30 Days of
Peace www.daysofpeace.org-
under the auspices of the Culture of Peace
Initiative (CPI) www.cultureofpeace.org
- is a global networking Initiative that is
tracking and raising awareness of Peacebuilding
events and projects occurring throughout the
world.
The
first annual 30 Days of Peace begins on September
11th, 2007, the 101st anniversary of Mahatma
Gandhi's creation of the modern non-violence
movement, and concludes on October 10th, the
birthday of the late international journalist
and musician Daniel Pearl. The central focus
of 30 Days is the International Day of Peace
(Peace Day), held annually on September 21st.
Over the past 25 years, during Peace Day,
a growing number of diverse Peace events and
projects took place in thousands of locations,
in almost every nation.
This year, 30 Days of Peace will take the
first steps in quantifying and formalizing
this global network of people, non-profit
organizations, and companies, by creating
an event database, and publicizing this crucial
work via an online publicity and marketing
campaign. By gathering and distributing information
about peace events and organizations, 30 Days
of Peace seeks to increase awareness of and
ongoing participation in worldwide Peacebuilding
work.
A prime example of Peacebuilding are the programs
of The Daniel Pearl Foundation, www.danielpearl.org,
including their 6th Annual World Music Days,
October 1 - 15, 2007, www.worldmusicdays.org.
Visit www.daysofpeace.org
to register your peace-related event, find
out about events in your area, or sign up
and show your support.
Life's a puzzle. We each hold a peace.
30 Days of Peace is a joint program of the
501c3 not-for-profit organizations Pathways
To Peace www.pathwaystopeace.org
and Earthdance International www.earthdance.org.
PARTICIPATING
ORGANIZATIONS:
Earthdance
International: www.earthdance.org
Co-Founder
and Coordinating Partner for 30 Days of Peace.
Founded in 1997, Earthdance - The Global Festival
for Peace, has grown from an underground movement
to become the world’s largest simultaneous
music and dance event. Earthdance unites an
international community, committed to peace
and sustainability. The climax of the Earthdance
event is a synchronized link-up and webcast
when each location across the world plays
the The Prayer for Peace music track, at the
same moment. On Saturday, September
16, 2006, the 10th annual Earthdance global
event united over 340 locations in 57 countries
in support of global peace and humanitarian
aims.
Pathways
To Peace: www.pathwaystopeace.org
Co-Founder
of 30 Days of Peace. Pathways To Peace is
the pioneering NGO for the International Day
of Peace, and an international Peacebuilding,
educational and consulting organization. Since
1983, Pathways To Peace (PTP) has served locally
and globally as a recognized leader in the
field of Peacebuilding. Pathways To Peace,
has Consultative status and has been an official
Peace Messenger with the UN for over 20 years.
Culture
of Peace Initiative: www.cultureofpeace.org
The Culture
of Peace Initiative (CPI) is a co-operative
Peacebuilding Initiative whose long-term purpose
is to unite the strengths of existing organizations
and peoples in building a Culture of Peace
for succeeding generations. CPI, originated
in 1983 by Pathways To Peace, has served as
a vehicle for bringing to light the previously
unseen and unheard Peacebuilders working towards
Peace along diverse pathways. An annual highlight
of this Initiative is the International Day
of Peace, (Peace Day) celebrated worldwide
on September 21st by over 3000 local/global
organizations in over 200 nations. CPI continues
to serve as a community of forerunners in
the emerging field of Peacebuilding, to give
evidence that Peace is a practical reality
and necessity in the 21st Century.
Daniel Pearl
World Music Days: www.music-days.org
The Daniel
Pearl Foundation, created in memory of journalist
Daniel Pearl, launched the first Daniel Pearl
World Music Days on October 10, 2002. Using
the power of music to promote tolerance and
inspire respect for differences, the Daniel
Pearl World Music Days has grown to include
thousands of performances in over 60 countries
from October 4th to 11th, creating a global
network of concerts promoting Harmony for
Humanity. In 2005 they introduced the World
Music Days e-stage, a month long on-line gallery
and radio station featuring music, poetry,
art, articles, and dedications reflecting
Danny’s lifetime of work connecting
people through words and music.
