Global Youth Peace Summit

History

The Global Youth Peace Summit, which marks the beginning of the year-long One Village Project, started out as a grassroots, four-day project with 30 youth and 20 volunteers in 2007 and has now grown into an internationally recognized program hosting 70+ youth from over 25 different countries that is supported by 125+ volunteers and dozens of local businesses. While most of the refugee and immigrant youth we serve now live in Austin, each year, international delegates from countries like Colombia, Uganda, India, Nigeria, Israel and Palestine travel to the U.S. for the first time to be a part of the Global Youth Peace Summit and return home as Peace Leaders sharing the message of unity and compassion with the people of their country.

Specialties

The 6th Annual Global Youth Peace Summit (August 12th - 19th, 2012) will unite local, national, refugee, immigrant and international youth (ages 13-18) for an eight-day peace summit devoted to heart-centered dialogue, compassionate service, cultural awareness, authentic expression and exploration of self and world. Bringing together 70 youth from over 25 different countries, the Summit is a sustainable peace movement where cultural, religious and personal differences are respected and celebrated and our humanity is acknowledged as the thread that unites us all. The Summit is a vehicle for healing, personal growth, connection and real change in the world. It offers young people, sometimes for the first time in their lives, a direct experience of what it means to live in unity and peace.