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Wednesday, January 5, 2000 PeaceChannel.com Launched on New Year's Eve in Auckland, New Zealand A new internet magazine was launched from the South Pacific to coincide with the new millennium. The Peace Channel went online on New Year's Eve from Auckland, New Zealand, one of the first cities in the world to celebrate the new millennium. Peace Channel creator, Auckland University of Technology (AUT) of tomorrow. "It's about the world that they are inheriting and the world that they really want to create," Traylen says. The Peace Channel is being supported by AUT as part of its observance of the UN International Year for the Culture of Peace. AUT officially became a university on January 1 - a world first for the new millennium. The premiere issue of the online magazine includes a special presentation, called Peace Miracles, on breakthroughs in the quest for world peace from the period 1977 - 1999. There is also an online survey for visitors to share their thoughts on the challenges facing humanity in the new millennium. Traylen says The Peace Channel aims to put the modern technology of the internet to positive use. "We live in a world where there are a lot of problems but there are also solutions, and we are beginning to take positive steps towards implementing those solutions," he says. "People need to know that there is hope and that a world without poverty and without war is not some kind of far-fetched dream." Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter. www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2011 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved.