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Here, you can hear from our founder Jeremy Gilley. We make sure that you keep up-to-date with the latest news from the campaign trail. To see the updates as we're creating them, keep checking back to this page, where we will upload the latest news as often as we can. If there's anything in particular you would like to hear about, or questions you would like Jeremy to answer, just contact us on Facebook or Twitter.
NUS and the Student Coalition
The first in our series of guest blog posts. Dannie Grufferty writes about Peace One Day’s Student Coalition and how students are the key to countries standing together for peace NUS and Peace One Day have forged a unique partnership based on a shared vision of students and young people changing the world for [...]
New Peace One Day Website
This week we launched the brand new Peace One Day website. It has been designed as a one-stop source for all the information you need to know about Peace One Day and what happens on 21 September, Peace Day. For newcomers, we hope that the site will encourage you to become involved in the [...]
The White Pencil
The D&AD White Pencil is awarded to a creative idea that changes the world for the better. A creative idea that demonstrates the ability to influence real and positive change in the world: an idea that raises awareness or changes behaviour around a pressing social, environmental, health or humanitarian issue. Each time the competition runs [...]
The Global Truce 2012 Coalition
We only launched the countdown to Global Truce 2012 a little over 2 months ago, but already we are humbled by the growing number of supporters from around the world, across all sectors of society. I was privileged to be in New York recently to meet with key individuals from the United Nations. I met [...]
Skype in the classroom with students around the world
It was great to start the new week with a Skype call with young people in Nanshan, China – the first time Peace One Day has used Skype in the Classroom to speak with students in China! Thank you to the International School of Nanshan for their time and enthusiasm yesterday. After the call the [...]