 Logo, 2012 | |
| Formation | 2007 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Rajani Kannepalli Kanth |
The World Peace Congress, founded by Professor Rajani Kannepalli Kanth in 2007, is a non-governmental organization dedicated to constructing an institutional basis for world peace, unmediated by state, government or politics.
The Congress holds conferences and dialogues, regularly, attended by people with various backgrounds. These dialogues produced resolutions adopted initially at the first Congress in Salt Lake City, to ultimately achieve the goal of the Congress - to renounce war as a means of social and political policy.
Later on, the World Peace Congress asked the United Nations to declare war as illegal by sending the Renunciation of War Resolution, resolutions adopted at the third World Peace Thai Congress in 2010, to UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, requesting him to ask all Heads of States of the UN to adopt the resolutions by suitably amending their individual Constitutions, or by enacting a special law by their legislatures.[1][2]
Since its foundation, the World Peace Congress has a wide range of participants, including Martin Almada, Shabana Azmi, A. Balasubramaniam, Roy Bhaskar, Oliver DeMille, Robert Jensen, Yinhe Li, Rajiv Malhotra, Ruth Manorama, N. Radhakrishnan,[3] Sulak Sivaraksa, Tenzin Tethong, and John Zerzan.[4]
- ^ "Declare war as illegal: World Peace Congress asks UN". Yahoo! India News. July 13, 2010.
- ^ "The Congress of Planetary Initiatives: Aims& Objectives". The World Peace Congress. Retrieved 17 July 2012.
- ^ "world peace congress 2008" (PDF). The World Peace Congress. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
- ^ "The Congress of Planetary Initiatives". World Peace Congress. Retrieved 28 July 2012.