Peace One Day

Peace One Day is a non-profit organisation with the objective to raise awareness of the International Day of Peace that occurs on the 21st September each year. The objective of the organisation is to foster Peace Day as "a day for wide-scale community action, and a day for UN agencies and aid organisations to safely carry out life-saving work."

Founded in 1999 by the British documentary filmmaker and actor Jeremy Gilley, Peace One Day led a successful campaign to pass UN Resolution 55/282 recognising Peace Day as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence. Unanimously approved by all members States the resolution also invites organisations and individuals to commemorate the International Day of Peace through education and public awareness, and to cooperate with the United Nations in the establishment of the global ceasefire.

Global Truce 2012

At the Peace Day O2 Arena concert in 2011, Peace One Day announced a 365 day countdown to a 'Global Truce' in 2012, to take place on Peace Day. The concert was to promote London 2012's Olympic Truce programme and to mark the International Day of Peace.With successful negotiations for consecutive ceasefires on Peace Day between 2008 to 2010 in Afghanistan and the humanitarian work that was achieved there, demonstrating in one of the most difficult conflicts the day could work. This inspired Jeremy Gilley which lead to the ambitious and unprecedented announcement, a new international campaign called Global Truce 2012. Peace One Day will be monitoring the day's impact with measurable results and hopes this will be world record.

The aims of Global Truce 2012:

The largest reduction in global violence in recorded history, both domestically and internationally.
The largest ever gathering of individuals in the name of peace.