Letter to teachers from Peace One Day Founder, Jeremy Gilley
Dear Friends, Thank you for registering and welcome to the Peace One Day U.S.A. Education Resource.
I am profoundly grateful to Ben and Jerry’s for underwriting the creation of this USA Education Resource, launched in association with Scholastic.
Peace One Day’s objective is to institutionalize Peace Day 21 September, making it a day that is self-sustaining. Through detailed analysis conducted with the support of McKinsey & Company, the Peace One Day 2012 report found that approximately 280 million people in 198 countries were aware of Peace Day 2012 – 4% of the world’s population. The report further estimates that approximately 2% of those people (5.6 million) behaved more peacefully as a result. Following the success of Peace Day 2012, Peace One Day has launched a new theme for 21 September 2013: Who Will You Make Peace With?
This Resource is designed to be used as a tool for teaching young people about peace-related issues all year round, as well as providing ideas and lesson plans to be used on Peace Day itself. With this year’s theme in mind, we have introduced a new Who Will You Make Peace With? lesson for teachers to use on or before Friday 20 September. In the lesson, students are encouraged to think about who they can make peace with on Peace Day or otherwise mark the day with their families and communities.
Please use this feedback form to tell us all about your Peace Day activities after the event. Such information will be valuable to us when measuring levels of awareness on Peace Day 2013.
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. 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 andSpanish). Various DVD editions of The Day After Peace are available to buy from 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 chal- lenge of helping to institutionalize Peace Day. Never before in our history has this sense of unity been more des- perately needed, but never before have we had the technology at our disposal to help us realize it.
To begin with I invite you to read the letter on the opposite page to your class, and watch the first of the three short films introducing this year’s campaign theme Who Will You Make Peace With? The second and third 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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