YEREVAN, DECEMBER 5, ARMENPRESS. The 18th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates (WSNPL) will be held in Seoul, the capital of South Korea, in 2020, the Seoul Mayor’s office said.

The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Seoul in 2020 will gather Nobel Peace Laureates and international experts, peace architects and young activists, representatives of the renown organisations and high-profile authorities as well as the civil society willing to contribute to the improvement of inter-Korean relations and to bring peace to the Korean Peninsula. 

The official organizers of the 2020 Nobel Peace Summit are the Seoul Metropolitan Government as the Official Host, and the Permanent Secretariat of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates as the Official Worldwide Organizer of the Summits. Within the days of the Summit various programs, multiple peace events and peace initiatives will be held where citizens can participate, such as photo exhibitions of Nobel Peace Laureates, a peace concert, and cultural events in symbolic places for peace, for instance, the DMZ, to share a message of peace with people around the world as well as the citizens.

The World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, established in 1999, is one of the most relevant and celebrated events related to the peace dialogue around the world. It was founded by former President and Nobel Peace Laureate Mikhail Gorbachev after he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990, to enhance the Peace movements and humanitarian activities of the world.

The most recent Summits have been held in Barcelona, Spain (15th), in Bogota, Colombia (16th), and in Merida, Mexico (17th). In the 20+ years of its history, this is the second time the WSNPL is coming to Asia, after Hiroshima, Japan hosted the event in 2010.