Peace Boat and the Nobel Peace Center announce new partnership: Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition “A Message to Humanity” onboard

Peace Boat and the Nobel Peace Center (Oslo, Norway) have entered into a new partnership to share the work of the 2024 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Nihon Hidankyo, worldwide. An outreach edition of the Nobel Peace Center’s Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition "A Message to Humanity" exhibition will be established onboard the Pacific World, and Peace Boat will carry this to global audiences, reaching communities that might not otherwise have access to such initiatives and amplifying the voices of the Hibakusha. The dedicated exhibition room onboard the vessel features many of the powerful and moving exhibits of Nihon Hidankyo's work that are on display in Oslo, including photographs by Magnum photographer Antoine d'Agata.

The Nobel Peace Center represents the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize and promotes the Peace Prize laureates' ideas and causes to inspire actions for a more peaceful world. Through exhibitions, events, educational programs, and digital content, the Center spreads the work of the Peace Prize laureates, builds knowledge, and fosters international engagement. It also serves as a platform for discussions on peace, human rights, and dialogue.

Peace Boat is a Japan-based international NGO which was established in 1983 and conducts educational and advocacy programmes onboard its global voyages. Approximately 5000 people travel onboard Peace Boat’s global voyages annually, held three times each year and creating opportunities for grassroots intercultural exchange. As an organisation in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, Peace Boat is also active in advocacy related to nuclear disarmament, peace building, climate action and more. Our “Peace Boat Hibakusha Project: Global Voyage for a Nuclear-Free World,” launched in 2008, has brought over 170 Hibakusha around the world to give their first-hand testimonies.

Through this partnership, Peace Boat will bring the Nobel Peace Center’s Nobel Peace Prize exhibition, with their strong message and artistic value, to many people in countries and regions that would not have the opportunity to visit the Center in Oslo. It is the shared hope of Peace Boat and the Nobel Peace Center that through this partnership, more people will be inspired to think about peace, nuclear disarmament, and initiatives for peace that each and every individual can engage in.

Prior to the departure of Peace Boat’s 120th Global Voyage, the inaugural voyage of this special exhibition, an opening ceremony will be held on board the Pacific World as it is docked in the port of Yokohama. In addition to the Exhibition’s Curator, Asle Olsen, and the Communications Director of the Nobel Peace Center, Kim Reksten Gronneberg, who will be visiting Japan to prepare for the exhibition, the ceremony will be attended by Hamasumi Jiro and Wada Masako, Assistant Secretary Generals of 2024 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Nihon Hidankyo, as well as Fukushima Tomiko, Vice President of the Kanagawa Prefecture Association of Atomic Bomb Survivors, who is the subject of a photo in the exhibition.

Portrait of Fukushima Tomiko at the Nobel Peace Center; to be also included in the onboard exhibition
 ©Johannes Granseth / Nobel Peace Center

The opening ceremony will be held as follows.
All interested media are required to register in advance (by 17:00 on April 17) to attend.
Date:        April 22, 2025 (Tues), 13:00-14:30
Venue:        Onboard the Pacific World (Docked at the Osanbashi International Cruise Terminal, Port of Yokohama)
Access:    https://osanbashi.jp/access
Registration:    https://forms.gle/UC7rwxBGiEEKi7Tr7

Attendees are requested to enter from the main entrance on the 2nd floor of the Osanbashi International Passenger Boat Terminal at the Port of Yokohama by 12:30 p.m. to complete the necessary boarding procedures.

This event will take place on board the Pacific World, docked at the Osanbashi International Passenger Ship Terminal in the Port of Yokohama. Registration is required and must be completed by 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, using the link above. Individual registration is required for all potential attendees. Please bring a photo ID with you on the day of the event.

More information about the Exhibition: https://www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en/exhibitions/a-message-to-humanity

The Pacific World, docked at the port of Yokohama (photograph from April 2023)
©Mizumoto Shunya