Important note about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, February 24, 2022: Although we are a strictly apolitical initiative, we must categorically condemn the evils and injustices of war, because ordinary people suffer the most in every war. We condemn gross violations of international law and the principles of the UN Charter. There is no rational […]

Brookwood, May 2021. Slovak Ambassador to London Mr. Róbert Ondrejcsák and Czech Ambassador to London Mr. Libor Sečka together with Slovak Defense Attaché Colonel Vladimír Stolárik met at the Tree of Peace in Brookwood. This important Tree was planted on December 4, 2019 by the President of the Slovak Republic Zuzana Čaputová together with the […]

Moscow, May 7, 2021. At the request of Ľubomír Rehák, Slovak Ambassador to Russia and laureate of the Tree of Peace Memorial Plaque, the highest award awarded for merits of the International Tree of Peace, was today celebrated a Lity – Orthodox service in memory of fallen soldiers liberating Czechoslovakia in WW2 and all war […]

Canberra, Australia, May 4, 2021. Today marks the 102nd Anniversary of the death of Milan Rastislav Štefánik (21 July 1880 – 4 May 1919), a Slovak astronomer, photographer, military pilot, brigadier general of the French Armed Forces, diplomat and politician. On April 29, 2021, on the 110th anniversary of Štefánik’s successful observation of the solar […]

Žilina, April 26, 2021. The non-governmental association Servare et Manere, as the responsible organization for the implementation of the international project Tree of Peace, is looking for opportunities and challenges to plant memorial trees also in the home country. Plantings in Slovakia are especially important during the pandemic period, when travel abroad is very limited. […]

Žilina, April 15, 2021. The non-governmental association Servare et Manere is pleased to inform that the Grand Ducal House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz has become a new Friend of Peace in our International Tree of Peace project. The Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was a territory in Northern Germany which was a sovereign state until 1918. The current […]