21 September 2009

GPPAC works to promote conflict prevention and peacebuilding at both a conceptual and practical level. As such, the UN International Day of Peace - which falls on 21 September and calls for a 24-hour global ceasefire - represents an excellent opportunity to promote our agenda. Click here to see what GPPAC members did around the world in 2008, and be sure to check back often as we're already in the process of planning for 2009!

 

 

People Building Peace:

The Stories

A collection of inspiring and often remarkable stories of how civil society has made, or is currently making, a difference in conflict areas around the world.

 

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People Building Peace is the international public awareness campaign of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC). People Building Peace highlights the contributions of civil society to preventing violent conflict, and the power and impact that 'people power' brings to transform lives and communities in the shadow of violence. On people building peace - the stories you can see the difference people are making around the world!

 

 

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE 2009

The 21st of September is the UN International Day of Peace, a day of cease fire and non–violence. Every year the GPPAC networks tries to gather people and celebrate together to spread a worldwide call for peace. Like every year, GPPAC tried to create a global celebration of the event, and give voice and worldwide echo to what has been going on in the different regions of the globe during this day. If you would like to know how people from all around the world celebrated the 2009 21st of September go to our International Day of Peace 2009 events page. 

We are still interested in knowing how you celebrated the event this year. If you would like to share the news of how you spent your 21st of September and have the report of the event posted on our website, send and email to People Building Peace at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it !

 

Furthermore, for the first time this year GPPAC launched a global campaign aimed at involving people and organizations from all over the world to celebrate the 21st of September together, giving a visual idea of how big the call for peace worldwide is. People were asked to send us pictures of themselves symbolising that “Peace is possible”, along with a short sentence or slogan. We have created a video out of the pictures collected, which gives a visual idea of how big the global call for peace worldwide is. You can have a look at the result of our campaign here.  

 

For useful information on awareness raising and campaigning, please take a look at our Awareness Raising Toolkit, which is now available in Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Russian and Spanish. You can download the GPPAC newsletter of 2008 with an overview of 21/9 events here (pdf, 1,8 MB)