MasterPeace

Ilco is founder of MasterPeace, a new global peace initiative, "Creating Peace. Together." MasterPeace aims to provide a mesmerizing Peace Concert on International Peace Day (21 September) in 2014, in Cairo, Egypt. Tickets for the concert will not be on sale; those who wish to attend have to “deserve” them, by actually doing something for peace. Action must be taken between the official launch of MasterPeace on Peace Day 2011 and Peace Day 2014. Because peace-building is a verb.

www.masterpeace.org will provide many appealing opportunities for peacebuilding from Peace Day 2011 onwards. From small community and reconciliation projects up to ground breaking digital and artistic international collaboration. And finally by 20.14 we aim to have mobilised 20 million people worldwide to 'embrace' the 14 most terrible conflicts and promote their possible solutions: Connectivity, Positivity, Peace-building and Reduction of weaponry and armed conflicts.

In order to achieve this goal, MasterPeace will develop innovative and bottom-up campaigning, that will start with pre-launching activities in the course of 2010 and 2011. On 5 May 2010 the MasterPeace logo is presented before an overwhelmingly positive audience of 150,000 people at the 'Bevrijdingspop' festival in Haarlem, Holland.

The MasterPeace Head Quarters will be based in Egypt and run by Ilco's companion Mohammed Helmy (in the picture Mohamed is the one in the middle), the former Dance4Life Egypt Project Leader.

In his weblog Ilco writes about the ups and downs of realizing such an ambitious international project. Follow the blog, link up (on LinkedIn and Facebook) and support us! Please feel invited to join.