PIERRE WEIL

BIOGRAPHIC SUMMARY

Fulfillment of his ideal

Little time after the end of his retreat, in 1986 he is invited by the then Governor of Brasília, the ex-Minister and ex-Ambassador, José Aparecido de Oliveira, to create the City of Peace Foundation, of which he is elected President and whose function would be to create and to manage the International Holistic University of Brasília, UNIPEACE (UNIPAZ, in Portuguese), with the help of Monique Thoenig (creator of the first Holistic University of Paris) and of Jean Yves Leloup, then Director of Saint Solace International Centre.

In 1987 the City of Peace Foundation is created, in the presence of eminent jurists and of the builders of Brasília, Lúcio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer. On the 14 th of April, 1988, in the presence ot the UNESCO Council President, Mr. Israel Vargas, the University is inaugurated.

It would be tedious and inappropriate to describe in details the achievements of this university, under the direction of its head, Pierre Weil, with the enthusiastic participation of a hundred collaborators that he succeeded to put together, around him, during these twelve years. We will, then, limit ourselves to the essential point.

In 1988, Pierre Weil conceives a theory about the genesis of the destruction of life on Earth and about the principles and approaches which enable a new method of Education for Peace. Inspired by the Venice Declaration, which he included in the by-laws of the City of Peace Foundation and by numberless other UNESCO recommendations, he begins to try a synthesis of seminars that he had given to his students at the Belo Horizonte University, applying the transdisciplinary model of this theory.

Encouraged by the great acceptance of this seminar, which he names "The Art of Living in Peace", he writes a pedagogic exposition in which he shows the original aspects of this contribution, mainly about a synthesis of oriental and western methods, as also about a transdisciplinary theory and vision of Peace and of Consciousness. It is really na international work for Peace. This work was presented to UNESCO by the Ministry of External Relations of Brazil and by the Brazilian Delegation at UNESCO headquarters and comes to the knowledge of Mr. Federico Maior. The Humanistic Education Division, headed by Mrs. Kaisa Savolainen, published it in French and in English in 1991 and Mrs. Savolainen writes a preface to the English edition, in Findhorn.

Until the present time the mentioned work has been published in 6 languages. Mr. Robert Muller, Chancellor of the Peace University and a receiver of the UNESCO Prize, wrote a preface to the Brazilian edition. Not much time later Pierre Weil was invited to present his method in a regional UNESCO seminar in Khartoum, Sudan. His seminar was very well accepted by all participants, whose majority , composed of muhammadans, highly praised his work. In 1993, Pierre Weil presents his seminar to the UN Peace University in San Jose, Costa Rica. Which inspires itself in it to make a logotype to be used in its publications and it also decides to establish an official interchange agreement between the two Universities.

After beginning to form the actors in all South America and in Europe, an European Association of Peace Education was created with the specific goal of divulging the Art of Living in Peace throughout the whole Europe and to multiply the process.

UNIPEACE takes care of Education in three levels: of sensitization, of formation and of post-formation, of research and of repairing action of that which the human being has disorganised or destroyed in himself/herself, in society or in nature.

Pierre Weil succeeded to integrate in most of the educational programs, this same integrating trilogy of three aspects of Peace, as follows:

1.Peace with oneself (Individual ecology and consciousness), about the fields of the body, of the emotions and of the spirit.

2. Peace with the other human beings. (Social ecology and consciousness), about the fields of economy, society and politics, and of culture.

3.Peace with nature (Ecology and Consciousness of the Universe), about the fields of matter, of life and of information.