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All United Nations member countries agreed to celebrate September 21, The International Day of Peace as a Global Ceasefire and Day of Peace & Nonviolence in our homes, our communities and between nations. Peace Day has been a focal point for community-uniting and peace-inspiring events since its inception in 1981. Together we can create a more peaceful, just and sustainable world, one heart, one family, one community at a time. Join the Countdown To Peace and help inspire your community to create humanity's first day of peace, ever.

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

  • Ask your favorite organization, group or religious institution to support the International Day of Peace
  • Plan or attend a Peace Day Event in your community (scheduled events include concerts, parades, marches, fasts, conferences, festivals, gatherings, service projects, ceremonies, children's activities such as peace art & essay contests and pinwheels for peace, Peace Day parties and peace vigils)
  • Ask your Mayor, City Council, Governor and Head of State to declare a Proclamation of Peace
  • Print out Flyers, Posters and other Resources

2006 PLANS

LIENZ
Public Library of Lienz
Email: buechereiatosttirol.net
Web: http://www.stadtbuecherei-lienz.at
EVENT :  We asked people from the surroundingto write poems about peace and we put them in big letters on the wall in our hospital with copies to give abway to patients and visitors and the stuff of the hospital. They can also be read on the homepage of the library.
SALZBURG
Österreichisches Netzwerk für Frieden und Gewaltfreiheit Salzburg
Email: friedensnetzwerk@gmail.org
Web: www.friedensnetzwerk.org
EVENT :  International Day of Peace event at the UNESCO Schule - St. Ursula (PDF Flyer - 65K)
This year we have a 3rd PeacePole , which was planted at the "St. Ursula" UNESCO highschool, which will also be the location for the 2006 IDP celebration. We will start in the afternoon of 21st September with a painting actvitiy. The pictures will be taken to Africa lateron and exchanged there with paintings of African children and youth. The ÖNB (Austrian Nature Society) will feature an information campaign for schools. Then there will be a drumming circle around the Peace Pole and a Buddhist going meditation towards the ceremony. Main topics of the celebration: After all the speaches and greeting words of the various representatives there will be a mandala ceremony with the flags from all nations of the world. Then music and texts, a sketch, songs and dances, meditation and silent moments etc. As we celebrate at a school campus some classes- led by their teachers- will add their dances and songs, perhaps also a theatre performance with peace as the subject. Finally there will be a solidary Agape with bread and pure water.
STEYR
Service for Peace - Youth Club Steyr
Email: bogdan4peace@gmx.at
EVENT :  Workshops in different youth clubs, schools will be organized where people can create their peace candle with their message of peace. For each candle they will donate money for projects in Palestine. On Sept. 21st there will be a Candlelight Demonstration for Peace in the center Steyr where everyone can light his peace candle, music, signing a peace commitment,
Partner Organizations: About 5 Youth Clubs, Youth groups of churches, IRFF Austria and Palestine, IIFWP Austria, IRFF
VIENNA
Culture of Peace Galleria / Art Miles Mural Project
Email: Ftawfilis@aol.com
Tel: 43 699 812 648 14
Web: www.artmiles.org
EVENT :  painting and exhibiting murals in the gallery with a multicultural neighborhood and students from the Informatik Schule.
VIENNA
United Nations Information Service, Vienna: Like in previous years, we will observe the International Peace Day on 21 September 2006 with an event involving NGOs and Youth, in order to raise awareness on this day in our client countries Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and the Slovak Republic. Details on the event will be given at a later stage. www.unis.unvienna.org
More Peace One Day Committments: http://www.peaceoneday.org/page/unite
VIENNA
Yoga in Daily Life
Group size: 100
Contact person: Dr. Radha
Phone: 004317986344
Email: vienna@yogaindailylife.org
Website: www.yogaindailylife.org
IDP Vigil :  24 hour facility for peace-meditation in our "Yoga in Daily Life Center", public event "Yoga in Daily Life for World Peace" & World Peace Prayer in 1030 Vienna, Schweizer Garten, guided by His Holiness Mahamandaleshwar Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda.
(for more IDP Vigils see: www.IDPvigil.com)
VIENNA
KMSI WIEN
One of the hundreds of ENO Schools (Environment Online) that will plant trees for the International Day of Peace as a symbol for environmental protection, international co-operation, cultural diversity, tolerance and peace. (http://eno.joensuu.fi/treeceremony.htm)

Peace Day SUPPORTERS

Please ask your favorite group, organization or religious institution to support
The International Day of Peace

(*The opinions of these organizations are their own.
Pathways To Peace and The International Day of Peace NGO Committee at the UN
do not necessarily support the views expressed by these organizations
that support the International Day of Peace.)

PEACE DAY CELEBRATIONS

AUSTRIA
2005- In Salzburg a flag ceremony was held at the St. Elisabeth Catholic Church with 70-80 participants who shared their wishes for peace. A peace pole was given to the Mayor to be planted in Mirabelle Garden, "the" center of Salzburg and the town hall.
(www.internationaldayofpeace.org/events/2005wpps/austria.htm)
AUSTRIA
2005- The Austrian peace organisation "Peace Power Plant" inaguarated ongoing Peace Dialogues in a Catholic Seminar House in Austria, on the International Day of Peace. After a Peace Pole planting ceremony covered by Austrian TV, guests joined in prayer and songs for peace.
(www.internationaldayofpeace.org/events/2003/austria.htm)
VIENNA, AUSTRIA
2005- UNIS Vienna, in cooperation with the Austrian Network for Peace and Non-Violence, organized a Peace Day event in the colourful memorial plaza of the Vienna International Centre. 100 children of50 different nations from seven local and international schools in Vienna sang songs of peace, rang the Peace Bell and observed the Minute of Silence at Noon.
(www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/events/2005/ev20052109.html)
VIENNA, AUSTRIA
2004- UNIS Vienna, partnered with Jane Goodall Institute, VIER PFOTEN and Global 2000, to organize a colourful event in the Museums-Quartier, including children's craft activites such as creating peace buttons, coloring pages with "peace" in the six official UN languages, creating pictorial peace messages for children in Israel/Palestine and South Africa, and cultural entertainment such as dancers from Zimbabwe. More than 300 children and their families participated.
(www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/en/events/2004/ev20040917.html)
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PEACE DAY RESOURCES

  • World Peace Prayer Society Flyer in German (PDF 268K )

 

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