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THE WORLD ALLIANCE FOR PEACE is
a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to
transforming our world into a safer place where
people dwell together in compassion for one another
and seek non-violent solutions to their disputes;
Learning from the past, working together in the
present for a brighter future. Never has the need
been greater with the present wars and ethnic
hatreds.
Through its PROGRESS FOR PEACE
CAMPAIGN, the WORLD ALLIANCE has stimulated "PEACE
BREAKTHROUGHS" that can inspire world leaders to
sit down and make progress at peace tables
everywhere. Through education, especially with
children, we can transform people into more
peaceful beings and through inspired projects, make
adults into peacemakers. Originally inspired by
"THE PEACE SONG" (Let there be Peace on Earth, and
let it begin with me) written by Jill Jackson
Miller some thirty years ago, a song so popular it
has been sung around the world even in communist
countries, the late philanthropist MICHAEL P. GRACE
formed a steering committee to try and develop an
outreach group to encourage progress for peace
throughout the world. The WORLD ALLIANCE FOR PEACE
emerged from that steering committee, with Michael
P. Grace as Chairman and Founder, and Bishop John
M. Stanley as President. Jill Jackson Miller became
their first Advisor.
Bishop
John M. Stanley, a
Vice-President Of "THE WORLD FELLOWSHIP OF
RELIGIONS", which represents two billion peace
loving people of all faiths, has held a lifelong
vision that the dreams of peace could come true in
our time. He brought youth leaders in Sri Lanka
from both communist and right wing groups to sit
down together and discuss goals, where they learned
the value of peace talks, and were able to make
peace in their villages. He was also a recipient of
the Jerusalem III Conference Peace Award, and a
Gold Angel International Peace award.
The World Alliance for Peace is
currently working with Native American groups to
help establish the Native American Peace Studies
Center in the Pacific Northwest. They are working
in conjunction with the Native American Student
Union at Clark College.
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WORLD
ALLIANCE FOR
PEACE
