International Peace Day

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1 What Will YOU Do On This September 21?
2 What Did YOU Do On This September 21?
3 How, Where, When
4 Get Involved
5 Tools
6 Peace Day Reminders of 2006
7 Peace One Day

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What Will YOU Do On This September 21?

Check out The Human Arrows Project and join in!

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What Did YOU Do On This September 21?

Share with everyone what you and your JB/Chapter did on Peace One Day 2008 by adding your activity to the page International Peace Day 2008.

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How, Where, When

What will you do?

In 1981, the United Nations proclaimed the third Tuesday of September as an International Day of Peace, and it was requested that it shall be devoted to commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and peoples.

Peace One Day is a movement formed in 1999 by British director Jeremy Gilley as a film project to publicise and implement an international ceasefire day on one fixed date every year. His idea was as an adaptation to the already existing International Day of Peace, established by the United Nations in 1981. He put all his energy during two years in order to gain active support from all sectors of society, from governments, from individuals, from famous personalities, etc.

In 2002, it was decided to set the UN International Day of Peace on a fixed date, the 21st of September, and all member states, organisations of the United Nations system, regional and non-governmental organisations and individuals are supposed to commemorate, in an appropriate manner, the International Day of Peace. (UN declaration on Peace One Day)

Through the last 2 years the International Peace Day was promoted in CISV a lot and more then 50 activities in total have taken place in CISV chapters all over the world since Peace Day was introduced in our organization. Activities have reached from distributing fliers, lighting candles to public showings of the Peace One Day movie and Peace Day Music festivals.

With CISV participating in this global event, we will not only help promoting the UN International Day of Peace, but it also work towards CISV’s strategic objectives:

Strengthen our relationships with UNESCO:
- Work with National UNESCO Branches
- Promote a UN recognized day

Promote CISV:
- Externally through media coverage
- To other organizations we’re working with

Increase cooperation with other like-minded organisations

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Get Involved

So if...

You are interested in this project
You are willing to plan some activities for September 21st, 2008
You are already doing something with your CISV Chapter
You find this idea interesting but the project could be improved

Write to peaceday@ijb.cisv.org

We, the Peace Day Taskforce, are a group of people from CISV who have been working on the project during the last 2 years. We can provide you with help, more information or contact to other countries that are doing activities. Feel free to write us at the email adress above. We will be very happy to hear from you!

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Tools

In order to help the development of some activities you might be willing to plan, we have in the past years collected reports, pictures and useful links that can help you and your chapters to get ideas and organize an activity. So go check them out!

Non exhaustive list of events to set on the UN International Peace Day
- Non exhaustive list

List of Activities in the past years

Videos
- Promotion Video made on the AIM 06
- Video of last year's activities

Download the international flier that has been made by the Peace Day Taskforce this year. We want to encourage you to distribute this flier in you chapter, school, city... It is available different languages. If you can't find your language feel free to translate the text and send it to us. We will make a new version in your language, put it up here and send it to you!
- English front, back
- Danish front, back
- Spanish front, back
- German front, back