Tutu Peace Centre
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The Desmond Tutu Peace Centre is an international non governmental organization set up to perpetuate one of the greatest moral voices of our time.

A world in which everyone is loved, heard, cared for and unique. We aim to create and maintain a Peace Centre that will deliver programmes that further the understanding that peace flows out of justice and that there is essential good in everyone. The Desmond Tutu Peace Centre is a non-profit organisation founded and inspired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife, Leah. The Centre is committed to creating a society that nurtures tolerance and understanding amongst all people and is guided by the virtues that the Archbishop himself has identified as essential human values and the building blocks for sustainable peace: Love, Hope, Tolerance and Courage. The ideal society is one in which its members enjoy their freedom to be human freely, provided they do not thereby infringe the freedoms of others unduly. Peace involves inevitable righteousness, justice, fullness of life, participation in decision making, goodness, laughter, joy, compassion, sharing and reconciliation. We are different precisely in order to realise our need of one another. We humans can tolerate suffering but we cannot tolerate meaninglessness. Read about the life and times of Desmond Tutu in his interactive timeline. The official Desmond Tutu Digital Archives are in development.