Letter to teachers from Peace One Day Founder, Jeremy Gilley
Dear Friends Thank you for registering and welcome to the Peace One Day Global Education Resource English Language edition.
I am profoundly grateful to Skype for underwriting the creation of this Global Education Resource, available in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, Russian and Spanish. Skype’s free software is an exciting facilitator towards intercultural cooperation, in preparation for, and on Peace Day 21 September (see Lesson 4F inside).
Peace One Day’s overall Objective is to ‘institutionalise’ Peace Day, 21 September – to make the day self-sustaining. For Peace Day 21 September 2012, Peace One Day is calling for and working towards a day of ceasefire and non-violence - a Global Truce. We hope this will be the largest reduction in global violence in recorded history, both domestically and internationally, but we cannot do it alone. We are reaching out to all sectors of society to get involved and, most importantly, to young people and teachers around the world. You and your students have a key role to play.
This edition contains a brand new lesson - Global Truce 2012 (Lesson 5A), that provides a simple process for identifying (and selecting from) a serieces of student-led options for Global Truce 2012 activities, for the class or the whole school. If you’re reading this before Peace Day 2011, you can use that date to help launch the 365-day countdown to the Global Truce on Peace Day 2012.
Please show your students my film The Day After Peace ; this is the most concise and engaging way for young people, indeed anyone, to understand what Peace One Day is all about. The film is recommended as a sound basis for other work with this resource. The 32-minute classroom-ready version is now available to watch free online at
www.peaceoneday.org. The online film is in English and there are subtitled versions in the remaining five official languages of the United Nations (Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, Russian and Spanish). Various DVD editions of The Day After Peace School Edition DVD, available to purchase via the Peace One Day Shop.
We hope that these materials will inspire and empower you and your students to join us and take on the challenge of helping to establish a Global Truce on Peace Day 2012. Never before in our history has this sense of unity been more desperately needed, but never before have we had the technology at our disposal that can enable us to bring it about.
Please decide how you will mark Peace Day in your school or local community, please log your commitment in advance on
www.peaceoneday.org and please ask others to do the same. To begin with, I invite you to read the letter on the opposite page to your class and show them the first of the short videos underneath, which is a message from me. The second and third short videos can be used to build support amongst colleagues.
Finally, my thanks to you for your support. By working together there will be Peace One Day. In peace Jeremy
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