The Missing Peace is an international traveling art exhibit of more than 70 pieces of art in various media by artists in more than 20 countries. The exhibit is co-sponsored by The Committee of 100 for Tibet and the Dalai Lama Foundation. It opened at The Fowler Museum in Los Angeles in 2004, went on to Chicago and New York and is now on display at The Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco before going to Tokyo in the Fall of 2008. Here is a quotation from the Dalai Lama in the Exhibit Catalog:

"I am happy and honored to see that this project is now complete, not because I want people to know more about me personally, but because it draws attention to a cause I hold dear, the achievement of genuine lasting world peace. At the same time, the project itself demonstrates that individuals working together on many fronts are the best way to advance towards our goals.

"This project is not focused on the work of individual artists, but upon peace. These works of art collectively seek to create zones of peace, and are intended to inspire others to generate compassion, love and patience, which are essential if human beings are to achieve happiness.

"Art has an important communicative and inspirational role to play in our lives. In my own land of Tibet, for example, we had rich traditions of using art to remind us of the goals we sought. We also used art to create an atmosphere conducive to the achievement of those goals. I have no doubt about art's power to inspire.

"I hope that the messages reflected in these works will not go unheeded. All human beings carry the potential for peace within them, but we have to work to develop it. The works in this exhibition can serve as an inspiration for people to cultivate peace and harmony in their own lives. This is important becasue I believe we can transform ourselves and the societieis to which we belong. I am convinced that if more of us could spend a few minutes every day truing to develop a sense of inner peace, eventually it would become part of our lives; then everything we do will contribute to peace in the world."

Dalai Lama
June 15, 2006