"Women War & Peace" event on tap

Appearances by Academy Award winner Geena Davis and documentary filmmaker Abigail Disney, as well as a “Day of Service,” will mark the Southern California debut of a bold, five-part PBS television series.

Daniel Wehrenfennig

Sowing the seeds of peace

Olive Tree Initiative founders, recent recipients of the Living Our Values Award, see their vision take root. The students hope to bring greater understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Living Our Values Award recipients announced

Chancellor Michael V. Drake has announced the recipients of the fall 2007 Living Our Values Awards, which honor UC Irvine…

Peace talks (1)

John Whiteley asks how – and if – peace can be achieved in the nuclear age

Tickets on sale for the official world celebration of the 14th Dalai Lama’s landmark 80th birthday and Global Compassion Summit

Three-day summit presented by Friends of the Dalai Lama in partnership with UC Irvine and Center for Living Peace to take place Sunday, July 5 through Tuesday, July 7 at Anaheim’s Honda Center and UC Irvine’s Bren Events Center

Dalai Lama

14th Dalai Lama’s 80th birthday to be celebrated with a Global Compassion Summit July 5-7

Three-day summit is presented by Friends of the Dalai Lama in partnership with UCI and Center for Living Peace, with a special world birthday event at Anaheim’s Honda Center

Leymah Gbowee

‘Victories out of victimhood’

Nobel laureate Leymah Gbowee discusses women and war in Living Peace Series appearance

Jane Goodall talks chimps, charity, choices

Renowned primatologist and environmental activist is sixth guest in Living Peace Series.

Sir Richard Branson to speak at UCI

Sponsored by UC Irvine and Orange County’s Center for Living Peace, the Living Peace Series will present Sir Richard Branson, the British industrialist who built the Virgin Group into more than 360 companies, discussing the work of his nonprofit foundation, Virgin Unite.

At Corona del Mar State Beach on Wednesday, a Tibetan monk releases into the ocean sand from a mandala created at UCI

Sand mandala dissolved but not forgotten

Artwork blessed by the XIV Dalai Lama during the Global Compassion Summit is swept away