World Peace One

infobox music festival
music_festival_name = World Peace One


caption = "Peace Will Win!"
location = flagicon|USLos Angeles, California
years_active =
founders = Doug Ivanovich (Chairman and Executive Producer)
producers = Lawrence Freiberg (Co-Executive Producer)
dates = Summer 2009
genre = Concert
website = http://www.worldpeaceone.com
website = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190896

World Peace One (WP1) is set to be a 30-hour "live" concert event initiated by World Peace One Inc. (WP1 Inc.), a nonprofit organizationbased in Los Angeles, California, United States. The event is designed to increase awareness and activism for world peace, as well as raise funds for humanitarian relief, originating from eight cities worldwide. WP1 is envisioned as the first installment of a Ten Year Global Peace Initiative. The concert is tentatively scheduled to occur in the Summer of 2009.

Concert Overview

WP1 is being organized by a production team known as WP1–WP10 (World Peace One-World Peace Ten) by such people who organized, produced or directed Live Aid through Live Earth. It will be broadcast live from several primary host cities with additional support from secondary host cities. The organizers predict WP1 will reach an audience of roughly 2.5 billion people in more than 190 countries through a global distribution grid that includes television and radio broadcasting networks, Internet and streaming mobile phones. Venue sites will be linked by satellite, enabling each city to view other events simultaneously. These venue-to-venue uplinks will be shown on Jumbotron, Diamond Vision, and screens at Primary and Secondary Host City sites.Fact|date=January 2008 The event will also feature activities related to a comprehensive humanitarian awareness creating solid programs and initutives for peace.

"Give Your Love." Written by Craig Williams, Anna Garcia-Williams and Gavin Christopher the song provides a platform to produce multiple versions in a variety of music genres and languages.

Operating and Financial Overview

World Peace One Inc., is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) charitable organization founded by entertainment executive Doug Ivanovich. Its mission is to fund its programs and initutives as well as public and private charities and foundations, public relations campaigns, and media events promoting global peace. This includes peace initiatives related to education, economics, medical services, music curricula, poverty relief, and technological innovation. Sponsors help pay the production costs incurred by WP1 Inc. during the event. Platinum Sponsors will receive additional benefits resulting from enhanced media exposure.

Management Information

Doug Ivanovich serves as Chairman and Executive Producer (EP) for WP1. His career spans a broad range of financial, executive management, marketing, communications and public relations activities. He served as Senior Production Executive for the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was Associate Producer for the Live Aid International Concert Broadcast which reached two billion people and raised over $125 million for famine relief in Africa. As co-founder and principal of Skylink Satellite Communications, Ivanovich worked with most major and independent film production companies, and cable networks in the U.S., including MCA, Columbia, Paramount, MGM, Disney, Time Warner, Viacom, HBO and CNN. Some of his other credits include, Farm Aid II (North American Broadcast), The Bishop Tutu Benefit, (Wembley Stadium, London – Global Distribution), Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary, (Shea Stadium, New York - Global Distribution), Easter Morning Sunrise Service, (Hollywood Bowl – Global Distribution). Other Executive team members include: Lawrence Freiberg (Co-Executive Producer); and Miklos Wass de Czege (Chief Financial Officer).

The team includes producers and directors from Live Aid through Live Earth...

peakers

A numbers of renowned speakers from around the world will be sought for the event.

*Maya Angelou: American poet, memoirist, actress and an important figure in the American Civil Rights Movement.
*Kofi Annan: Former Sectretary General of the United Nations.
*Óscar Arias: President of Costa Rica. In 1987 he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end civil wars then raging in several Central American countries.
*Michael Beckwith: New Thought minister who founded Agape International Spiritual Center in Culver City, California.
*Deepak Chopra: Indian medical doctor and writer. He has written extensively on spirituality and diverse topics in mind-body medicine.
*Wayne Dyer: popular American self-help advocate, author and lecturer.
*Mikhail Gorbachev: last leader of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until its collapse in 1991.
*Nelson Mandela: former President of South Africa, the first to be elected in fully representative democratic elections.
*Rigoberta Menchú: Guatemalan recipient of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize and Prince of Asturias Award in 1998. Menchú is a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador.
*Claes Nobel, great-grandnephew of Alfred Nobel (confirmed [ [http://worldpeaceone.com/WP12007/cn.html WP1 Website] ] )
*Desmond Tutu: South African cleric and activist who rose to fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, the Albert Schweitzer Prize for Humanitarianism, and the Magubela prize for liberty in 1986.
*Oprah Winfrey: American multiple-Emmy Award winning host of "The Oprah Winfrey Show", the highest-rated talk show in television history.

Host countries

The World Peace One concert is planned to be held in several cities in 12 countries which are:

*flagicon|BrazilRio de Janeiro, Brazil
*flagicon|ColombiaColombia
*flagicon|IndiaMumbai, India
*flagicon|JapanTokyo, Japan
*flagicon|Puerto RicoPuerto Rico
*flagicon|Portugal Lisbon, Portugal [ [http://worldpeaceone.com/WP12007/Portugal.html World Peace One - Portugal ] ]
*flagicon|South AfricaJohannesburg, South Africa
*flagicon|South KoreaSouth Korea
*flagicon|Turkey Istanbul, Turkey [http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003714355 Top Artists Sought For World Peace Concerts ] ]
*flagicon|UKLondon, United Kingdom
*flagicon|UAE UAE [ [http://www.worldpeaceone.com/WP12007/uae.html World Peace One - China ] ]
*flagicon|US Miami, Las Vegas & Los Angeles, United States [ [http://dn.sapo.pt/2008/02/22/artes/lisboa_recebe_maio_concerto_pela_paz.html DN Online: Lisboa recebe em Maio concerto pela paz ] ] ,

Notes

References

* [http://www.nykconcerts.com/index2.html NYK Concerts Website]