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Board of Advisors
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Nobel Peace Laureate
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Nobel Peace Laureate
President Mikhail Gorbachev
Nobel Peace Laureate
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Nobel Peace Laureate
President Lech Walesa
Nobel Peace Laureate
Elie Weisel
Nobel Peace Laureate
Jose Ramos-Horta
Nobel Peace Laureate
Jody Williams
Nobel Peace Laureate
Rigoberta Menchu Tum
Nobel Peace Laureate
Adolpho Perez Esquivel
Nobel Peace Laureate
Mrs & Doctor Daisaku Ikeda,
Soka Gakkai International
Lady Fiona Montagu of Beaulieu
Club of Budapest
Madame Mariapia Fanfani
President and Founder,
Together for Peace Foundation |
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World Centers of Compassion for
Children Italia Onlus
was constituted in July 2004 as
the Italian “branch” of World Centers of Compassion for
Children International.
Its
headquarters are in Rome. The president is Laura
Kiss, representative of Betty Williams in Italy since
1998 and, journalist of La Repubblica daily national
newspaper. Members, among others, are Liliana
Ferraro, Enzo Cursio, Betty Williams and Rusti
Findley.
The non-profit
association, became an Onlus in March of 2007.
Wccc-Italy is the
prime promotor of the
“City of Peace for Children”
project in Basilicata, Italy.
It creates links
between institutions and the private industrial sector
to find sponsor partners for the project.
It organizes
courses of “Education to the Peace” - the second edition
of which will take place in Basilicata in June 2007.
It organizes the
world summit Mothers of
the Earth for World Peace.
The second edition of which, is foreseen to be held in
Matera in October 2007.
It organizes fund
raising campaigns in support of projects such as
“Wine
for Peace” in collaboration with the "Association of
Wine Cities". In spring it will start the
"Betty's
Angels" campaign in the schools of severel Italian
regions.
Moreover, it
organizes the visits and the conferences of Betty Williams
in Italy. |
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Board of Advisors
Giovanni Bianchi -
Presidential Bureau
Chamber of Deputies,
Italy
Dr. Deepak Chopra, Founder,
Chopra Foundation
Robert Muller
Former Under-Secretary,
United Nations
Dr. Nina Kostina
President and Founder,
Frank Foundation
Child Assistance International
Camelia Anwar Sadat
The Sadat Peace Foundation
Avon Mattison
President, Pathways to Peace
Ervin Laszlo
President, Club of Budapest
Uwe Morawetz, Director,
International Peace University
Jean Houston
Author and Lecturer
Hazel Henderson
Author, Economist, Futurist
Scott Ritter, Specialist,
Non-proliferation & Disarmament
Rajmohan Gandhi,
Director
Center for Dialogue and Reconciliation |