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www.peaceoneday.org to inspire others. By working together there will be Peace One Day
One Person
1
One Powerful Idea
Where do most great ideas come from? They come from the minds of ordinary people like you who decide that
they want to see some great changes happen.
Imagine every individual in the world celebrating peace on the same day, a day of global unity. Ideas as vast
as this seem almost unimaginable at first. If an idea is powerful enough, others start to believe in it; then it
spreads and becomes real.
Read more below about Jeremy and Peace One Day’s journey, and then think about what ideas you might have
for Peace Day.
Where It All Be
gan
In September, 1999, a young British filmmaker the world to build the case for creating
named Jeremy Gilley launched the film project such a day.
Peace One Day.
Meetings were held with global figures such
This was the beginning of an experiment as then United Nations Secretary-General Kofi
to find out whether he could persuade the Annan and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, as
governments of our world to create the well as individuals whose lives had been
first-ever global ceasefire/nonviolence day profoundly affected by violent conflict.
with a fixed calendar date – Peace Day. On September 7, 2001, Jeremy achieved
his goal.
As a filmmaker he would document the entire
process, and for the next two years he traveled
y
The His
tory of Pea
ce Da
The original UN International Day of Peace was Individuals can achieve great things, and Jeremy‘s
created by Costa Rica in 1981; however, the date idea had been accepted by all the countries that
of the Day moved from year to year. made up the United Nations (189 at that time).
In September 2001, Jeremy and a group of They adopted a Resolution, a document that
friends achieved the first stage of their goal at asks every individual on earth to observe and
the UN General Assembly in New York by giving commemorate one day of peace every year. The
the International Day of Peace a fixed date date chosen was …
and making it a day of global ceasefire
and nonviolence.
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