Beloved Friends and Relatives,
We warmly invite you to join us on One World as we come together to build a global network rooted in Indigenous wisdom, spiritual unity, compassion in action, and practical service to Mother Earth and all members of the Human Family.
One World is being created as a living gathering place where people, communities, organizations, spiritual traditions, youth, elders, artists, educators, healers, peacebuilders, and movements can come together to share their gifts, answer the guiding questions, name their needs, offer their vision, find collaborators, receive mentorship, exchange resources, and amplify their work through coordinated global campaigns for peace, healing, justice, sustainability, and right relationship.
We especially invite your participation in the Compassion Games Global Movement and in our shared movement to:
Choose Peace. Live Peace. End War.
This movement will begin with a globally synchronized Solstice Ceremony on June 21, 2026, which will initiate the 99 Days of Peace Through Unity and participation in Choose Peace. Live Peace. End of War. Together, we will light the first fire of a global season of prayer, ceremony, action, service, healing, education, and community-building for peace.
The World Peace Gathering and the Animal Relatives Weekend
As part of this sacred journey, we will also be celebrating the second anniversary of our gathering in County Cork, Ireland, where we manifested the Planetary Binding Peace Treaty to End War.
The World Peace Gathering at Dripsey Castle, July 17–20, 2025, was not merely a meeting. It was a spiritual act of conscience, a ceremony of commitment, and a living declaration that the peoples of the Earth have the sacred right and responsibility to choose peace over war.
The Planetary Binding Peace Treaty to End War affirmed that war is not inevitable. It affirmed that peace must be organized with the same seriousness, discipline, resources, and commitment with which war has been organized. It reminded us that every person, community, Nation, faith tradition, spiritual movement, and circle of service has a sacred role to play in ending the culture of violence and building a culture of peace.
In 2026, this sacred journey will continue through two important gatherings within the 99 Days of Peace Through Unity.
The first will be the Second World Peace Gathering, July 17–20, 2026. During this gathering, we will further advance the Planetary Binding Peace Treaty to End War and deepen our collective commitment to peace through unity, compassion, justice, healing, and right relationship.
We will honor the first steps already taken, listen deeply to one another, strengthen the Treaty, welcome new Treaty Holders, deepen our spiritual and practical commitments, and continue building a living global movement capable of helping humanity turn away from war and walk together on the path of peace.
The second will be the Animal Relatives Weekend, August 6–9, 2026. This sacred weekend will be called together by the International Peace Team to honor our Animal Relatives, especially the beloved elephants of Southeast Asia, who are suffering today from habitat loss, exploitation, captivity, abuse, and the destruction of the lands and forests that have sustained them for generations.
During this weekend, we will deepen the understanding that peace cannot be limited to human beings alone. If we are truly choosing peace, living peace, and working to end war, then we must also make peace with our Animal Relatives. We must examine the ways human society has normalized cruelty, exploitation, and unnecessary harm, and we must courageously ask how we can leave these patterns behind.
Together, we will explore how to move more fully toward compassionate ways of living, including a vegan way of life that seeks to be free from harming animals and from participating in systems that cause suffering to living beings. This is not only a matter of diet. It is a matter of conscience, compassion, Mother Earth, climate justice, human rights, spiritual responsibility, and reverence for all life.
This Animal Relatives Weekend will help us bring forward Article 15 of the Planetary Binding Peace Treaty to End War as a living commitment:
Article 15: We, the members of the Human Family, commit to eliminating the exploitation of our Animal Relatives. Despite animal agriculture being one of the world’s leading emitters of methane, its role in climate change has been largely ignored at climate conferences. Furthermore, the increased demand for raising animals for human consumption is leading to the destruction of rainforests and rural lands that many of our brothers and sisters call home, causing human rights abuses, poverty, and violence.
We will hold the factory farming industry and the governments that shelter it through laws and policies accountable for these tragedies. We will also play our part in protecting Mother Earth from further destruction.
During this sacred weekend, we will ask how Article 15 can become action. How can individuals, families, communities, faith traditions, Indigenous Nations, youth, Elders, animal protectors, farmers, healers, educators, and peacebuilders work together to end cruelty and build a culture of compassion for all life?
We will gather stories, prayers, teachings, commitments, and practical steps. We will honor those already protecting animals and Mother Earth. We will lift up the elephants of Southeast Asia as sacred relatives and living witnesses, reminding us that the suffering of any part of Creation is connected to the suffering of the whole.
From these two gatherings, the journey will continue through the events of the International Week of Peace, the September Equinox, and into the concluding weekend of September 27, 2026, when we will gather to share our collective impact as a Team of Teams of Many Hoops.
At that time, we will celebrate what has been manifested together. We will honor the communities, movements, faith traditions, youth, Elders, Indigenous Nations, peacebuilders, animal protectors, and circles of service that have arisen in love and responsibility. We will gather the stories, prayers, projects, ceremonies, acts of service, youth actions, peacebuilding work, ecological restoration efforts, animal protection commitments, and community actions that have emerged from the 99 Days of Peace Through Unity.
During this gathering, we will honor the first steps already taken, listen to one another, strengthen the Treaty, welcome new treaty holders, deepen our spiritual and practical commitments, and continue building a living global movement capable of helping humanity turn away from war and toward the path of peace.
From there, we will continue through the events of the International Week of Peace, the September Equinox, and into the concluding weekend of September 27, 2026, when we will gather to share our collective impact as a Team** of Teams of Many Hoops**.
At that time, we will celebrate what has been manifested together, honor the communities and movements that have arisen in service, and prepare to move into the next stage of our shared journey. We will gather the stories, prayers, projects, ceremonies, acts of service, youth actions, peacebuilding work, and community commitments that have emerged from the 99 Days of Peace Through Unity.
This will not be a conclusion, but a doorway.
From there, we will continue onward to our Enlightening Our Way Together, from December 18–22, 2026, as we gather again in prayer, reflection, ceremony, consultation, and shared commitment to carry this movement forward. This will help prepare us for the next great stage of our journey in 2027, as we continue building a living global movement of peace through unity, compassion in action, Indigenous wisdom, spiritual cooperation, and service to all members of the Human Family.
We invite you to join us on One World so that you can fully answer the guiding questions, share your gifts, identify the communities and movements you serve, name the resources you may need, and discover how your work can be supported, connected, and amplified.
We invite your prayers. We invite you to our ceremonies. We invite your projects. We invite your communities. We invite your youth and elders. We invite your songs, stories, teachings, and acts of service.
We invite your organizations, networks, spiritual traditions, and movements. We invite all who are ready to help build a culture of peace, compassion, unity, justice, healing, and care for Mother Earth.
Each person has a part to play. Each community carries a gift. Each spiritual tradition holds a light. Each movement has a contribution to make. Together, we can become a Hoop of Many Hoops, a Team of Teams, united not by uniformity, but by love, purpose, prayer, and action.
As one Human Family, we can Choose Peace, Live Peace, and End War.
Learn more about the Planetary Binding Peace Treaty to End War
Join us on One World
We look forward to walking this path with you in a good way.
With Warm Love and Greetings,
Lala, Deksi, Ate, and Brother Phil
**Hereditary Chief Phil Lane Jr. **Ihanktonwan Dakota and Chickasaw Nations Chairperson, Four Directions International Chairperson, Compassion Games International
