In an unsettled world, the UN International Day of Peace on 21 September is an opportunity to reflect on peace and reconciliationboth globally and in our personal lives at school and home. It is also a day of practical action, to make acts of peace and observe a day of worldwide ceasefire and non-violence.

We have some powerful resources on the Guardian Teacher Network to use on Peace Day and beyond.

Peace One Day (POD), founded by filmmaker Jeremy Gilley, has some stirring and engaging resources. POD is launching its 365-day countdown for a Global Truce 2012 tomorrow and you can find its lesson aimed at secondary-school aged children here. Action led by POD resulted in a 70% reduction in violence in Afghanistan on Peace Day 2008. Students can talk face-to-face with Gilley over Skype, part of POD’s outreach programme. Visit www.peaceoneday.org/en/education to find out more.

Amnesty International has produced resources on child soldiers aimed at 11- to 14-year-olds, which focus on the story of Ishmael Beah, who became a child soldier in Sierra Leone when he was just 13.

The People’s History Museum has produced a citizenship lesson on campaigning for a cause, focusing on the birth of the British Peace Committee and of course making use of fascinating original sources.

And we have a set of assemblies by Christian Aid.

War Child has produced a powerful lesson on the impact of war.

See this Red Cross lesson on child soldiers and one exploring the recent and ongoing conflict in Libya.

Also see the UN’s official International Day of Peace website’s practical examples of actions and projects.

The Association of Citizenship Teachers (ACT) works hard to help the teaching of citizenship in school, giving practical advice and best practice recommendations.

It is still often forgotten that the First World War did not officially end on 11th November 1918. The treaty negotiations at Versailles continued long into the following year, with the Germans desperately battling with the allies’ desire to turn the screw as tight as possible in the matter of war reparations. But clearly the Treaty would be signed sooner or later, and governments started to turn their minds to the matter of marking the official end of the war.

In Britain the Peace Committee met for the first time on 9th May 1919, with Lord Curzon, Foreign Secretary in charge. Curzon, who loved pomp and ceremony, outlined a celebration running over four days (tentatively pencilled in for the beginning of August), including a Victory March through London, a day of Thanksgiving services, a river pageant, and a day of popular festivities. Lloyd George favoured something simpler, but the the rest of the Cabinet supported Curzon.

In any event the signing of peace at the end of June meant that arrangements had to be speeded up, and the celebration was fixed for 19th July. Lloyd George was taken with the French plan for their Victory March in Paris on Bastille Day, 14th July, which involved Allied troops marching past a great catafalque and saluting in honour of the dead.

Edwin Lutyens was called to 10 Downing Street and asked to come up with a design for a suitable structure. Within hours he had produced a set of full-size working drawings of a “cenotaph” (meaning literally “empty tomb”), and plans for the London Victory Parade and associated Peace Day celebrations went ahead.

In some ways it was never entirely clear what message Peace Day was intended to put across. A letter in a Manchester newspaper put one view of the matter:

Sir,
I am sure the title Peace Day will send a cold shiver through the bodies of thousands of ‘demobbed’ men who are walking about the streets of Manchester looking for a job. Could a term be found that would be more ironical for such men. Perhaps, after the Manchester and Salford Corporations have celebrated this ‘Peace’ and incidentally will have wasted the thousands of pounds which it will cost, they will devote their spare time to alleviating the ‘bitterness’ and ‘misery’ which exist in the body and mind of the unemployed ex-soldier.
It is high time some very forcible and active measures were taken. Many Manchester businessmen refuse to employ the ex-soldier on the grounds that he has lost four years of experience in this line or that line of business through being in the army. What a splendid and patriotic retort to make to the men who were chiefly instrumental in saving their business from being in the possession of the Hun.

Manchester Evening News July 10th 1919

And there were others who felt that perhaps it was not quite the time to celebrate. The ex-serviceman’s federation in East Anglia had decided in June 1919 to boycott peace celebrations and throughout Norfolk the federation was to take no part in the celebrations: in Norwich an official explained:

Our pals died to kill militarism, not to establish that here. We have had militarism burned into us, and we hate it… The Norwich branch of the federation, which consists of nearer 4,000 men than 3,000, has decided that they will take no part in the celebration of this mock peace.
quoted in “The Story of the Cenotaph” by Eric Homberger, in TImes Literary Supplement, 12 November 1976

The preparations had a dynamic all their own, however, and mere protests would not stop them. And there was a genuine sense that the fact the war was really over should be marked in some way. It had been on July 19th 1588 that a chain of beacons had blazed to warn of the coming of the Spanish Armada, and in an echo of that there was a plan for nationwide bonfires to be lit as night fell on July 19th 1919.

As preparations were made for the Victory Parade in London, a huge military camp grew up in Kensington Gardens, with large numbers of Allied troops bivouacking there. The population of London swelled, with thousands of people coming into the capital on Friday’s overnight trains. Hundreds of people spent the night in the parks or streets to be sure of a good place. Women climbed on top of the high wall round the Victoria memorial gardens and sat there for fifteen or sixteen hours. The rush for places on the processional route was in full swing by six in the morning, and by eight o’clock it was almost impossible to cross Trafalgar Square.

