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Your Peace Day Challenge PREPARATION
STANDARDS
HOMEWORK
Background for Teachers:
Jeremy Gilley realized that, in order to bring committed to informing every human being
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about the creation of a Peace Day, he had to be on earth that there is now a day of peace.
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organized. Since the unanimous adoption of Jeremy’s goal now is to ‘institutionalize’ Peace
September 21 as a UN day of global ceasefire Day around the world; he defines this as
and nonviolence, Jeremy’s mission, through ‘the point at which awareness of Peace Day
Peace One Day and the film The Day After Peace, becomes self-generating’. Jeremy’s target for
has been to raise global awareness of the Day, 2012 is to reach approximately 3 billion people
the first stage of this mission being to manifest with the message of Peace Day. Through their
at least one commitment in each UN Member work in this lesson, students throughout the
State – another task requiring a high level of US and around the world can play a genuinely
organization. This was achieved for the first time valuable role in helping to achieve this target.
in 2006. Students may find a strong motivational It is their generation that will make the Day
incentive when being reminded that they are known throughout the world.
working as part of an ever-expanding team,
Purpose of the Lesson:
In this lesson, students have the opportunity to different countries. Resource U will serve as
take an active and valuable role in supporting a guide for this process.
awareness of Peace Day September 21. Students
will be divided into mini-committees representing
various continents and will direct energy to inform
and, ultimately, to generate commitments from
Lesson Objectives:
At the end of this lesson, students should be able to
• Follow through with assigned roles and responsibilities for a citizenship project at their
school for Peace Day
• Using Mini-Action Committees, generate Peace Day commitments in as many countries as
possible
• Explain their participation in a “real life” practical discussion
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