It is a great pleasure for me to participate and collaborate in the “First European Human Forum of the ANH” , featuring encounters for Personal and Social Transformation and to be held from 7th till 9th of November at the World Trade Center of Barcelona.

Such initiatives contribute to the improvement of our future as a human collective.The moment has come to make a statement: “If you want peace, help to build it with your everyday behaviour”.

In 1963, president J. F. Kennedy stated : “There are no problems for which the solution lays beyond human capacity, because man is able to create”.

We have to invent our future all together and thus make peace possible.

Every single day will see more and more proactive people, with the willpower to mobilize themselves, to say “no” if in disagreement, to applaud and support. Individuals who reject violence of any sort, as conflicts —which will always be a fact of life— should be resolved through dialogue and understanding. People who firmly maintain that no belief should be imposed upon the other, that no race is superior, that gender equality is essential. All these issues are coming to maturity. We march towards a culture of cooperation, of mobilisation and of joining forces.

Now, we celebrate the encounter of an alliance which ignites inside every one of us and which will allow us to march forward together.

We count on you,

Federico Mayor Zaragoza
Foundation Cultura de Paz