The International
Day of Peace
Culture of
Peace Initiative –www.cultureofpeace.org
N.G.O. Activities
2006 - www.internationaldayofpeace.org
UN Activities
2006 - www.un.org/events/peaceday/2006/index.shtml
Established
by a United Nations resolution in 1981, the
International Day of Peace was first observed
in September 1982. The International Day of
Peace provides an opportunity for individuals,
organizations and nations to create practical
acts of Peace on a shared date and to highlight
the Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence
for the Children of the World, 2001 to 2010.
World Peace
Prayer Society - www.worldpeace.org
The World Peace
Prayer Society is a non-profit, non-sectarian,
member-supported organization dedicated to
spreading the message and prayer, May Peace
Prevail on Earth, all over the world. It was
founded in Japan by Masahisa Goi in 1955,
and in 1988 the world headquarters moved to
New York. In 1990 the Society was accepted
as a N.G.O., affiliated with the Department
of Public Information of the U.N. The society
is headquartered at the beautiful World Peace
Sanctuary in Wassiac, New York, home of the
Annual World Peace Festival. It also has offices
in Tokyo, Munich, Santiago and San Francisco.
We, The
World / 11 Days of Global Unity - www.wetheworld.org
11 Days of
Global Unity is an annual worldwide promotion
of peace
and sustainability launched in 2004 by We
The World with more than 200 concerts, festivals,
web-casts, and other events culminating on
September 21 the U.N. International Day of
Peace. The mission of We The World is to maximize
social change on a global scale, by working
to awaken a spirit of caring and involvement
in the public, and actively take part in creating
a world that works for all. Supporters include
Nobel Peace Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu
and Honorary Co-Chairs Jane Goodall, Deepak
Chopra, Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty
International.
Music 4
Peace: www.music4peace.com
Music
4 Peace has launched The Gandhi Tour, celebrating
Gandhi’s 100 Years of Nonviolence movement
with special guest Dr. Arun Gandhi (the grandson
of Mahatma Gandhi) and multimedia live act
1001Ways at the 10th Earthdance Festival in
California 2006. Networking with peace related
music events and cultural peace organizations
globally, Music 4 Peace presents the 30 Days
of Peace together with Dancing City Entertainment
at the world’s largest music industry
fair, at the MIDEM 2007 Cannes/France.
The
Founder of Music 4 Peace, Tobias Huber, is
as member of the Committee of The Global Peace-Concert
Atlanta 2008.
See
our announcement of the 30 Days of Peace:
http://www.music4peace.com/Pages/30Days-of-Peace.html
CommonPassion:
www.commonpassion.org
CommonPassion.org
is evolving a collaborative social network
that orchestrates, monitors, and validates
the effectiveness of peace-engendering events,
such as local and global meditations and prayers,
peace concerts and dances, and other practices.
Simultaneously,
we cooperate with law enforcement agencies
to monitor crime, emergency call reports and
other indicators of social coherence, allowing
us to validate the positive influence on social
harmony and improvement in the quality of
life.
The
ultimate goal is to organize routine interfaith
peace-making events that promote social harmony
and provide real-time feedback to participating
groups of their positive influence on the
community.
WiserEarth:
www.wiserearth.org
WiserEarth
serves the people who are transforming the
world. It is a community directory and networking
forum that maps and connects non-governmental
organizations and individuals addressing the
central issues of our day: climate change,
poverty, the environment, peace, water, hunger,
social justice, conservation, human rights
and more. Content is created and edited by
people like you.
International
Day of Peace Vigil - www.idpvigil.com
An ever-expanding
number of people around the world, representing
a wide variety of religious and spiritual
traditions, have committed to the task of
working with other like-minded individuals
and groups for an International Day of Peace
Vigil with the following objective: To encourage
worldwide, 24-hour spiritual observations
for Peace through non-violence on the International
Day of Peace, 21 September, in every house
of worship and place of spiritual practice,
by all religious and spiritually based
groups and
individuals, and by all men, women and children
who seek Peace in the world. This global 24-hour
spiritual observation for Peace is meant to
demonstrate the power of prayer and other
spiritual practices in promoting Peace and
preventing violent conflict.
www.daysofpeace.org
