The World Peace Library has over 375 audio recordings with inspirational stories, skills training and powerful solutions by the world’s top peacebuilders, social change leaders, scientists, Indigenous elders and spiritual mentors.

The World Peace Library is a gift to the world from The Shift Network. Designed to inspire, inform and involve people by highlighting best practices from around the world, the Library is a collective effort in partnership with hundreds of individuals and organizations. The World Peace Library and all of Shift Network’s peace efforts are advised by a Wisdom Council of esteemed peacebuilders.

All recordings are FREE with NO obligation.

There is a new narrative of peace quietly and powerfully emerging around the world — one rooted in ancient wisdom and accelerated by modern science and technology. In the past few decades, there has been an exponential growth of personal and planetary peacebuilding initiatives, including:

• More people are meditating today to experience inner peace than ever before in the history of humanity.
• Scientists are validating the benefits of ancient meditation practices and are proving that humans are actually hard-wired for empathy, compassion and cooperation.
• More and more people in all sectors of society are recognizing that humanity is interconnected in a web of life.
• Nonviolent Communication and other forms of peaceful and compassionate communication are becoming mainstream.
• There are hundreds of colleges and universities with peace and conflict resolution programs, compared to only a handful in 1984.
• Community mediation, alternative dispute resolution and restorative justice are becoming common practice in many parts of the world, providing cost-effective ways to resolve conflicts while strengthening relationships and communities.
• There is an annual Global Peace Index that scientifically measures the most peaceful countries in the world and the economic and social impact of a lack of peace.
• The United Nations declared 2001-2010 as the International Decade for Culture of Peace and Nonviolence for the Children of the World.
• Over 500 million people celebrated the 32nd annual United Nations International Day of Peace in 2014.
  
  

The World Peace Library is intentionally designed to highlight the breadth and depth of the emerging narrative of peace. You can search the library for inspiring recordings according to:

• Broad topics: Emerging Peace Story, Inner Peace, Family & Interpersonal Peacebuilding, Community Peacebuilding, International Peacebuilding & Global Citizenship, and Planetary Peacebuilding.
• Categories within those broad topics include: 11 Days of Global Unity, Arts & Culture, Business & Economics, Communications & Media, Compassion in Action, Education & Learning, Environment, Food & Agriculture, Forgiveness, Healing Cultural Wounds, Indigenous Wisdom, Military & Security, Mind-Body-Spirit, Nonviolence, Parenting, Politics & Governance, Relationships, Restorative Justice, Science & Technology, Spirituality & Religion, Sports, Subtle Activism, Urban Peace, Vision, Your Piece of Peace
• Organizations: associated with each speaker
• Speakers: name of each speaker

To access, please visit: http://worldpeacelibrary.com/