The inaugural World “Peace, Dignity & Respect” Unity Walk took place on August 8, 2008 (08/08/08) during the opening day of the Olympic Games. The World Unity Walkers carry forth the message, "All Life is Sacred." The next Olympic "Peace, Dignity & Respect" events will take place from February 6th - February 22nd, 2026. We are calling the people of all nations to join the World Unity Walk around t
he globe on February 7th, 2026 (first Saturday of all future Olympic Games), and to hold peace & unity events during the entire seventeen days of the Olympic Games. This harmonious unification of intention through our peaceful actions will create an inner feeling of oneness that we all can share. www.facebook.com/OlympicPeaceMovement
The World "Peace, Dignity & Respect" Unity Walk in Las Vegas, along the world-famous Las Vegas Strip (on Saturday, July 15th, 2028), will be led by a procession of flags from all nations, including the indigenous nations of the world. We will invite representatives from each nation or tribe to carry their respective flag. For some, their journey will begin several weeks or months prior to the World Unity Walk. Many will travel to Las Vegas by foot or other means, carrying their flag from across the continent, or from around the world. www.facebook.com/PeaceDignityJourneys | www.TheUnityRide.com | www.facebook.com/WorldPeaceWalk | www.facebook.com/LongestWalk
In respect for members of the International Olympic Truce Foundation and Centre, we will carry the Olympic Truce flag. The World Unity Walk is a conduit for raising awareness to the Olympic Truce, calling for all hostilities to cease during the Olympic Games and beyond, and mobilizing the youth of the world in the cause of peace. The mission of the IOTF and IOTC, which were established in 2000 as a joint initiative of Greece and the International Olympic Committee, is to promote the Olympic Ideals through peace building, friendship, mutual respect, understanding and reconciliation. www.OlympicTruce.org
In respect for members of The Peace Alliance in their enduring campaign to establish a U.S. Department of Peace, we will carry a special peace flag. The Peace Alliance is an alliance of organizers and advocates throughout the United States taking the work of peace building from the margins of society into the centers of national discourse and policy priorities. Their network includes volunteer grassroots teams in cities, towns, colleges and high school campuses across the nation. www.ThePeaceAlliance.org
In respect for members of the Peace One Day organization for their dedicated efforts in establishing September 21st as Peace Day (originally adopted by a U.N. General Assembly Resolution passed in 1981), which is now recognized by the United Nations as the International Day of Peace, a day of global cease-fire and nonviolence, we will carry the World Peace (with Dove) flag. www.PeaceOneDay.org
In respect for members of the Wodakota Foundation, we will carry a "Honoring Sacred Sites" flag. Beginning in 1996, Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th generation keeper of the sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe for the Lakota, Dakota & Nakota Sioux Nation, along with many friends, traveled the world performing sacred ceremonies on June 21st in establishing World Peace and Prayer Day -- "All Nations, All Faiths, One Prayer." The Wodakota Foundaton is also working towards having June 21st recognized by the United Nations as "Honoring Sacred Sites Day," in an effort to protect places that people consider sacred. www.Wolakota.org | www.SacredLand.org | www.ProtectSacredSites.org | www.facebook.com/SaveSacredSites
In respect for the crew of Sea Shepherd, in their relentless efforts to protect and defend marine wildlife worldwide, Chief Harry "Goodwolf" Kindness, who has walked and ran thousands of miles around the world to share the message, "All Life is Sacred," will carry the flag of the Six Nations Iroquois that is also flown on Sea Shepherd ships. As stated by Captain Paul Watson, "It is the one flag that we are most proud to have been given permission to fly." www.PaulWatsonFoundation.org | www.facebook.com/ChiefKindness
In respect for members of the United Native Nations Grand Council, their staff, the Unity Riders & Rowers, and Spirit Runners & Walkers, we will carry the U.S. Dream Catcher Eagle flag as a symbol of unity between natives and non-natives alike. It is time for all Indigenous Nations to take their rightful place among the nations of the world, and have a cohesive, influential voice in global affairs that indelibly impacts all of us. Their voice, for the most part, has been greatly ignored for far too long. www.facebook.com/UnitedNativeNations | www.TheUnityRide.com | www.facebook.com/PeaceDignityJourneys | www.facebook.com/LongestWalk
