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Peace Day 2007
SWITZERLAND

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

BERN
swisspeace
Group size: 42
Contact person: Cordelia Oppliger
Email: cordelia.oppliger@swisspeace.ch
Website: www.swisspeace.org
IDP Vigil :  We have a screening of the film “Spin Giri – The White Beards”. It documents the integration of traditional structures into the state-building process in Afghanistan and explains the functioning of the Tribal Liaison Office, a project initiated and established by swisspeace and the Heinrich Boell Foundation.
(for more IDP Vigils see: www.IDPvigil.com)
BERN
swisspeace
Group size: 40
Contact person: Ellen Bernhard
Email: ellen.bernhard@swisspeace.ch
Website: www.swisspeace.org
IDP Vigil :  Dokumentarfilm „Spin Giri – Die weissen Bärte“ Der lange Weg zum Frieden in Afghanistan Einladung zur Filmvorführung anlässlich des Internationalen Tag des Friedens 21. September 2006, 19.30 Uhr swisspeace, Sonnenbergstr. 17, Bern Einladung unter: http://www.swisspeace.org/news/default.htm .
(for more IDP Vigils see: www.IDPvigil.com)
COURTEMAICHE
Heyyanka Foundation Switzerland
Therapeutic community & Cultural center
Email: com-courtema@bluewin.ch
Tel: 0041-032-466 76 61
EVENT:  We will have a meeting in the evening, with a Inipi sweatlodge ceremony at sunset and the initiation of a huge crystal Medicinewheel which is dedicated to Worldpeace and Earth healing. A better world is possible, let's create it!
GENEVA
Lama Gangchen World Peace Foundation
Email: msprincipal@isl.ch
Web: www.worldpeacecongress.net
EVENT:  Offering lights and incense with prayers for world peace as well as ringing the peace bell at the United Nations in Geneva and placing a link on our website -
GENEVA
World Peace Day/Journée Mondiale de la Paix
Group size: many
Contact person: Jeanne Hrdina
Email: WORLDPEACEDA@netscape.net
IDP Vigil :  Message to schools re study of peace values and observance of spiritual moment of silence on the Day 2)Message to belligerents worldwide re ceasefire, non-violence 3) Press info to general public 4) Highlight observances by other Geneva groups like World Council of Churches and CONGO .
(for more IDP Vigils see: www.IDPvigil.com)
GENEVA
International School of Geneva
Email: shona.wright@ecolint.ch
 EVENT:  Holding a school assembly with all of our students dressed in white and celebrating acts of peace, plus lighting a candle for every country that is currently at war.
LAUSANNE
International School of Lausanne
Email: msprincipal@isl.ch
Web: www.isl.ch
EVENT:  holding an assembly, ringing a bell and one minute's silence. The students will write messages with their hopes for lasting peace.
SCHAFFHAUSEN
International School of Schaffhausen
EVENT:   The whole school took part in a celebration of peace in the school garden. We held hands, held a one minute silence and each child said (in turn) "Peace" in their own language.

PEACE DAY ARCHIVE
SWITZERLAND
Each year at the UN Headquarters in Geneva, the Peace Bell is rung at the exact same time as the Peace Bell ringing at United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
(www.un.org/events/peaceday/2003/global.html)
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