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Peace
Day 2007
CÔTE D'IVOIRE
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
 ABIDJAN
Service
For Peace
Contact:
Seka Philbert
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Mobile: 225 07648890 Home: 225 24395244
Email: sfp_ivorycoast@yahoo.com
Web: www.ServiceForPeace.org
EVENT :
More
than 200 young people representative of youth organizations will
gather for a Peace conference titled "Let's Create Peace For the
Next Generation" in the town of Abidjan. At the end of the conference
all the invited leaders will sign a document named "Peace Promise."
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 ABIDJAN
Lycee professionnel de Gagnoa
EVENT:
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)
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TIEBISSOU
Service
For Peace
Contact:
Seka Philbert
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Mobile: 225 07648890 Home: 225 24395244
Email: sfp_ivorycoast@yahoo.com
Web: www.ServiceForPeace.org
EVENT :
Service
For Peace will erect in a city called Tiebissou a Peace Pole in
Presence of the Governor, the Mayor of the locality, the UN Representative
and more than 1,000 participants. The ceremony will be essentially
peace messages, songs for peace, comedy for peace. At the end, the
Governor and the Mayor will sign a Peace Declaration. |
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Service
For Peace
Contact:
Seka Philbert
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Mobile: 225 07648890 Home: 225 24395244
Email: sfp_ivorycoast@yahoo.com
Web: www.ServiceForPeace.org
EVENT :
Volunteers
will travel to a village of 200 people for an educational campaign.
They will go house to house to talk about the importance of preserving
peace. The volunteers will have as materials peace gadgets and
some brochures. They will do it for 8 hours and at the end, meet
the chief of the village to sign a "Peace Declaration."
Volunteers
will collect more than 40,000 peace messages and signatures from
institutions, VIPs, workers, students, the unemployed, and everybody
in the population who can write or express his/her idea about
Peace. The following day these messages will be given to the President,
the Prime Minister and the local representative of the UN General
Secretary.
Partner
Organizations: UNOCI, CERAP, Scouts, Red Cross, UNDP, UNESCO,
MTN, MOOV
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PEACE
DAY ARCHIVE
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CÔTE
D'IVOIRE
2005- The
Côte D’Ivoire chapter of Service For Peace held a conference
on Peace and Social Cohabitation through our differences with the
help of 162 volunteers including the UN local office, UNESCO, CERAP
and National Television and Radio. All wanted to work with Service
For Peace to avoid the catastrophic conflicts that other parts of
Africa have endured.(http://serviceforpeace.org/IDP2005.htm) |
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CÔTE
D'IVOIRE
2005- Representatives
from UNOCI (United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire) along with
local dignitaries and performers gather to celebrate the International
Day of Peace in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. (UNOCI Photo/Ky Chung)
(www.un.org/Depts/dpko/photos/unoci/unoci20.htm) |
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CÔTE
D'IVOIRE
2005- Ivorian
reggae star Alpha Blondy becomes UNOCI's first Musician for Peace
and accepts his nomination at a ceremony marking the fourth International
Day of Peace. Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. (UNOCI Photo/Ky Chung)
(www.un.org/Depts/dpko/photos/unoci/unoci21.htm) |
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Peace
Day CONTACTS
Service For Peace
Contact:
Seka Philbert
Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Mobile: 225 07648890 Home: 225 24395244
Email: sfp_ivorycoast@yahoo.com
Web: www.ServiceForPeace.org
Côte
d'Ivoire
Peace Day
SUPPORTERS
- Service
For Peace - Côte d'Ivoire
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.)
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a Peace Day event? Have a Peace Day photo to share?
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