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The Peace Prize Festival, held Sunday, February 20th, is an afternoon-long celebration of peace expressed in music, dance, art and theater by students from school, church and other youth groups with a majority of participants from peace-site schools. The students' commitment to peace is also celebrated by other distinguished guests at the Festival, including Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Peace Prize Forum speakers and the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

The Festival offers an array of artistic exhibits, skits, music and storytelling about the ideals of peace -- created by student participants from the festivals Adopt-A-Laureate Program. This program, coordinated by World Citizen, Inc., promotes commitment to peace by encouraging students to study the complex dynamics in which the laureates intervened to promote peace. At the festival, students demonstrate their enlarged understanding of peace, and the dialogue about what they learned with dignitaries and Festival participants. The afternoon's program ends with music and a celebration of the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Peace Prize Festival is held each year, in cooperation with the Peace Prize Forum and the Norwegian Nobel Institute, for youth and others in the general public to come together in expression of their personal commitment to peace.