Founded in 1976 at the height of Northern Ireland's
Troubles, the Peace People today continue to promote
the distinctive vision of nonviolence through peace education
amongst young people. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, co-founder, and
Nobel Peace Laureate, at the invitation of Pierre and
Dipti Marchand, helped in the organisation of an Appeal to
the United Nations to Declare the decade 2001-2010 to be
for the Culture of Peace and nonviolence for the children
of the World. She travelled extensively to lobby successfully
for the proclamation by the United Nations this International
Decade for the Culture of Peace and Nonviolence (2001-2010)
for the children of the world. This Declaration by the United
Nations, mirrors the Peace Peoples own Declaration, with its
implicit vision and commitment to nonviolence. The Manifesto
Commitment 2000, was also distributed by United Nations
to all the countries in the World. The Peace People have
collected many of these to be forwarded to United Nations to
add to the 30 million already collected around the world.
Both the Declaration of the Peace People and the Manifesto
2000 are given here.
The Peace People