The history of the annual World Summits of Nobel Peace Laureates dates back to 1999, the year marking the first Summit held in Rome at the initiative of the Gorbachev Foundation, an international NGO found by the former leader of the USSR. Since then, the Summits have gained an importance as a venue for exchanging opinions and as an event promoting international peace campaigns and initiatives and well as developing concrete proposals to tackle the planet’s emergencies for a world without violence.
Each year the Summits are attended by Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and prominent global figures, who are active in the social, scientific, political and cultural areas.
Extreme poverty experienced by a portion of the global population, problems with managing water resources, the role of ethics in politics and economic undertakings, cross-cultural integration of people
– these are only a few examples of the topics debated during the Summits.
Official summit Program