{"id":962,"date":"2010-10-18T14:26:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T14:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bothness.uber.space\/?p=962"},"modified":"2011-06-04T10:50:21","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T10:50:21","slug":"peace-one-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/?p=962","title":{"rendered":"Peace One Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 21st<\/sup> Each Year\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More Photos<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"PoneDWhy Should We Celebrate It?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The reason why people fight wars it very complicated.\u00a0\u00a0One could go on about it for pages, could write whole volumes.\u00a0 One could explain its historical causes,\u00a0 psycho-social causes, economic causes,\u00a0moral justifications.\u00a0 On the other hand the reason why people fight wars is very simple.\u00a0 It\u2019s because people think it\u2019s all right to do so.\u00a0 Retaliation that would never be accepted between individuals is somehow thought\u00a0 appropriate for nations.\u00a0 So if we\u2019re ever going to have peace on earth, we need some simple, straightforward thinking.\u00a0 We need simply to notice that wars never do any longterm good and that it\u2019s time to try another way.<\/p>\n

Learn more at:\u00a0 \u00a0Peace One Day<\/a><\/p>\n

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Fortunately, a straightforward thinker came along a decade ago.\u00a0 Jeremy Gilley, a young freelance cinematographer, was making a film about peace, when he realized that, in all human history, there had not been one single day when people somewhere had not been killing each other.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Why was there never even one war-free day?\u00a0 Maybe, he reasoned, the place to start was with one day of peace.\u00a0 If people got used to just one day a year, perhaps then they could handle two.\u00a0 And so on, until one day, there would simply be peace.<\/p>\n

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Jeremy\u2019s simple idea caught the imaginations of the great and the good.\u00a0 The Dalai\u00a0 Lama supported his campaign and the Secretary General of the United Nations.\u00a0 Angelina Jolie and Jude Law gave their famous faces to publicize it.\u00a0 Finally, in 2001 the United Nations declared September 21st<\/sup> each year as its Peace One Day.\u00a0\u00a0Perhaps \u00a0never was a day of peace needed more than\u00a0after September 9\/11 rather than the war\u00a0on terror which was declared in its aftermath.<\/p>\n

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It had taken a long time for the idea to catch on because people \u2013even the media \u2013 are apt to think peace is boring: that it\u2019s just the quiet bit after the shooting and bombing stop.\u00a0 Peace is much more than that, as the Peace One Day campaign has shown.\u00a0 On Peace Day, 2007, tenth anniversary of the launch of Jeremy\u2019s campaign, a daylong ceasefire was declared in Afghanistan, allowing the vaccination of children against polio in otherwise inaccessible regions of that war-torn country.\u00a0 That same day, sixty tons of food were dropped to famine areas of the Sudan, and mosquito nets distributed to sixty thousand people in the Congo.\u00a0 Here in Britain, six thousand filled the Albert Hall to celebrate Peace One Day\u2019s birthday and hear Annie Lennox sing \u201cSweet Dreams Are Made of This\u201d, for so they are.<\/p>\n

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The campaign continues with work like this throughout the year and with a special focus on September 21st<\/sup>.\u00a0 Here in Norwich, we\u2019ve been marking Peace One Day since 2006: sometimes with children and balloons, sometimes in more reflective ways.\u00a0 Again this year 2010, a lunchtime vigil\u00a0took place\u00a0at the Forum\u00a0between 1 and 1.30pm on Tuesday, September 21st.\u00a0 Norwich Interfaith Link is the sponsor.Please join us to make your heartfelt wish that the world may be at peace one day.<\/p>\n

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September 21st Each Year\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 More Photos Why Should We Celebrate It? The reason why people fight wars it very complicated.\u00a0\u00a0One could go on about it for pages, could write whole volumes.\u00a0 One could explain its historical causes,\u00a0 psycho-social causes, economic causes,\u00a0moral justifications.\u00a0 On the other hand the reason why people fight wars is very simple.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/norwichpeace.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}