2/25/2008

Janet Onyenucheya

World Peace One is seeking to produce one of the biggest concert series to bring peace to the world through a 10-year global campaign of music, education and government initiatives.

World Peace One, a not-for-profit global peace advocacy group, has targeted some of the top acts in the world for a series of international concerts to begin May 17.  
  
Billboard reports that the event is in discussions with such high profile acts as U2, Madonna, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, ZZ Top, Lionel Richie, Celine Dion, INXS, Velvet Revolver, Will I. Am, Justin Timberlake, and Timbaland, says WP1 founder Doug Ivanovich.  
  
The initiative will begin with a series of concerts in Beijing; Istanbul, Turkey; London; Johannesburg; and Miami, as well as the United Arab Emirates, Portugal, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Colombia, India and possibly other locations.  
  
The WP1 team includes Artie Kornfeld, one of the original founder/producers of Woodstock, and Paul Flattery, a producer/director for Live Earth, as well as other such experienced event producers as Tommy Trbovich, Michael Blum and co-executive producer Lawrence Freiberg, formerly of Concerts West.  
  
WP1 has about 100 people around the world working on this project including Claes Nobel, senior member of the Nobel Peace Prize family. "Working towards peace is the family legacy," Nobel says. "Our intention is to transform the world, this crazy society that we have, to one that is better, safer and saner. We can help do this through World Peace One. We can send a signal of hope and good will, and that change can take place. That is our mission."