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The Society of Founders of the International Peace University (FGF) - General Overview

Contact Addresses and further Information:

Society of Founders of the International Peace University, Akazienstraße 27,
D-10823 Berlin, Phone (0049-30) 782-4610, Fax 782-6308

International Peace College Vienna, Seilerstätte 18-20, A-1010 Wien
Phone (0043-1) 512 5451, Fax 512 5650

International Peace College Switzerland, P.0. Box 3370, CH-8021 Zurich
Phone (0041-1) 870-2770, Fax 870-2771

E-Mail: info@friedensuniversitaet.net

Founded: December 1, 1991

Organizational Form: Officially recognized non-profit, non-governmental organization

Orientation: Ideologically, politically, and religiously independent

Patrons:
The seventeen Nobel Peace Prize Laureates: Oscar Arias, Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo, Norman Borlaug, Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, The XIV.  Dalai Lama, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Frederik De Klerk, Nelson Mandela, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Shimon Peres, José Ramos-Horta, Joseph Rotblat, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Betty Williams, Jody Williams, International Peace Bureau Geneva

International Board of Directors Trustees and Advisors: 
Michael von Brück, Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Valentin Falin, Johan Galtung, Jochen Gerz, Ivan Havel, Ismael Ivo, Ervin Laszlo, Lord Menuhin, Uwe Morawetz (Chairman), Ilya Prigogine, Luise Rinser, Marie-Luise Schwarz-Schilling, Helm Stierlin, Liv Ullmann, Francisco Varela, Simon Wiesenthal, among others

Purpose and Goals:
1. The Peace University helps to resolve conflicts through preventive diplomacy and global research. It promotes international co-operation through dialogue and interaction among a wide diversity of actors encompassing politics, economics, culture, religion, the sciences, and the media.

2.  The Peace University initiates and fosters international networks of private individuals, local communities, non-profit organizations, governments and businesses to achieve harmonious co-existence among peoples of diverse cultures and value systems through alternatives to conventional approaches and untraditional forms.

3.  The Peace University provides continued education and schooling in creativity, accessible to all people.  It offers orientation as well as academic and practical guidance for students and beginning professionals, stressing a conception of achievement that corresponds to individual talents and abilities and combines these with meaningful experience to take an active and responsible role in the world as a participant, not as a bystander.  The Peace University strives to develop transdisciplinary approaches and research programs that can be integrated into innovative careers that meet the requirements and demands of today’s world.

Activities to Date:
The Society of Founders of the International Peace University has offered more than 600 courses and events with a total of 250 speakers in the fields of education and academics, culture, art, creativity, medicine and health, personal and spiritual development, environment and ecology, science and future studies, politics, religion, social questions, and the economy.

Current Course Themes:
Education Towards Tolerance, Peace Journalism, Evolution of Consciousness, Basis for Inner and Outer Peace, Interfaith Dialogue, Cultures of Collaboration, Vision of Europe - Strategies for Change, Perspectives of Work.

Registered Seat of Organization: Potsdam

International Office Headquarter: Berlin

Future United States Campus:
The ArtShip, a former warship from the 2nd World War with a capacity for up to 1,500 people which will be transformed into a peace and multicultural center with class-rooms, studios, a theatre and cabins for students to permanently live on the ship based in Oakland, California.

Future European Campus:
The Abbaye de La Grasse, a former benedictine monastery founded by Charles the Great in 798 located in the South of France.

Branches: Brussels, Budapest, Prague, Vienna and Zurich

Membership: 850 people from 45 countries

Financing:
Membership fees and tax-deductible donations from private individuals, businesses, foundations, and the European Commission.