International Salon for Peace Initiatives

The International Salon for Peace Initiatives is organized in the framework of the International Decade for the Promotion of a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World (2001–2010) declared by the United Nations in 1998. Organized by the French Coalition for the Decade, it has been taken place in Paris every two years since 2004.
This Salon hosts the International Conference on the Culture of Peace and Non-Violence, organized by the French Coalition for the Decade in collaboration with the International Coalition for the Decade. This Conference create a space for thinking and meeting for all those involved in this field, in France, Europe and all over the world.
The 2d International Salon for Peace Initiatives has taken place in Paris on 2–4 June 2006, in the Centre des Congrès de la Villette, in the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (Paris).
The second international Salon for Peace Initiatives was held under the auspices of the UNESCO the French Foreign Office and the City of Paris, in partnership with the Secours catholique-Caritas France, the CCFD, Non-violence XXI, Partage, Le Monde, La Vie, Télérama, RFI and TV5 and with the support of Pax Christi France.
This Salon has helped a wide public get familiar with the culture of peace and non-violence. 168 French and international exhibitors were presenting their peace and non-violence initiatives on 116 booths. They have proposed 40 interactive workshops and other activities with 13,000 participants.
This Salon has hosted the International Conference "Actors for a Culture of Peace and Non-violence".
Seven round tables and sixty workshops helped the participants to discover the different aspects of the culture of peace and non-violence. Among the speakers were:
Hundreds organizations came from all over the world to participate to this conference.
The 3rd International Salon for Peace Initiatives will take place in Paris on 30 May – 1 June 2008, in the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie. It will help a wide public to get familiar with the culture of peace and non-violence. Around 200 French and international exhibitors will present their peace and non-violence initiatives and several activities will be proposed, included 40 interactive workshops, films and exhibitions.
The third international Salon for Peace Initiatives will be held under the auspices of the UN, the UNESCO, the UNRIC, the French Commission for UNESCO, the French Foreign Office, the Regional council of Ile-de-France and the City of Paris, in partnership with the Secours catholique- Réseau mondial Caritas, Non-violence XXI, Partage, Le Monde, La Vie and RFI, and also with the support of Pax Christi France and the Secours islamique.
Several organizations will be partners of this Salon in order to enrich the culture of peace and non-violence and to highlight its numerous dimensions: justice, non-violent resolution of conflicts, mediation, human rights defense, environmental respect and development, disarmament, gender equality, international solidarity etc.
This Salon will host the International Conference "Actor for a Culture of Peace and Nonviolence", organized by the French Coalition for the Decade in collaboration with the International Coalition for the Decade. This Conference will create a space for thinking and meeting for all those involved in this field, in France and all over the world.
Six round tables and sixty workshops will allow for the encounter and the debate among several scientific disciplines (sociology, psychology and pedagogy) and several citizen practices (associative, political) from the whole world. They will take into account the death anniversary of two major figures of non-violence: M. K. Gandhi (1948) and Martin Luther King Jr. (1968).
Speakers of this International Conference will be: