World March for Peace and Nonviolence

The World March for Peace and Nonviolence is an initiative of world without war, an international organization working since 1995 for pacifism and nonviolence.

The project of the World March was launched in early 2008 and by hundreds of organizations and personalities from the arts, music, politics, literature, sport, etc. supported.

Among the most prominent supporters were the Nobel Peace Prize winner José Ramos- Horta, the 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatsho, Desmond Tutu, Jimmy Carter, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Mairead Corrigan and Rigoberta Menchú, the writer Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano, Isabel Allende and Jean Ziegler, the musician Lou Reed, Juanes, Bryan Adams, Ornette Coleman, Yoko Ono, and Noah, Konstantin Wecker and Andreas Vollenweider, the conductors Daniel Barenboim and Zubin Mehta, the actor Viggo Mortensen, Penelope Cruz and Julie Christie, Queen Rania of Jordan, presidents of Chile, Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay, Bolivia, East Timor, as well as Croatia and many more.

The march began on 2 October 2009 at which jährte the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, in New Zealand, Wellington. Within three months of the peace march in 400 cities on five continents, including on 6 and 7 November 2009 passed the German capital Berlin. The march ended on the evening of January 2, 2010 at the foot of over 6900 meters high Mount Aconcagua in the Argentine Andes. At the final rally of 15,000 people from all over the world took part. The march intended to create an awareness of non-violence worldwide. Specific demands of the march were " total nuclear disarmament, an end to all wars, a withdrawal of all troops from occupied territories as well as overcoming all forms of violence ".