All-for-Peace is a non-partisan, multi-faith, non-profit organization that aims to help restore peace and prosperity, as well as economic justice and opportunity in the Middle East. Joseph Zarabi, a businessman and philanthropist, first founded the Peoples Peace Initiative (PPI), a non-partisan movement, to help restore peace through education and professional training for children from Palestine and Israel, and their families. The tragic events in Iran prompted him to also create the Mahsa International Fund to help families of the victims of the regime and work towards bringing democracy to Iran. Both causes welcome all who want to make peace a reality. As the situation in Israel, Palestine, and Iran recently deteriorated, Joseph felt it was now urgent to join the two causes under one banner for peace: All-For-Peace.
The Peoples' Peace Initiative (PPI) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the creation of jobs for the Youth in the Middle East and to the support of education as a powerful tool to make peace a reality. It was founded in 1997 by Joseph Zarabi, a philanthropic businessman, with the goal of decreasing the tensions in the Middle East, starting with the Palestinians and the Israelis. Throughout his life, and especially since his departure from a successful family business to embrace his life’s mission, Joseph Zarabi has been donating his time and personal funds and assets to support the PPI’s mission.
Joseph and the PPI supporters believe that the ones affected the most by the Middle East conflict are the families at the bottom of the economic ladder and in the middle of the hostilities. Politicians who fail to address their real needs systematically abuse them. The PPI was created to be their voice, their support, and their tool.
The PPI is, as stated in its name, a movement of the People and for the People, regardless of their ethnicity, religion, or political affiliation. All are welcomed and all are needed to reach our goal: peace in the Middle East. The PPI’s goal is to raise awareness, educate and eliminate prejudice on both sides of the conflict, and fight for peace and prosperity. To achieve these goals, the PPI wishes to create a World Cultural Peace Center of the world in Jerusalem, which would serve as a center for education and cultural advancement for people globally.
