(From February, 2008)

In the beginning, there was a vision.

Destination Peace: PeaceFest 08 is a global, interfaith, cross-cultural effort to create lasting peace through mobilizing dialogue, support and learning with Real Life Peace organizations.

In October of 2007, Cotton Thorne met Tonks Akina. Among their topics of discussion, they found that they both shared a passion for peace; an abiding hope and desire to advance the cause of peace in the world, and were both wanting to do something new, different and effective about it.

Thus Peace Train was founded, and soon after, the idea of creating the first PeaceFest - a global, mixed reality, three day festival focused on promoting and actively engaging in peace-related activities.

Vision: A three-day event to be held in August of 2008, featuring artists, performances, panel discussions, and more. The PeaceFest will run around the clock in Second Life, and will be integrated with Real Life events. The goal will be to raise funding and volunteerism for a variety of peace-related organizations that serve our global community.

The whistle is blowing! Climb on board the Peace Train. We welcome your gifts of time, ideas, talents and sponsorship.

Cotton Thorne

Tonks Akina