In 2025, for only the third time, the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run will circumnavigate the entire continent of Australia, starting in Canberra on 24 April, running clockwise to visit all capital cities, with millions of footsteps through forests, across deserts, along beaches, highways and byways, visiting hundreds of schools, community groups, civic leaders and events, returning to Canberra on 13 August.
Since its founding in 1987, the Run has visited almost every country on earth – over 150 nations and territories – and touched the lives of millions of people.
How does it work?
The Peace Run is a worldwide relay run. Runners carry a torch – the Peace Torch. The torch is passed from hand to hand, from person to person, as we travel from nation to nation.
Running with the Peace Torch is a unique experience. It awakens the experience of peace as a tangible reality – a reality that is dynamic, fulfilling and achievable. Hundreds of thousands of individuals, from schoolchildren to heads of state, have shared the joy of this experience.
In 2025, the Peace Run will circumnavigate the entire continent of Australia, a 15,500km journey of the heart, connecting communities, cultures, landscapes and above all, the hope and promise of peace and a better world.
The Peace Run will commence in Canberra and arrive in Shepparton on April 29:
| Day | Date | Route | km | Total |
| Thu | 24/04/25 | Canberra opening | 0 | 0 |
| Fri | 25/04/25 | Canberra | 0 | 0 |
| Sat | 26/04/25 | Canberra, ACT – 150 – Tumut, NSW | 150 | 150 |
| Sun | 27/04/25 | Tumut, NSW – 101 – Wagga Wagga, NSW | 101 | 251 |
| Mon | 28/04/25 | Wagga Wagga, NSW – 31 – The Rock – 31 – Henty – 68 – Albury, NSW | 130 | 381 |
| Tue | 29/04/25 | Albury, NSW – 79km Wangaratta VIC – 95 – Shepparton VIC | 182 | 557 |
| Wed | 30/04/25 | Shepparton VIC -120 – Bendigo, VIC | 120 | 679 |
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Founder – Sri Chinmoy
Sri Chinmoy’s work for peace spanned five decades and earned him appreciation from luminaries such as President Mikhail Gorbachev, President Nelson Mandela and Mother Teresa.
In 1970, with the encouragement of then United Nations Secretary General U Thant, Sri Chinmoy began a twice-weekly series of talks and reflections on peace at the United Nations in New York, which he continued until his passing in 2007.
Sri Chinmoy was an athlete, a poet, a music-lover, a philosopher and an artist – and he showed that all of these could play a powerful role in the pursuit of peace. Over the years, he provided the visionary spark for numerous imaginative grassroots initiatives to bring people together. The Peace Run – the largest of these initiatives – was founded in 1987.
