TheWorld March for Peace and Nonviolence is an initiative of World without Wars, an international organization which has worked for peace and nonviolence since 1995 and was created by theHumanist Movement.[1]
The project of the World March was launched in 2008.[citation needed]
The March started October 2 (Gandhi's birthday), 2009 inWellington,New Zealand and finished on January 2, 2010 inPunta de Vacas,Mendoza,Argentina. The March was intended to rise worldwide awareness for nonviolence. Concrete demands of the March are: abolition of nuclear weapons; withdrawal of invading troops from occupied territories; the progressive and proportional reduction of conventional weapons; the signing of non-aggression treaties among nations and the renunciation by governments of war as a way to resolve conflicts.[2]
The World March for Peace and Nonviolence includes millions of individuals, on six continents in 90 countries, traveling some 160,000 kilometers.[3][4]
A second March was held on October 2, 2019 inMadrid and circles back to the same location and finished on March 8, 2020.[5][6]
One of the key strategies to promote the March is to receive endorsements from personalities and organizations in a variety of fields.[citation needed]