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Peace Day 2007
SOMALIA

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 CONTACTS

GAP UNITED FOR PEACE (Groups of Action toward Peace)
Contact: Alicia Quaini - Friends of the United Nations
10630 SW 99 Terrace, Miami, FL, 33176
USA (305) 270 7817, UNRights@aol.com

www.internationaldayofpeace.org/events/GAPs

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.)

2006 PLANS

GAROWE
African Regional Youth Initiative (ARYI)
Email: aryi.somalia@gmail.com
Tel: +2525741764
Web: www.africaninitiative.org/af
1. Holding a peace forum for senior government officials led by the city mayor, heads of UN agencies, International community, traditional leaders.
2. Peace March & rally
3. Football match
4. Tree plantation
GALKAYO
Somali Peace & Development Organization (SPDO)
Email: spdo.somalia@hotmail.com
www.sompdo.org
1. Printing of 500 pcs of papers, slogans, fliers, stickers & flowers materials promoting culture of peace.
2. Peace match across the streets of Galkayo by hundreds of students, youth organizations & women groups, the government officials and elders presenting their sense for peace and unity.
3. Peace cup - afternoon football matches South Vs North Galkayo.
4. Evening dinner + dramas & speeches about peace by music bands.
5. Live debates & talk show productions on radios for peace.
GALKAYO
Mudug Youth Organizations Umbrella (Dud-Mudug)
Email: dudmudug@yahoo.com
Tel: 2525795506
1. holding peace rally in Galkayo, arranging 700 youth members, with banners, slogans and so on.
2. holding sports march between south and North
3. hold evening ceremony .
HARGEISA
GAVO (General assistance and volunteers organization)
Group size: 80
Contact person: FarhanAdam Haibe
Phone: 00252 2 427616
Email: gavo-som@hotmail.com
Website: gavosom.tk
Drama performance, public speeches and slogans, distribution of t-shirts with peace messages and adrress issues on peace through media
MOGADISHU
Iftin School, Mogadishu
EVENT: Some 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)
WAAJID
World Vision
Contact: Mohamed Ali taruuri
Email: taruuri1@yahoo.com
Tel: 002521522257
www.wvi.org
1. We with children,youth,women groups,local NGOs and the elders of the town should walk on the streets with peaceful demonstration written with words of peace is our live, peace has feeding breasts and other written slogans
2. we will organize 100 children over show of bicycle competition in the center of the town
3. organize youth drama
4. football match between the two teams of alshabaab and Xidigaha.
Cade School
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)

Peace Day ARCHIVE

SOMALIA
2005- GAP-Somalia, Somali Civil society Forum and Baidoa Women Development Network helped coordinate a parade, lectures, debates and a drama show for the International Day of Peace and a culture of peace.
(www.internationaldayofpeace.org/events/GAPs/somalia.htm)
SOMALIA
2005- 300 people participated in the Peace Day observance in Baidoa, coordinated by GAP-Somalia and Bay women Net work and Civil society forum. The day's events included a Minute of Silence for peace, prayers, lectures, a drama show and singing for peace.
(www.internationaldayofpeace.org/events/GAPs/somalia.htm)
Mogadishu, SOMALIA
2005- UNDP-Somalia and MOGADISHU UNIVERSITY in collaboration with Somali civil Society organizations in Mogadishu organized a peace rally in the Hotel Shamow. MU president Dr. Ali Sheikh gave an emotional speech emphasizing the suffering of the people of Somalia and their need for durable peace, calling for peace education all over Somalia.
(www.internationaldayofpeace.org/events/GAPs/somalia.htm)

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