Peace Boat welcomes 2008 with a 108-day voyage from January 12, 2008 to April 28, 2008. The voyage is Peace Boat’s first full southern-hemisphere voyage in two years.

Peace Boat's education and advocacy programs will focus squarely on the issues of global climate change and the north-south divide, and action and education for environmentally sustainable development. Efforts will begin long before the 60th voyage departs, with Peace Boat encouraging participants to make concrete changes in daily energy and resource use. Driving home the reality of climate change and unsustainable development are visits to Mombasa, Rio de Janeiro, passage through the waters of Antarctica, Papeete and Sydney among others, where vigorous educational programs will bring participants face-to-face with local manifestations of these global problems and the struggle to find solutions and effect positive change.

Other programs will examine and experience development and post-apartheid reconciliation in Africa, the Latin American alternative to neo-liberalism in South America, the struggle against European nuclear weapons and colonialism, while rebuilding traditional community in Tahiti, and the legacy of the Second World War as it remains today in Papua New Guinea.