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Hi! My name is Ulrik, and this is my student blog. My posts will be based on tasks and subjects given to the class by my English teacher Ann. I am currently in my third year at Sandvika High School, Norway.

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Peace One Day

Jeremey Gilley is an actor, a filmmaker, and the founder of Peace One Day. A non-profit organisation that wants to make, well, peace in the world. We were lucky enough to have a Skype meeting with him in our class, where he told us about the project.

Peace One Day was founded in 1999, with the idea of having one day of non-violence, ceasefire around the world. Gilley sat down with many powerful people, such as Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela and the UN-Secretary Kofi Annan, and they made a resolution for the UN. It was presented in 2001 by Great Britain and Costa Rica in the UN, and was adopted. The 21 of September would be the official Peace day.
The first years, nothing major happened with peace day. But in 2007 a ceasefire was accepted for one day in Afghanistan, and the Taliban agreed not intervene when the UN and the Afghan government gave 1,4 million children polio-vaccination, in areas normally unreachable due to the war.
This year, more than 600million people was aware of Peace-day. And what Gilley said, was that peace day is not only about war, but also about your home, and your personal life. Surveys reveal that when you know about peace day, you will behave less violent on that day. Peace day has become a great international event, and in 2016 Gilley think 3 billion people will be aware of the day. If people think of peace, it will be peace!

5 comments:

  1. I hope he is right and that 3 billion people are aware of this in 2016. Writing about it like this might raise the awareness, at least in Norway. Would be interesting to find out how many Norwegians know about this initiative! We will find out next 21st of September I assume!

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  2. I agree! in order for the wrold to be a better place there needs to be more peace, do you think there will be?

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  3. I think this is a great thing it should happen, peace would really help solve things in this world.
    http://kidblog.org/WorldAffairs2013-2014/author/a6a35aef-d27a-4fce-a925-8cfa405c3a45/

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  4. Wow that is so cool that you got to meet him thru skype as whole class!

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  5. That pretty cool that you got to talk to him.

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