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It started with a crazy idea

Peace One Day’s objective is to institutionalise Peace Day 21 September. Throughout the years, millions of people have been active on Peace Day in every country of the world, and hundreds of organisations have carried out life-saving activities in areas of conflict. Peace One Day’s Campaigns and activities in Education, Music, Film, Sport, Dance, Art and Online have proved that the day works.
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About Peace One Day

Jeremy Gilley is an actor turned filmmaker, who in the late 1990s became preoccupied with questions about the fundamental nature of humanity and the issue of peace. He decided to explore these through the medium of film, and specifically, to create a documentary following his campaign to establish an annual day of ceasefire and non-violence.

In 1999, Jeremy founded Peace One Day, a non-profit organisation, and in 2001 Peace One Day’s efforts were rewarded when the member states of the United Nations unanimously adopted the first ever annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence on 21 September – Peace Day.

Peace One Day’s objective is to institutionalise Peace Day 21 September, making it a day that is self-sustaining, an annual day of global unity, a day of intercultural cooperation on a scale that humanity has never known.

Inspired by a 70% recorded reduction in violent incidents on Peace Day in Afghanistan (source: United Nations Department of Safety and Security), and in order to build a strong foundation for 2012, Jeremy launched the Global Truce campaign that involved the creation of a series of Peace One Day coalitions, each with a lead partner: the NGO Coalition; the ‘Reducing Domestic Violence’ Coalition; the Student Coalition; and the Schools’ Network.

Through detailed analysis conducted with the support of McKinsey & Company, the Peace One Day 2012 report found that, across the world, approximately 280 million people in 198 countries were aware of Peace Day 2012 – 4% of the world’s population. The report further estimates that approximately 2% of those people (5.6 million) behaved more peacefully as a result. Peace One Day expects to double those figures for 2013, creating a solid foundation for informing 3 billion people about Peace Day by 2016. In 2013, through our own initiatives and collaborations with various parties, Peace One Day will set out to encourage organisations and individuals take specific actions to reduce violence around the theme: Who Will You Make Peace With?

Peace Day 2012 Summary Report

Peace One Day is impartial and independent of any government, political persuasion, corporation or religious creed. Through a multi-platform approach, Peace One Day utilises different tools to raise awareness, advocate for Peace Day and engage the global community in its broad observance.

Celebrating Peace Day

Sponsors

We are grateful to the following organisations for supporting Peace One Day, without whom our work would not be possible:

Dior

Coca Cola

British Airways

Skype

Execution Charitible Trust

Innocent

Ocado

Google

Lotus

Thanks also for the generous support from Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.

Patrons

President of Peace One Day Patrons

Steve Bolton– Founder Platinum Property Partners

And with help from our generous patrons (read more about our patrons here).

Andrew Priestley– Business Coach

Ash Zuberi– Property Consultant BJ Cunningham – Serial Entrepreneur Cathy Colston – Property Investor Christopher Wright– Insurance Consultant Costas Polycarpou– Facilities Management Services Provider Daniel Coe – Investor & Treasurer for Peace One Day Insights Daniel Priestley– Speaker Events

Eddie Yu– Author & Internet Entrepreneur

Emma Carter– Executive Creative Partner Gerard Scannell – Property Investor Graham Moates – Professional Coach & Mentor for Personal Development Joanna Tall– Legal Advisor Kathy Davies – Procurement Consultant Kylie Gutry Lazo Freeman– UK’s #1 Personal Trainer Martin Shepherdly– Co-Founder BeThere Global Ltd Monika Slowikowska– Building Contractor Nicholas Charles– Accountant & Tax Advisor Nick Finegold– Investment Banker Nick Fox– Property Consultant Nick Haines– Health, Wealth & Wellbeing Consultant Richard Reed– Founder, Innocent Drinks Simon Dixon – CEO, BankToTheFuture.com Simon Woodroffe OBE– Founder YO!Sushi, YO!Tel, BBC Dragon Wayne Davies – Founder of TheatreTickets.net and SEO Specialist