New Year Peace Run

To celebrate the New Year, the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run took part in events in Montenegro and Croatia.

peace run mountain
Peace Run on the top of Lovćen Mountain

On New Year’s Eve, an international team of runners  marked the start of the upcoming year’s events by visiting the sacred mountain of Lovćen a national park of Montenegro.

peace-run-mountain
Carrying the Peace Run torch across the top of Lovcen mountain

The volunteers carried the Peace Torch to the snow capped mountain, which also serves as a monument to the most influential poet of Montenegro - Petar Petrović Njegoš. 

peace run
Team of Peace Runners in Dubrovnik 10 km race

On the following day, a team of Peace Runners took part in Dubrovnik's New Year 10 km race. The runners were interviewed by local TV and were able to share the message of the Peace Run founder Sri Chinmoy - that the Peace Run aspires to unite people from different backgrounds through running and humanity’s shared wish for a more peaceful world.

“Peace
Is the oneness-bridge
Between my satisfaction
And the world’s satisfaction.”

Sri Chinmoy [1]

Male and female winners of 10 km race

abhinabha
Abhinabha Tangerman (left) Olivera Jeftić from Serbia (centre) and Mr. Mišo Mihočević (right), the race manger with his Torch Bearer Award from the Peace Run.

Abhinabha Tangerman, who won the mens 10km race, is a member of the Peace Run team from Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Peace Run at school
Peace Run at school in Sutomore

Earlier in the week, the Peace Run Team had visited schools and local communities in Montenegro.

Related

Photos by Yatkara Aleksapolskyy