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Welcome

It started with a crazy idea.

Over the last 10 years, Peace Day has been proved as an opportunity for
life-saving activities and action by individuals worldwide. For Peace Day
21 September 2012, Peace One Day is calling for and working towards a day
of ceasefire and non-violence - the Global Truce 2012 campaign. We hope
that this will be the largest reduction in global violence in recorded
history, both domestically and internationally – and the largest ever
gathering of individuals in the name of peace.

21 September is Peace Day - a day for individuals to become part of wide-scale community action, as well as a day that provides a window of opportunity for aid organisations to carry out life-saving work.

How it started

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 day of global ceasefire and non-violence on 21 September annually – Peace Day.

With the day in place, Peace One Day is working to institutionalise Peace Day, 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.

Peace Day has already been proven as a window for life-saving activities; in 2007, Gilley and Peace One Day ambassador Jude Law travelled to Afghanistan to spearhead an initiative that has resulted in the vaccination against polio of 4.5 million children following Peace Day agreements by all parties in the region in 2007/8/9. This work forms the culmination of Gilley’s feature documentary The Day After Peace.

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

Monika Slowikowska– Building Contractor

Nicholas Charles– Accountant & Tax Advisor

Nick Finegold– Investment Banker

Nick Haines– Health, Wealth & Wellbeing Consultant

Richard Reed– Founder, Innocent Drinks

Simon Dixon - CEO Benedix & BankToTheFuture.com

Simon Woodroffe OBE– Founder YO!Sushi, YO!Tel, BBC Dragon

Wayne Davies - Founder of TheatreTickets.net and SEO Specialist