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Peace Boat carries out its main
activities through a chartered passenger ship that travels
the world on peace voyages. Three Global Voyages and one short
Asian regional voyage are usually organized each year. The
three-month Global Voyages are each joined by around 800 participants
and visit between 15-20 countries.
The ship, as a neutral space beyond borders, becomes a floating
peace village, encouraging a sense of community and enabling
direct dialogue between those onboard and in the ports that
we visit.
Our programmes, both onboard and in port, explore the main
aspects of Peace Boat activity – peace, human rights,
sustainability and respect for the environment – and
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Peace Boat will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2008 and mark the occasion with the first ever Peace Boat visits to Iceland and Greenland.
Sailing in the Norwegian Fjords, Alaska and Greenland, Peace Boat will explore the icy ecosystems threatened by global warming and tackle the economic, political and environmental issues involved in our onboard education programs, while learning from the progressive alternative-energy policies of Iceland.
Other programs will examine the position of indigenous peoples in Greenland, Central America and Canada; the issues of human rights and immigrants in Western Europe, and the Arab-American experience in New York City. A further highlight will be the call to Venezuela, where numerous exchange and study programs with students and community groups will offer the opportunity to examine Chavez’s “Bolivarian Revolution” firsthand.
Please visit the 62nd Voyage page regularly to read updated reports
about activities onboard and in ports of call. >>Read More |
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Peace Boat's 63rd Global Peace Voyage will sail from Yokohama on August
28, 2008 and return on December 8, 2008.
NEW! Short programmes now available on the 63rd voyage |
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Peace Boat's 64th Global Peace Voyage will sail from Yokohama on December 11, 2008 and return on March 26, 2009. |
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| Spanning over 25 years and incorporating 60 Peace Voyages as of January, 2008, Peace Boat has travelled to more than 100 ports in over 80 countries. In this section, see the itinerary for each voyage Peace Boat has organized, from our first three-week educational voyage around Asia in 1983 to our most recent Global Peace Voyage. Detailed reports for each voyage from 2001 are available. >>Read More |
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organizes its voyages on chartered passenger ships, adapting
the onboard spaces to provide a unique and dynamic environment
for its participants. Since June 2003, Peace Boat has been
chartering TSS The Topaz for its global voyages. >>read more |
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Onboard each voyage, with the participation
of around 50 guest educators from across the globe, Peace
Boat organizes a range of educational activities, including
peace education workshops and lectures, language classes
and cultural programmes. The themes of these activities link
Peace Boat’s fields of work with contemporary issues
in the countries we visit. Additionally, all participants
onboard are encouraged to contribute to programmes, resulting
in a daily schedule of more than 100 events and activities,
from expert lectures on global issues to salsa dance classes,
from Arabic conversation lessons to music festivals, from
documentary movie screenings to soccer games on deck. Through
utilizing the spaces onboard the ship, and harnessing the
talents of all guests, participants and staff onboard, Peace
Boat creates a special environment in which people can live,
learn and undertake positive action together. >>Read
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