50 facts :
- Jeremy Gilley is the founder of peace on day
- Peace One day was founded in September 1999
- The charity promotes the idea of one day a year free of conflict and war
- The UN had already declared the third Tuesday of September the international day of peace
- To raise public awareness of Peace One Day, celebrities and musicians gather together for large concerts on Peace Day.
- By 2007 - 100 million people have been active on Peace Day (source UNDPI).
- Peace Day 2007 - Peace One Day ambassador Jude Law and founder Jeremy Gilley traveled to Afghanistan to spearhead a campaign
- that has resulted in 4.5 million children being vaccinated against polio in previously unreachable areas.
- Peace Day 2008 - UN Department of Safety and Security recorded a 70% reduction in violent incidents in Afghanistan on Peace Day.
- Peace Day 2010 - WHO/UNICEF/Afghan Ministry of Public Health vaccinated over 50,000 children and women in 23 locations against all vaccine-preventable diseases.
- They also launched a nationwide polio campaign targeting 8 million children across Afghanistan.
- Being founded by a filmmaker, documentary was always going to feature strongly in Peace One Day’s plans for peace.
- Jeremy Gilley is an actor turned filmmaker, who in the late 1990s became preoccupied with questions about the fundamental nature of humanity and the issue of peace.
- He decided to explore these through the medium of film, and specifically, to create a documentary following his campaign to establish an annual day of ceasefire and non violence.
- In 1999, Jeremy founded Peace One Day, a non-profit organisation
- 2001 Peace One Day’s efforts were rewarded when the member states of the United Nations unanimously adopted the first ever day of global ceasefire and non-violence on 21 September annually – Peace Day.
- Peace One Day partnered with Skype to develop the Peace One Day Global Education Resource, which was available in all the six official languages of the UN.
- Innocent created a limited edition Peace One Day smoothie ‘Peaches and Raspberries’ on sale from late August 2010 to late October 2010
- Peace One Day holds its annual concert in Paris, at Le Zenith. The show features Patti Smith, Youssou Ndour, Charlie Winston, -M-, Yodelice, Ayo, and Vanessa Paradis.
- Peace One Day Part Three, Jeremy Gilley’s most recent documentary produced with Jude Law receives its premiere broadcasts on BBC World to 200 countries, with a reach of 306 million homes.
- In the year of the first-ever FIFA World Cup held in Africa, over 3,000 One Day One Goal matches took place in all 192 UN member states, the most successful year to date. Many of these were Unity Matches, which support peace-building and strengthen communities.
- D&AD is introducing a White Pencil to mark its 50th anniversary in 2012. The D&AD White Pencil will award the power of creative communications to effect change for good.
- he D&AD White Pencil is about harnessing the power of creativity to make a real difference in the world around us.
- It’s about demonstrating the hidden potential of creative communication to make a real difference and realise our community’s ability to lend huge impact and strength to the campaigning voices of others, bringing their messages and demands for change to the widest and most powerful audience.”
- The tipping point of awareness that allows a day to become ‘institutionalised’ in the calendar is believed to be roughly 20% of the world’s population
- If POD can generate that level of engagement around the day, it will become self-sustaining.
- But POD is aiming high: the challenge is to help them reach 3 billion people with the message of Peace Day by September 21 2012.
- For Peace Day 2012, Peace One Day is calling for and working towards a Global Truce - a day of ceasefire and non-violence observed by all sectors of society globally.
- POD is officially launching the 365-day countdown to the Global Truce at our first concert in conjunction with the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad at the O2 Arena London on Peace Day 21 September 2011.
- Qualitative and quantitative data will be gathered via individuals/grassroots organisations (with a focus on young people/schools), online registrants via peaceoneday.org and social media.
- When Jeremy Gilley first began his Peace One Day movement, he and his mates would hold fundraising gigs and poetry readings in west London pubs and town halls for "a couple of hundred quid here and there"
- A major part of the education resources are the "Three Steps to Peace One Day",[13] which areDecide what you will do to make peace on 21 September, Log your Peace Day commitment at www.peaceoneday.org,Tell others around the world and ask them to complete the Three Steps
- The first documentary Peace One Day (2004) shows the real-life results of Peace Day 21 September around the world, including life-saving initiatives by leading humanitarian organizations.
- The film was used to encourage the members of the United Nations General Assembly to adopt the 21st of September as the day of global ceasefire and nonviolence, and includes footage of Kofi Annan, the Dalai Lama, Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, and Alan Rickman.
