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Peace
Day 2007
JAPAN
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
 ISHAYA
CITY
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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 KOBE
Minato Junior High School, Kobe
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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NAGASAKI
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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NAGASAKI-KEN
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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OMURA
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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SASEBO
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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SHIZUOKA
Byakko Intl.
Email: hpinfo@byakko.org
Website: www.byakko.org
EVENT :
With
a group of international peace builders gathered at Fuji Sanctuary,
a global peace prayer center, will offer a prayer for the peace
and happiness of each nation on earth, a prayer recited in the language
of each country. With Infinite peace,and infiite love from Fuji
Sanctuary, May Peace Prevail on Earth. |
TAKAI-CHO
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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TOKYO
GPPAC Japan / Peace Boat
Email: gppac@peaceboat.gr.jp
Website: http://www.peaceboat.org/english/index.html
EVENT :
Tokyo
Candle Action: Peace for Lebanon, Palestine and Israel! Peace
for Iraq!
Venue: Meiji Park, Sendagaya,
Tokyo Time: 6pm, September 21
In Tokyo, Peace Boat and GPPAC Japan (a coalition of Japan-based
organizations from the Global Partnership for the Prevention of
Armed Conflict process - http://www.gppac.net) will hold a candle
action for Peace One Day to appeal for peace in Lebanon, Palestine,
Israel and Iraq. Using candles, we will spell out heiwa, the Japanese
word for peace. The event will also feature testimonies by Palestinian
and Lebanese NGO activists, as well as a speech by a Japanese
Middle East specialist; and a performance by Japanese band Kotobuki.
Following September 21, the Lebanese and Palestinian speakers
will embark on a national tour of Japan, speaking at Nagoya, Kyoto,
Osaka, Hiroshima, Fukuoka and Sapporo.
In
the Northeast Asian region, also on the verge of a crisis that
would threaten the peace, we strongly believe that holding regular
events such as this Peace One Day candle action will contribute
to preventing conflict in the region, and can strengthen the international
solidarity needed to realize a peace that does not rely on force,
as expressed in Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution. We look
forward to your participation and hope that this day will help
to save lives.
This
event is organized by GPPAC Japan, and supported by Peace Boat,
Japan Lawyers' International Solidarity Association (JALISA),
WORLD PEACE NOW, Art Network Japan, Palestinian Children's
Campaign, Femin Women's Democracy Club, Amnesty International
Japan, Nonviolent Peace Force Japan, and more.
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 TOKYO
Global
Bridge
Service For Peace - Japan
Contact:
Atsushi Yamada
Email: atsushi@sfpjapan.org
Web: www.ServiceForPeace.org
EVENT :
Charity
Marathon for The Philippines children - Volunteers will run 20 km
in relays in order to build kindergarten in The Philippines. Every
volunteer will gather sponsors who will donate for the project.
In return for their donation, volunteers will run a marathon appealing
global understanding. |
Peace
Day CONTACTS
Service For Peace - Japan
Contact:
Atsushi Yamada
Tokyo, Japan
Email: atsushi@sfpjapan.org
Web: www.ServiceForPeace.org
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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 ARCHIVE
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JAPAN
2005- The Goi Peace Foundation in collaboration with the United
Nations Information Centre in Tokyo helped to coordinate Peace Day
activities in schools throughout Japan. 62 Japanese schools reported
on activities involving more than 25,000 students. Activities ranged
from Peace Assemblies to essay, poster and song contests as well
as observing a minute of silence at noon with the prayer May
Peace Prevail On Earth.
(www.internationaldayofpeace.org/events/2005wpps/japan.htm)
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JAPAN
2005 - In Tokyo, High School students played volleyball and college
students from six Asian nations discussed how to improve historic
resentments between their countries and Japan. Flowers were brought
to the Moyai statue in Shibuya for victims of 9/11 and other tragedies.
In Hiroshima, volunteers displayed an exhibition of 170 peace pictures
drawn by students of elementary, junior and high schools and held
a vigil at the memorial to those killed by the atomic bomb in 1945.
(http://serviceforpeace.org/IDP2005.htm) |
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JAPAN
2005- Vehicles in Tokyo promoted Peace Day.
(http://serviceforpeace.org/IDP2005.htm)
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JAPAN
2005-
Pinwheels
for Peace in Tokyo. (www.pinwheelsforpeace.com) |
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JAPAN
2004-
Kobe Municipal Minato Junior High School was one of the hundreds
of ENO Schools (Environment Online) in 50 countries that planted
trees at 12 Noon for the International Day of Peace as a symbol
for environmental protection and international co-operation in the
field of environmental education, cultural diversity, tolerance
and peace.
(www.edu.joensuu.fi/eno/treeceremony.htm) |
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JAPAN
2003- Under typhoon conditions, 150 volunteers of the Goi Peace
Foundation and their friends gathered at the United Nations Information
Center in Aoyama Tokyo for a Peace Flag ceremony and then, despite
the weather, did a Peace Walk to Yoyogi Park.
(www.internationaldayofpeace.org/events/2003/japan.htm)
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