Oscar Arias Sanchez served two terms as president of Costa Rica between 1986-1990 and 2006-2010. He was instrumental in bringing peace to Central America by drafting the Esquipulas II Accords of 1987 which was ratified by the Presidents of Central American which resulted in bringing the fighting in the region to an end. In the same year Arias won the Nobel Peace Price for his peace efforts and thereupon established the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress. Oscar Arias encourages champions of peace to build as many bridges as possible to bring people together across borders, across oceans and across differences in cultures that separate us. He believes that the Fuji Declaration represents an effort to build such a bridge uniting us all to respect and nurture the divine spark which resides in all of our hearts. Arias urges others to sing the Fuji Declaration as we are the spark of peace to the fire we are building together.