In respect for our Veterans and members of the Zaltho Foundation & The Long Walk Home organization, we will carry Veteran flags during the World "PDR" Unity Walk with deep appreciation for their service. Vietnam Veteran Claude AnShin Thomas, acclaimed author of "At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to Peace," is the founder of the Zaltho Foundation (in 1993), a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote peace and nonviolence in and among individuals, families, societies, and countries supporting all efforts to attain this goal through whatever peaceful and nonviolent means available. Ron Zaleski is a Vietnam Veteran who founded The Long Walk Home organization (in 2006). Zaltho.org | TheLongWalkHome.org
In respect for Nipponzan-Myōhōji monks, nuns, and followers, who walk throughout the world promoting peace and nonviolence, we will carry a special prayer flag. Nipponzan Myōhōji has also constructed over eighty Peace Pagodas in several countries around the world. www.GraftonPeacePagoda.org | www.NewEnglandPeacePagoda.org | www.AtlantaDojo.org | Bainbridge Island, WA
In respect for the World Peace Walkers, we will carry the Afro-American heritage flag in remembrance of their ancestors. In 2009, several individuals from various ethnic, religious and cultural backgrounds, including four generations of African Americans, completed a three-and-a-half-year peace walk around the world on the "Trail of Dreams." They also completed a thirteen-month peace walk across America that began on 10/10/10, and ended on 11/11/11. Their dedication and determination is an inspiration for all of us. We joined together in the spirit of peace on 08/08/08. www.facebook.com/WorldPeaceWalk
In respect for members of Planting Peace for their commitment to helping the children of our world, we will carry a full-size flag of Haiti. For the past several years Planting Peace has focused on working with underprivileged children in less-developed nations, with their initial concentration in Haiti. www.PlantingPeace.org
In respect for the Gandhi Peace Walkers, who walked across the United States from L.A. to D.C. to share Gandhi's message, "We must be the change we wish to see in the world," we will carry a full-size flag of India. When asking Dermot Butterly why he did this walk, he said, "I wanted to do something in this world that makes me feel good about being in this world." www.facebook.com/GandhiPeaceWalk
In respect for members of the Memnosyne Institute, we will carry the flag of the Lady of Guadalupe that is part of the annual celebration at "The Pyramid of the Sun." The mission of the Memnosyne Institute is to help the diverse people of the world consciously encourage an evolution for themselves and for future generations by providing mankind with the means to encourage positive, peaceful global collaboration in all areas of knowledge. www.MemnosyneInstitute.org
In respect for members of Global Country of World Peace, we will carry their flag that will one day be flying at Peace Palaces in all countries of the world. GCWP describe its mission as the creation of world peace "by unifying all nations in happiness, prosperity, invincibility, and perfect health." Peace Palaces are currently being built worldwide that will offer a full range of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Vedic Science programs, including his Transcendental Meditation technique that has been learned by more than five million people. www.PeacePalaces.com
In respect for Aung San Suu Kyi, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa(s), His Holiness the true 11th Panchen Lama, and the people of Burma & Tibet, we will carry their flags together in unity with the hope that one day soon they will enjoy precious freedom that we all cherish deeply, even more so after it is taken away. www.USCampaignForBurma.org | www.SaveTibet.org | www.facebook.com/WalkForBurma | www.facebook.com/WalkForTibet
When we come together as ONE, we become stronger with each passing day. Let us walk, run or ride with the same intention for peace no matter where we are at that moment. For 365 days this moving symbol of peace will expand as it reverberates around the world. Then, every other year, on the first Saturday of all future Olympic Games, our World Unity Walk will unite the world through a spectacular global demonstration of peace that will rejuvenate our spirit, and strengthen our resolve, as we continue forward. "We will be known forever by the tracks we leave." ~Dakota
