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World Peace Award Conferences

WELCOME TO
World Peace Award
STOCKHOLM, 
SWEDEN
May 24-28 2025

Information about our upcoming program

World Peace Award

Conference and a culture festival 

- Peace within us will lead to peace between us -

Theme: How to create a culture of peace

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Schedule World Peace Award Conference VI

Saturday May 24th to Wednesday 28th 2025 

Stockholm, Sweden

Welcome to the 6th World Peace Award Conference

This year, we are again celebrating human fellowship and the search for peace. We invite everyone concerned about peace and human development. Today the world is facing many challenges. Despite our different interests and perspectives, solutions can only come when humans work together. For this, we need to share a common perspective and interests. We believe that central to this is the search for universally shared values. Your participation could contribute to this prospect.

 

We like to invite anyone and everyone regardless of their own political, social or religious views. If you are working in a field as an educator, researcher, human rights activist, religious organisation or an artist concerned about empowering people and wanting to strengthen democracy by countering violence and hatred, you are welcome to share your vision and learn from others. This is a great opportunity to network and give hope to people by sharing your experiences and knowledge. 

 

This year’s theme: Peace, Civil Society and the Environment

Peace is something which concerns us all. We would like to emphasize that is more than a political agenda, it’s a human agenda. We believe that peace has to begin to understand each other and willingness to learn from each other.

We would like to touch on three areas regarding the concept of peace and how to understand the UN Declaration of Culture of Peace. Also, we like to talk about the importance and responsibility of civil society to contribute to peace. This includes religion, youth, and social- as well as cultural groups that have an important role in contributing to human and society's development. The environment and climate are of great concern for us and affect us all. To save the planet humanity has also to work together and share the burden in solidarity with each other. But the environment also is something we humans together create within

our society. The concept of peace has many features involving all aspects of human lives. 

 

The importance of universally shared values

World Peace concerns all aspects of life. Even though the world is more integrated, there is also growing mistrust and division. Religion which has been the driving force in all civilizations has been increasingly marginalized in the modern world and accused of causing conflicts and wars. With or without religion, however, the conflicts continue. Within the political world, there is more polarization, increasing social confrontation, and growing nationalism.

 

The challenge is how to find a model for peace which transcends all religious, political, social, and national interests. Such a model can be found in the recognition of universally shared values. Through this religious people can engage in a new level of dialogue. Politicians can be guided by a higher level of responsibility. Social activists who seek to empower people, will not only oppose what is wrong but strive for constructive solutions. A healthy society is after all the ability to work together based on mutual trust and care. Indispensable to our national, ethnic, and religious identities we can retain our own unique characteristics and also recognize that we are part of one human family. For such dialogue to be successful we need to recognize the values that we all share. This is the focus of the conference: to explore universally shared values and how they can contribute to a world of peace and provide hope for the future of humankind.

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Some of the participants from 2024

Schedule May 24th - 28 th

Day 1. Saturday, May 24th 

15.00 – 18.00            World Peace through Community building 

Lecturers present their topics on how to understand peace and promote peaceful relationships regarding mind-body, family and gender, as well as building relationships between different cultures. The art and culture role to promote peace.

 

Day 2.  Sunday, May 25th

STOCKHOLM CONCERT HALL

Grünewaldssalen

 

12.00 – 14.00            Interfaith

Religious leaders share 

 

14.00 – 15.00            Break/Paus  

 

15.00 – 17.00 (3 -5 pm) World Peace Award event  

STOCKHOLM CONCERT HALL,  

Day 3. Monday, May 26th

16.00 (4 pm CET) Arrival at the terminal for Cruise to Helsinki, Finland

Please arrive at the terminal at 16.30 (4.30 pm CET). 

You will get your tickets at the terminal as part of the WPA group booking.

17.30          Boat   departs from Silja Line terminal at Värtahamnen  (Hamnpirsvägen 10) Stockholm

 

Day 4. Monday May 27th

10.45 am Arrival Tallinn/D-terminal (10.30 EET)

11.00 – 15.30 City Tour Tallin,, Estonia and Free Time.

18.00   Cruise departure from Tallinn/D-terminal to Stockholm

Please arrive at the terminal at latest 17.30 (5.30 pm EET)

 

Day 5.  Tuesday May 28th

10.30 (10 am CET) Cruise arrives at Stockholm Silja Line terminal

Conference over. Participants schedule their own return from 1 pm CET.

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Session 1.

How we can promote a culture of peace

The voice for peace be strengthened!

How a culture of peace agenda can address the need for peace and reconciliation.

There is a need to define a common agenda for peace and security.

Understand how a peace agenda can affect all aspects of life, politically, socially, and spiritually.

What to learn from the causes of conflict and how to resolve them in a way that can guide each one of us.

An agenda for the spiritual and the physical. A deeper understanding has arrived that the causes of conflict are rooted in distrust and a disconnect regarding values and cultural identity. How can a spiritual outlook possibly help to address that?

Session 2.

How the religious community can give a voice for peace.

Religious leaders share their insights and perspectives on peace.

Religion has historically had a position to reinforce good values and human cooperation and understanding. The concept of secularism has often led to the religious voice as experiences have become marginalised in society. Thus, it is often regarded as something exclusive and only of private concern. Academic theories with a materialist bias have come to play a larger role in identifying human nature and social values. However, if the religious community could find a common value base, it could then be able to offer more inclusive values that could contribute to a stronger peace agenda within society.

The topic of the nature of values has often come to play an important but also polarizing role. The question is for the religious community in what way. What are those values, how can we understand them, and what role do the religious representatives and communities have in promoting them?

 

Suggested topics.

  1. What are the most important values of your religion?

  2. How is peace involved in the religious teachings?

  3. How can religious faith strengthen civil society?

  4. What aspect of religious teaching would be significant to include on the agenda of creating a culture of peace?

The program is under review. Suggestions are welcome. 
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Welcome to share your ideas and vision to promote a more peaceful world that can trascend politcal and social conflicts.

World Peace Award
A festival with culture and fellowship

By cruise visiting other countries

Caroline Williams and Blues Band, Stockholm City hall

Greeting from the founder of World Peace Award

Phramaha Boonthin Taosiri (Phra Wites Punyaporn)

President of Chulalongkorn Buddhist Meditation Centre

Citat Booonthin.tiff

Chairman of the WPA committee
Pramathinboonthin

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