Lennon's song to fund UN peacekeeping mission

United Nations: Four decades after Beatle legend John Lennon recorded his famous anti-war anthem "Give Peace A Chance", the song will help generate funds for UN peacebuilding efforts in war-torn countries.
Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and his sons, Sean and Julian Lennon have pledged the proceeds from the song to go to the UN Peacebuilding Fund on its 40th anniversary.
The track was written in 1969 during Lennon and Yoko Ono's famous week-long "bed-in" protest against the Vietnam War, in which they lay on their honeymoon bed and courted the world's media at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel.
Profits from the song will benefit the Peace Building Commission, established in 2005, to assist countries emerging from conflict so that peace can be sustainable. "I am delighted to see that a song so closely identified with the pursuit of peace, will shine a light on the United Nations' peacebuilding efforts and financially support PBF projects," said UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) chairperson ambassador Heraldo Munoz of Chile.
"Generally when TV cameras leave a conflict, when the blue helmets also leave once a peace agreement has been signed, that does not mean peace will be sustainable over time...many of these countries relapse into conflict," Munoz added.
Ono has partnered with music industry giants, EMI and Sony, to give the net profits from the sale of the song to the UN Peacebuilding Fund.