"COLORS OF PEACE"
Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run for
the International Day of Peace of the United Nations.

On September 21st, a very special peace-drawings exhibition named “Colors of Peace”, featuring artworks collected by Peace Run in schools around the world, was inaugurated.
In the past decade the Colosseum in Rome has been the stage for the promotion of high profile cultural and ethical initiatives. What better location to host the exhibition - 7000 peace-drawings created by school children from over thirty countries, inviting the world to share the vision of peace and unity for the future.

The exhibition was inaugurated with a ceremony held inside the prestigious Colosseum arena. The exhibition celebrated the 30th anniversary of the “Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run”, the longest relay run for Peace in the world and was attended by Government officials, Ambassadors and members of the Diplomatic Missions accredited to the Italian Republic, intellectuals and a delegation of school children.

The Ceremony also celebrated the United Nations International Day of Peace, that falls every year on this day. The Peace Run has responded to the United Nations appeal contained in Resolution A / RES / 36/67, which calls on institutions and civil society to celebrate the International Day of Peace and to promote it in the public arena.

The exhibition was visible to the Rome citizens and tourists alike, from September 21 to September 24, 2017. The protective barriers surrounding the Colosseum were thus transformed into a ring of unity by the thousands of drawings displayed there: a symbol of union and concord in the world family.

The initiative was sponsored by the Presidency of the Senate of the Republic, the Chamber of Deputies, the Presidency of the Council for Equal Opportunities, the Ministry of Schools and Education (MIUR), Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities (MIBACT), the city of Rome, and was organized in collaboration with the Archaeological Park of the Colosseum, the “Morano” High school from the town of Caivano and Arvalia Association.

A curious fact! Among the many schools that participated in “Colors of Peace” is a school in Buenos Aires, the Institute No. 8 "Coronel Pedro Antonio Cerviño", where His Holiness Pope Francis went as a schoolchild.

Members of the following Embassies attended the event:
Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic Of Congo, Ecuador, Greece, Kenya, Kosovo, Nigeria, Panama, Poland, Republic of San Marino, Romania, Slovak Republic, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates.

To access the photo archive of the ceremony:
https://flic.kr/s/aHsm7reKt2

To access the archive of the ceremony of the "Colors of Peace" Exhibition:
https://flic.kr/s/aHsm5YFW6F