How to participate

We invite all UNESCO children and youth to connect through a message of peace as a call for life and their future— a message that will blow like the wind across the world. Each country will ensure that the Wind of Peace is passed on to another country as quickly as possible. It doesn’t matter where or how the message is delivered—what matters is that it reaches every country in the world.

At each handover, children state that they are carrying the Wind of Peace message and deliver the message in their own language and the language of the country they are visiting—because languages connect us. Respect for and freedom of all cultures and languages contributes to peace; a world with only one language or culture would be much poorer.

The Wind of Peace will exclude no country, as it is a call from children—not a political action. All children should be involved in delivering the message, especially those with disabilities (mobility impairments, blindness, deafness, etc.). Only children and youth may speak; adults can o er support but must not speak on their behalf. No political representatives of any country, city, etc. may be involved in these activities. Each country is free to organize additional events across all regions, without any form of exclusion based on ethnicity or background. When the Wind of Peace is transferred between continents or to island nations, children may also ask airplane pilots to assist in delivering it.

The Wind of Peace begins in Slovenia and will be passed on to our neighbours in Italy, Austria, Hungary, and Croatia. We will only take the first step, allowing each country to organize the handover in its own way. As part of this initiative, we will prepare special notebooks that will travel along di erent routes from Slovenia to all corners of the world, symbolically connecting children and youth through their messages of peace.