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Peace
Day 2007
CYPRUS
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
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.)
NICOSIA
Holy Cross Catholic Church
Group size: Parish
Contact person: Fr. Umberto Barato ofm, Parish Priest
Phone: +357 22 662132
Email: holcross@logos.cy.net
Website: www.cypruscatholicchurch.org
IDP VIGIL: On 21/9, we will dedicate our daily hour of Eucharistic
adoration (5-6 pm.)to this purpose.
(for more IDP Vigils see: www.IDPvigil.com)
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 NICOSIA
PINWHEELS
FOR PEACE
confirmed location.
More than 1350 schools and groups around the world participated last
year in the Pinwheels For Peace program to celebrate Peace Day, creating
and displaying 1/2 million pinwheels for peace to inspire their communities
to imagine whirled peace - This year many more will participate. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com)
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Future
Worlds Center; Nicosia: What we are planning to do on 21 September:
The main idea behind the International Peace Day is that everybody
can make a contribution to peace, even if it seems to be just a trivial
one. Or, as Gandhi said: “You have to be the change you wish to see
in the world.”
Writing for Peace
Children will write letters expressing both their contribution to
and their desire for peace. They will either address these letters
to politicians and decision-makers worldwide or to other children
living in conflict areas around the world such as Lebanon, Israel/Palestine,
Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Sri Lanka, Congo or Colombia. We will
collect the letters and endeavour that they reach their addressees.
The letters for politicians and decision-makers will be sent directly
to their respective addresses. The letters to children in conflict
areas will be delivered to relevant organizations and personal contacts
in those countries. We will ask these organizations and friends to
redistribute the letters to children in their environment and thereby
hopefully establish new international pen-pal-ships.
Flying for Peace
Children will write or draw their visions of peace which will be attached
to white balloons filled with helium. After all the visions expressed
through short texts, poems, stories or drawings being put on paper,
we will send up the balloons in one single moment and they will fly
into the sky of Cyprus and the Mediterranean.
Lighting for Peace
On the street connecting both parts of divided Nicosia, we will draw
a big map of the world. As a sign of commemoration and sympathy, everybody
present will be invited to light a candle and put it on the map of
the world, symbolizing the global suffering from violence and the
common struggle for peace.
Drawing for Peace
On the same street, with coloured chalk, we will altogether draw peace
flags (rainbow flags) with the word “peace” in different languages.
Celebrating Peace with all senses
Drinks, snacks and music will be provided in order to ensure a peace
celebration for all senses.
Watching the Struggle for Peace
We are also planning to screen the award-winning documentary “Peace
One Day” by British director Jeremy Gilley. “Peace One Day” is the
story of one man’s attempts to persuade the global community via the
United Nations to officially sanction a global ceasefire day. The
documentary charts the remarkable 6-year journey of the filmmaker
as he meets heads of state, Nobel Peace Laureates, aid agencies, freedom
fighters, media moguls, the innocent victims of war and, eventually,
everyone who was anyone at the UN. Contact information: Kerstin Wittig,
Reinhard Eckert Future Worlds Center (legal reg.: Cyprus Neuroscience
and Technology Institute) 5, Promitheos, office 9 1065 Nicosia - Cyprus
Tel: +357 22873820 Fax:+357 22873821 E-Mail: kerstin@tech4peace.org,
reinhard@tech4peace.org Web: www.cnti.org.cy, www.tech4peace.org,
www.y2p.org
More Peace One Day Committments:
http://www.peaceoneday.org/page/unite |
The
United Association of Cyprus: The UN Association of Cyprus will
call on its members to observe one minute’s silence for this day.
More Peace One Day Committments:
http://www.peaceoneday.org/page/unite
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