Vox Pacis

The non-governmental and non-commcercial association

VOX PACIS is financially and formally responsible for the concept and the choral concert and work. Vox Pacis.
The organisation code is 802409-1608. The seat of Vox Pacis is Stockholm, Sweden.

started in Sweden but has connections internationally and is part of networks like the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures, seated in Alexandria, Egypt.

The aim

of the activities of Vox Pacis is to work for peace in terms of music, creativity and ecumeny in order to inspire an interactive, cultural dialogue and new creativity within music and the arts.

The global première

will take place int the heart of Stockholm, the Capital of Sweden, in late summer 2008. Stockholm with its 1.8 million inhabitants is famous for its rich range of choirs but also for the fact that many religious congregations are living side by side. Furthermore Stockholm has a tradition of active ecumenic and international co-operation. Alfred Nobel - Nathan Söderblom - Dag hammarskjöld - are some of the Swedes who have devoted their work to peace and understanding in an ecumenic spirit. Vox Pacis thinks that time has come to commemorate their ideas and to promote the creation of an international choral concert, Vox Pacis, to make these ideas come alive to-day in the name of peace.

Nathan Söderblom

a Swedish archbishop, author and musician, was the first person to organize the big international ecumenic meeting that was held in Stockholm in 1925. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1930.

Dag Hammarskjöld

a Swedish diplomat, author and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 1961, was the Secretary General of the UN and with a strong pathos in his work for international issues in the perspective of peace.

Guest apperances - tours

Cairo, Jerusalem, New Delhi, Paris are preliminary planned for.

Vox Pacis co-ordinators around the world

Mohamad Jawad, co-ordinator Sweden with Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Morocco and Saudi Arabia
Maynard Gerber, cantor of the Jewish Congregation in Stockholm, co-ordinator with Israel
Thomas Sahlström, producer (TS Music) for the Tblisi Choir in Gerogia
Chungdak Koren, chairperson of the Norwegian Tibet Committee and former representative of Dalai Lama in Switzerland - now co-ordinating between Vox Pacis and the world of Buddhism.
Veikko Kiiver, co-ordinator of Baltic and Russian choirs and some other European choirs as well. Responsible also for minor associating choirs performing in connection with Vox Pacis.

”When the vision of Vox Pacis was born and materialized, I discovered that many persons were breeding similar thoughts, like”War is primitive and no longer justifiable to civilized and democratic societies in the era of 2000” and ”We have to create art projects that can achieve at new forms and new ideas. – How can peace be visualized?” Many, many persons expressed their interest in taking part in this process. Together we have initiated Vox Pacis, a work for peace and freedom through music, which we hope will spread circles on the water, world- wide.”
Gunilla Nordlund