The World March will begin in New Zealand on October 2, 2009, the anniversary of Gandhi’s birth, declared the “International Day of Non-Violence” by the United Nations. It will conclude in the Andes Mountains (Punta de Vacas, Aconcagua, Argentina) on January 2, 2010. The March will last 90 days, three long months of travel. It will pass through all climates and seasons, from the hot summer of the tropics and the deserts, to the winter of Siberia. The stages will be the longest American and Asian, both almost a month. A permanent base of a hundred people of different nationalities will complete the journey.

In every city the March visits, local individuals and groups will organize forums, meetings, festivals, conferences, and events (sports, cultural, social, musical, artistic, educational, etc., depending on their own creative initiative.

At this time hundreds of projects have already been set in motion by different individuals and organizations.

MANIFESTO FOR A WORLD WITHOUT WARS

WARS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PRESENT IN HISTORY

BUT TODAY THE NUCLEAR THREAT PUTS HUMANITY AT THE EDGE OF AN ABYSS

In the history of humanity wars have always been present, but the forms they took and the types of suffering they imposed on the populations varied markedly. The first conflicts were sometimes solved in combats between chiefs of clans or tribes, minimizing in this way the number of deaths. At other times the victims in the battle fields were mercenaries of armies to whom kings and noblemen paid the "soldada" for their services. Today, the battle fronts extend to the civilian populations that become their direct and involuntary scenarios in which an army attacks a destitute and defenceless population and by virtue of such an attack their dead become the political weapon of those who "direct" the conflict from another scenario in which they declare war or sign agreements of peace or surrender.