Peace One Day launches in the USA
By Jeremy Gilley, Founder of Peace One Day
I’m a filmmaker, so I decided to document my journey – traveling the world and carrying my film camera with me. In 2001, after trips to countless countries, and hours upon hours of meetings, the United Nations took serious action. Every member state of the UN adopted September 21st as an annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence. The UN resolution asks citizens of our global community — governments, organizations, and individuals like you and me — to mark September 21st, Peace Day, each year.
Peace One Day (POD), the organization that I started 10 years ago, is doing lots of things to help people mark Peace Day in any way they can — through education, music, film, sports, the web, and more. Why? Well, if we can unite the world on September 21st, then maybe in the future things will change. Communication and cooperation between countries and cultures is the key to humanity’s survival. Marking Peace Day and taking it seriously is the first step.
I’ve been working around the world to spread the word about Peace Day and now I’m bringing that message with me to the United States. Part of POD’s mission entails using education to empower young people to take action toward a more peaceful world, and to understand that they can make difference. That’s why we created an educational curriculum that will eventually be brought to schools across the globe. We started by distributing the educational materials – to be used along with my documentary The Day After Peace – to every school in the UK. Now, we’re bringing those materials to the US.
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