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Global Truce 2012
It would be wonderful if young people become the driving force behind the vision of a united and sustainable world. The Global Truce on Peace Day 2012 provides an opportunity for that to become a reality. Please get involved and let us know your plans!
Jeremy Gilley Background for Teachers:
This lesson provides a simple process for identifying (and selecting from) a series of student-led options for Global Truce 2012 activities, for the class or the whole school, to be announced on Peace Day 2011.
Having established 21 September as an annual day of ceasefire and non-violence, and having led a process that resulted in a 70% reduction in violence in Afghanistan on Peace Day 2008 (see Jeremy’s film The Day After Peace), Jeremy’s next goal is to call for and work towards a day of ceasefire and non- violence on Peace Day 21 September 2012 – a Global Truce. POD hopes this will be the largest reduction in global violence in recorded history, both domestically and internationally. (See Jeremy’s third film Peace One Day Part 3).
POD is asking all sectors of global society to become part of the Global Truce campaign. On Peace Day, 21 September 2011, at our concert in conjunction with the Cultural Olympiad at the O2 Arena London, Peace One
Lesson Aims:
• To identify and agree on a class or whole school activity in support of the Global Truce 2012 campaign, to be announced on Peace Day 2011.
• To learn how to work as part of a team towards a common goal. Learning Outcomes – students should be able to:
• Identify the roles they will play in the organisation, planning and sustaining of an Action Committee.
• Reflect on their responsibility both as individuals and through collective action towards the creation of a more peaceful world.
Day will launch the 365-day countdown to the Global Truce on Peace Day 2012.
But here’s where your school comes in: we’re asking young people in the UK and all over the world to take the lead. We’re inviting anyone holding an event or activity on Peace Day 2011 to use that event to help launch the 365-day countdown and announce what they will be doing on Peace Day 21 September 2012.
We want young people to take ownership of Peace Day and the Global Truce 2012 campaign. They are being asked to participate, to stand alongside other young people in every country of the world and become part of the greatest campaign for peace in recorded history.
Activities can be anything that fires the imagination, (see Resource W2 for a list of suggestions). We would suggest that the theme for Global Truce activities in school is ‘ending bullying’, since bullying is the predominant form of violence in schools the world over.
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