- Gilley completed a second feature documentary, The Day After Peace, in 2008. The film includes footage of the visit to Afghanistan by Jeremy and Jude Law
- n 2010, Gilley completed a third feature documentary, entitled Peace One Day Part Three. Produced by Gilley and Jude Law, it received its premiere broadcasts on 18/19 September 2010 on BBC World, with a reach of 306 million households in over 200 countries.
- 011 - on its 30th anniversary - the UN Peace Day’s theme is “Peace and Democracy: make your voice heard”. Global Peace Day events and celebrations will be held on September 21st (as well as the week prior and following 9-21).
- Each year Peace organizations around the world offer cultural events that include School Activities, Music Concerts, Peace Day Comedy, Prayer Vigils, Peace Doves, live internet streaming video and more
- Peace One Day UK Citizenship Resource aims to engage young people aged 11-16 with issues related to peace, non-violence and inter-cultural co-operation and is available free online.
- n May 2006, the Peace One Day Citizenship Resource Pack was launched after conversations with over 30,000 young people and teachers. In 2007, a second edition of the Citizenship Resource Pack was made available to every secondary school in the UK.
- Peace is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict.
- Commonly understood as the absence of hostility, peace also suggests the existence of healthy or newly healed interpersonal or international relationships, prosperity in matters of social or economic welfare, the establishment of equality, and a working political order that serves the true interests of all.
- In international relations, peacetime is not only the absence of war or conflict, but also the presence of cultural and economic understanding and unit
- A peace movement is a social movement that seeks to achieve ideals such as the ending of a particular war (or all wars), minimize inter-human violence in a particular place or type of situation, often linked to the goal of achieving world peace.
- peace is the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group ofnations, or the world.
- peace is an agreement or treaty betweenwarring or antagonistic nations, groups, etc., to endhostilities and abstain from further fighting or antagonism:
- peace is a state of mutual harmony between people or groups,especially in personal relations
- peace he normal freedom from civil commotion and violence of acommunity; public order and security
50 quotes :
- "Young people are absolutely at the heart of Peace One Day’s journey"
- "Young people effectively realise that wherever they are in the world, whichever country in the world, a young person can become part of this day because bullying is violence,"
- "If we can create a day where young people are involved in a very real and tangible way, it’s massive, it’s life-saving stuff! I encourage anyone who is reading this article to log on to the free education materials and use them."
- Young people need tools to resolve their own conflicts and also to be able to think about the bigger global situation
- We’re calling for and working towards a global ceasefire on Peace Day 21 September 2012. We hope to see a reduction in violence on that day on a scale never seen before. We have a very clear strategy. There’ll be a formal press announcement in the coming days.”
- We have to realise the day that we created. Anything other than a global ceasefire would be shying away from the heart of it. The other aspect of this next phase is to institutionalise Peace Day around the world. We’re aiming to reach 3 billion people with the message of Peace Day by September 2012. The two strands go hand in hand – institutionalization and the global ceasefire on Peace Day 2012 – the one fuels the other.”
- We need to support the governments of the world to create the world we want and I also think we need to empower the UN so that the secretariat, the people who work day in and day out, know that the people are behind them.
- We could have a beautiful peaceful world on the 21st of September each year if everyone makes a committment to do something. It doesn't matter how big or small, as long as you say to yourself, "It's peace day today, one day, because of me and my commitment, our world will be united!"
- When you build a house, you start with one brick. If we want to build peace, we should start with one day. And that day has arrived.
- Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Einstein - Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Buddha - More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations.” -- Kofi Annan
- If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother Teresa - Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by
which we arrive at that goal. - We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.
Martin Luther King, Jr. - We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
Dalai Lama - Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama - The global work of the United Nations is not without reason compared to that of a family -- striving for a common goal in concert with all members for a better future.
- Peace is the marriage of the people and the planet, with all attendant vows.
- There is no time left for anything but to make peacework a dimension of our every waking activity.
- The international day of peace is meant to be a day of global cease fire, when all countriues and all people stop all hostilities for the entire day. and it is a day on which people around the world observe a minute of silence at 12 noon time
- It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
- I have seen war, i have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen the dead in mud. I have seen cities destoryed. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war
- It is not enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it and it isnt enough to believe in it. One must work at it
- If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
- Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
-- Yehudi Menuhin - The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
- If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.
John Lennon - Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.
- “From this vision of the role of the United Nations in the next century flow three key priorities for the future: eradicating poverty, preventing conflict and promoting democracy.”
-– Kofi Annan - "There had to be work on development issues such as drugs and crime otherwise it would not be possible to have a sustainable peace. Ceasefires which were a message of hope to people, were a temporary solution which offered the time and space for an enduring peace to be negotiated and implemented
- When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere
- The United Nations, whose membership comprises almost all the states in the world, is founded on the principle of the equal worth of every human being.”
- Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
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