It has been nearly 25 years since a group of curious Japanese university students started the Peace Boat. Each year, the boat sets off on three global trips and visits 15-20 ports over a three-month period. Many foreigners choose to get interested in the Peace Boat as volunteers rather than participants, and sign up to teach or translate on the Global English/Espanol Training program. They want to foster the Peace Boat participants' language abilities and to look at how language can be used as a tool for building peace.
Away from the ship, the Peace Boat team is busy with a number of related activities and issues to keep peace.
The Peace Boat team is one of the NGOs (non-government organization) working hard to foster peace in Asia and around the world. I think that it can work more and more for peace by giving people a chance to go around the world and see people in other countries.
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