of the Foundation of Robert F. Kennedy for Europe), Koïchiro Matsuura (General Director, UNESCO), Agazio Loiero (President of Calabria Region), Alexander Likhotal (President of Green Cross International), Luis-Alberto Cordero (President of Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress), David Steward (President of Frederik Willem De Klerk Foundation), Piotr Gulczynski (President of Lech Walesa Foundation), David Ives (Executive Director of Albert Schweitzer Institute), Gensei Ito (ASCA), Johan Galtung, Lourdes Portillo, Michael Collopy (Architects of Peace), Jonathan Granoff (President of Global Security Institute), Kevin Bales (Free the Slaves), Adrienne Germain (International Women's Health Coalition), Jahan Rounaq (Columbia University), Brita Schmidt (Women for Women International), Glenda Paige (Center for Global Nonviolence), Catarina Albouquerque (Independent Expert on human rights obligations related to safe drinking water and sanitation, Human Rights Council).