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MasterPeace is a global grass root peace movement currently in 47 countries
www.masterpeace.org

 

Mission

Creating Peace.Together.

 

Overview

MasterPeace is a global grassroots movement that inspires everyone to use their talent and energy for peace building and togetherness. Through music, sports, arts and dialogue, MasterPeace will help lead the way to a more sustainable world with less armed conflict.

MasterPeace focuses on mobilizing talents for peacebuilding. The world has seven billion inhabitants. We view them as seven billion s... See More

 

Description

‘Creating peace. Together.’

This is our objective. The campaign was officially launched in Cairo Egypt as well as Utrecht, Netherlands, the city of the " Utrecht Peace Treaty" under the motto ‘Creating Peace. Together’ on the International Day of Peace (21 September) in 2011.

From that moment on, three years of positive actions, web activities, community initiatives, art projects in conflict areas, and beyond have been developed! All these activities happening globally will evolve towards a very special apotheosis 'MasterPeace in Concert' MiC, which will occur on the International Day of Peace in 2014. 

In this event, most important artists of the countries and regions currently in conflict with each other - the 'Bonos of conflict areas' - are to perform there together. To open up fists and hearts. To celebrate unity and international cooperation. And to give peace workers new courage, whether they are on site or via the live broadcast. 

You cannot buy a ticket to be there. You can earn a ticket by working concretely towards peace in the period up to 2014. In that year, 20.14, we will have mobilised 20 million people worldwide to 'embrace’ the 14 main conflicts. And that mobilisation and commitment starts NOW.

 

General Information

The number of wars and tensions between ‘east’ and ‘west’ are rising, just like the expenditures on weaponry, and yet there is not yet a one positive, attractive and grass-roots movement for peace.

Both Ilco van der Linde (Netherlands) and Mohamed Helmy (Egypt) founders of MasterPeace worked together successfully in a global HIV/AIDS education project, in which Ilco was the International CEO and Mohamed the director for Egypt.

With years of extensive expertise in mobilizing millions around the world in social change projects (including the largest thematic youth project of Europe involving 1 million visitors: The Liberation Festivals in Holland), both MasterPeace founders had envisioned an east-west grassroots movement whereby millions of people would be inspired to take actions for peacebuilding.

2009. This ambitious couple had the dream of creating a global movement of peace-builders. Within ten years they aim to inspire millions of people using their talent and energy to fuel ‘3D’: Dialogue, Development, Disarmament. They called their journey MasterPeace. Day by day artists, social entrepreneurs and companies jumped on board and the dream became reality in over 30 countries with grassroots initiatives run by thousands of volunteers.

Within 3 years we have reached our current status with a Central Office in Cairo (Egypt), European office in Utrecht (Netherlands), MasterPeace Clubs in over 40 countries, 300,000 fans on Facebook, a board with experts from 4 continents, a campaigning team (containing global top marketers), 5 Founding Partners (Corio, vfonds, PAX, Triodos Foundation, Cordaid), a structural donor (Dutch National Postcode Lottery), 37 Collaborative Partners (including the UNAOC, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations), 16 media partners (including the UNDPI, UN Department of Information and Tribe of Noise with 22,000 artists) and some first business partners (incl. KPMG for the auditing).

 

 

 

Awards

Dec. 2013 MasterPeace was awarded the 'United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA') award for 'innovation in peace building' for being one of the fastest growing peace movement in the world, presented by the UN general secretary Ban Ki Moon, 

2013, MasterPeace founders were named by the Rockefeller Foundation to the among its list of 'Top 100 Innovators of Next Centuries ’.

The Big Improvement Day (Europe’s largest business event) awarded MasterPeace as ‘Most Innovative Idea’ for 2012

 

If you want to know more about our projects please click here

 

Contact Info

Email: press@masterpeace.org

Website: http://www.masterpeace.org
 

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