What will you do to make peace on September 21? Please log your commitment on
www.peaceoneday.org to inspire others. By working together there will be Peace One Day
One Person
2
One Powerful Idea
You Are Impor
tant
The film The Day After Peace, along with That‘s where you come in, because your ideas
he activities and projects in this resource, and efforts will make a real difference. Start by
will help you think about the power of peace considering this important statement, and decide
and nonviolence as a force in the world and what you think it really tells us:
help you decide what your commitment can be
to Peace Day.
“Y
ou ha
ve proved tha
t individuals
Jeremy is an individual with a powerful idea,
can make a difference, and
and he would be the first to say that the
idea can only work, can only mean anything, if
if ea
ch of us does our bit
,
the individual believes in it and colle
ctivel
y we will make a
makes a commitment to take part in
major contribution.”
the Day.
UN then Secretary-General Kofi Annan, from a filmed meeting with Jeremy Gilley
Pea
ce One Da
y Now
After the Member States of the UN unanimously awareness of the Peace Day. In 2007, over 100
adopted Peace Day, the struggle continued. million people (source UN) were active on Peace
As the years passed, not a single ceasefire Day, in 200 countries; there were lifesaving
took place. initiatives in 14 countries and over 80 activities in
Afghanistan alone.
Jeremy Gilley‘s second film, The Day After Peace,
takes the journey full circle. With 1.4 million children Jeremy‘s goal now is to ‘institutionalize‘ Peace
vaccinated against polio in Afghanistan on Peace Day around the world; this means ‘the point
Day 2007, the case was closed: the Day works, when awareness of Peace Day becomes
the Day saves lives. self-generating‘. Jeremy‘s target for 2012 is to
reach approximately 3 billion people with the
Now more than ever before, the day of global
message of Peace Day. You can play an important
ceasefire and nonviolence provides a focus for
part in this process.
individuals who wish to become active in the
peace process. It is your generation that will make Peace
Day known throughout the world. Peace One
Jeremy Gilley and Peace One Day have embarked
Day is a growing nonprofit organization. It
upon a journey to inform the people of the
is impartial and independent of any
world of the Day‘s existence. Peace One Day
government, political persuasion, corporation, or
continues on its journey to manifest lifesaving
religious creed.
activity across the world and raise even greater
The Pea
ce One Da
y Obje
ctives
tions of
•
To raise gl
obal a
wareness of Pea
ce Da
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al organiza
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To engage all se
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, including governments, organiza
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tem, re
gional and nongovernment ctical manifes
tation
the United Na
tions s
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individuals in observ
ance of September 21, through the pra
ccordance with UN GA Resolution 55/282,
of nonviolence and ceasefire in ace Da
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