The World Organization for Peace (WOFP), known in Spanish as Organización Mundial por la Paz (OMPP), is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting peaceful dialogue, tolerance and a culture of peace.
History
The organization began to take shape in 1990, under the name Organization for Peace, as a humanitarian programme driven by people who contributed voluntarily to a work for peace. Between 1991 and 1999 it developed its first programmes: books with peace messages from the heads of state of United Nations member countries, more than a hundred interfaith meetings, and mediation in favour of understanding between peoples.
Since 2000 it has used its current name in several languages: Organización Mundial por la Paz, Organisation Mondiale pour la Paix, Organizzazione Mondiale per la Pace and World Organization for Peace. Its founding charter was signed on 6 August 2005 in Geneva, Switzerland, next to the Peace Bell, and it was registered in the Canton of Geneva in February 2006.
Programmes
- Messages of Peace to the World: books gathering peace messages from the 192 heads of state of UN member countries (Messages of Peace for the New Millennium, opened by Secretary-General Kofi A. Annan) and from the world’s 207 football federations (Football and Peace in the World).
- Sport and Peace: OMPP’s sports body.
- International Medical Committee: the organization’s medical branch.
- Universities for Peace, World Cities of Peace, Humanitarian Help and reforestation programmes, among others.
International presence
OMPP has secretaries general and delegates in 185 nations. Its headquarters are in London, its General Secretariat in Rome and the Office of the Presidency in Madrid.
Officers: President, Carlos A. Peralta; Vice-President, Daniel Gillieron.
This website
OMPP News is the official news portal of the World Organization for Peace. It brings together its statements, press releases, reports, documents and videos, in Spanish and English. The organization’s institutional website is ompp.org.