The Peace School Foundation of Monte Sole, created in 2002, has its registered office and its operating facilities in the Historical Park of Monte Sole, founded in 1989 by a law of the Emilia Romagna − Region. Its aim is to promote training and peace education projects, non−violent conflicts transformation, respect of human rights, for a peaceful living together among different people and cultures, for a society without xenophobia, racism and any other kind of violence towards human beings and their environment.

The place today
Monte Sole is a triangle of hills, approximately 10 miles south of Bologna, between the valley of the river Setta and the river Reno.
Today approximately 60% of the territory is covered by woods and the rest is turned into meadows, pastures and, in small part, also used for agriculture. The way it looks today is just a pale trace of what it was possible to see at the end of the second world war, where houses and little villages were spread all around.
The silence and the peacefulness of this apparently untouched place are the result of a terrible violence, a violence that it testified by the ruins one can find there, sign of what happened during the second world war.