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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`s 66th Global Voyage for Peace, departing on April 23 2009, will travel through Asia and the Indian Ocean, before heading through Northern Europe and returning to Japan on August 6 via Central and Northern America.
This voyage will feature Peace Boat's first extensive visit to Scandinavia, including the first time ports of Stockholm and Helsinki. Sustainability will be the keyword of this voyage, with on board and in port programmes focusing on various related themes.
Learning about northern European welfare and education systems will provide an opportunity to reconsider the true meaning of a “rich” society – going beyond economic wealth and efficiency, and instead focusing on the wellbeing of humans and the environment alike. Examples of natural conservation and environmentally-friendly economic policies around the world will be explored, as participants on this journey reconsider how to make our lifestyles and policies truly sustainable. >>Read More |
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Peace Boat's 67th Global Peace Voyage will sail from Yokohama on August 8, 2009 and return on 22 November, 2009. |
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Peace Boat’s 68th Global Peace Voyage will sail from Yokohama on November 25, 2009 and return on March 10, 2010. |
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Peace Boat’s 69th Global Peace Voyage will sail from Yokohama on April
2, 2010 and return on July 17, 2010. |
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| Spanning over 25 years and incorporating 64 Peace Voyages as of January
2009, 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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| Peace Boat organizes its voyages on chartered passenger ships, adapting
the onboard spaces to provide a unique and dynamic environment for its
participants. Currently Peace Boat is chartering the MS Clipper Pacific
and MV Mona Lisa 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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