Committed to global issues
Islandus.com is the proud sponsor of Peace 2000 Earthchild, helping raise funds for peace initiatives and humanitarian work.
Humanitarian flights
Peace 2000 has since 1995 organized several humanitarian flights to war torn countries, flying in gifts, food, clothing and medical aid to those in desperate need.
Peace through democracy
Peace 2000 is promoting the Althing-Jerusalem as a roadmap to peace for the Middle East. A diplomacy concept based on ancient history of the Althing assembly where the Vikings agreed to lay down arms, renounce violence and embrace peace.
Awarding peacemakers
The Leifr Eiriksson Peace Award named after Leifr Eiriksson who discovered America in the year 1000. That year, the Vikings of Iceland agreed to solve their differences on religion peacefully and lay down their arms at the Althing. This became the cornerstone of a culture of peace. While violent wars plagued the world, Icelanders became the only nation in the world to never carry weapons. The Leifr Eiriksson Peace Award is presented to those people around the world who today carry on this culture of peace.
Humanitarian work
Peace 2000 has delivered medical supplies, food, clothing and gifts to help innocent victims of war. The Santa Peaceflight was launched in 1995 with the idea of flying gifts with a message of solidarity, friendship and hope from the children in the west to children in war torn countries. Flights have been made from the UK, Ireland and Iceland carrying gifts with personalized messages from our children to children of a similar age in a war torn country. Collection of gifts and messages has been organized through various channels including schools and other non profit organizations. Distribution in the war torn countries has then been carried out in cooperation with locally based charities including local Red Cross and Red Crescent societies. The Santa Peaceflights have also brought food and medical aid and Peace 2000 has flown ambulance flights with children in need for urgent surgery at well equipped western hospitals. The Santa Peaceflights earned us humanitarian awards from the Gandhi Foundation and the Greek Orthodox Church who awarded Peace 2000 their Holy Gold Cross at the nomination of UNESCO.