On the morning itself King George V issued a message to the wounded:

To these, the sick and wounded who cannot take part in the festival of victory, I send out greetings and bid them good cheer, assuring them that the wounds and scars so honourable in themselves, inspire in the hearts of their fellow countrymen the warmest feelings of gratitude and respect.
reported in Daily Express, 19 July 1919

The crowds continued to pour in looking for vantage points on the route of the parade. The official programme (price 1 penny) sold in hundreds of thousands. Pubs near the main route ran dry very early on and had to close. It was reported that a man who tried to auction a bottle of ginger beer to the crowd was almost killed in the rush.

Every year

Please copy this and spread it around, we depend on YOU to spread the word.

I know this is a lot to read, but I ask you to please read it through. Think about how a large demonstration could change the way our leaders make decisions. If we start teaching our children by example, instead of just saying things and not following through ourselves, maybe, just maybe, they will understand the importance of their actions and deeds. It is a simple way to teach our children that we do stand for living in a peaceful world. That humans, as a species, can learn from their mistakes, and live in balance with the planet, instead of destroying everything we touch. If we can instill that profit from corrupt means will be a loss for mankind, and endanger our planet’s ability to enable us to survive, then perhaps they will have lives that will be worth living in the future. You’ve heard it all before, but haven’t chosen to act. I am making it so easy for you to set an example, if you don’t, you will have no one to blame but yourself. It’s about time we all participate in the lessons of the way the web of life works. It is the same as we all learned in school. You take away one piece of the web, and the whole thing will collapse. It is a truth that has been taught but ignored through our own greed and selfishness. Lets start with a simple act that will help us realize how easy it is to make that change.

May Peace prevail on Earth,
Peaceguy

Peaceguy’s Prayer

May the people on this planet be changed.
Changed from hatred to love,
Changed from greed to giving,
Changed from selfishness to selflessness,
Changed from apathy to action,
Changed from jealousy to joy over someone’s accomplishments,
Changed from intolerance to acceptance,
Changed from being destructive to being constructive,
Changed from fighting to peace,
Changed from killing to protecting life,
Changed from censorship to freedom,
Changed from ignorance to education,
Changed from fearing our differences to rejoicing our variety.

May we each take it upon ourselves to feed the hungry, cure the sick,
house the homeless, educate the illiterate, love the unloved,
compete to do the right thing instead of winning at any cost,
make heros that teach our children to
make the world a better place instead of glorifying violence and war,
stand up and speak out against things that are wrong
instead of sitting back and waiting for someone else,
demand honesty from our governments,
demand honesty from ourselves.

May we each take responsibility for our own actions
and realize that by refusing to change ourselves,
we condone all the evils in the world.
If one person changes they teach others by example,
who in turn change and teach more,
one person becomes as a pebble rolling down a mountain,
picking up more pebbles as it continues,
becoming an avalanche of change.
It can happen, it must happen, it will happen.

To make this prayer work, you have to change yourself.

Copyright 1997 Don Morris. Feel free to use this anywhere and any place. All I ask is to reference this website if you do.

Here is my pebble to start this avalanche,…. hopefully you will add your pebble
and together we can demonstrate how easy it is to make a grassroots movement work.

A few years back I had a vision of creating a non-religious, non- governmental, world inclusive, grassroots movement for a day to promote peace. I am no rocket scientist, I am just a regular person who goes about my daily tasks to survive in this world,… just like everyone else. I had the vision but no direction, and did my best to make the demonstration easy. But I failed because people look for some kind of director, some kind of organization to lead them and tell them what to do. I failed to realize that petitions are a dime a dozen, and concerts and large gatherings usually take some kind of organizing to pull off and corporate sponsors and all the usual payments and permits associated with it all. This was something I just didn’t have the ability or time to do. Although, I spent all my spare time working on it, I didn’t have the ingredients to make it happen. There are thousands of media outlets to contact and they want details for each place and times and all the associated media. All I have is a website. It was discouraging to me to see how difficult it was to put something like this together. I stagnated and became depressed. I didn’t realize the way to make this happen. One morning I sat typing a reply to an email and all of a sudden my vision was made complete. I needed to ask for help. Your help. World Peace Day, November 17th, is what, I hope, will empower us to make our leaders, and our future generations, take notice. You think mass demonstrations don’t work? If they don’t, then how would the now cliche “Million woman/man/ march” become part of our everyday language? The problem with trying to congregate millions of people into one place is that it leaves out so many. I think the path to peace begins at home. It’s an inner decision that each individual has to make. But a mass demonstration IS neccessary. So we’re having a mass demonstration. The location is wherever you happen to be. This is the only way to really make terrorists, politicians and world leaders take notice that THE PEOPLE want peace! Military might and aggression have been proven time and time again not to do anything but create a world of fear, violence, and destruction. Weapons of mass destruction are a deterrent, but the only way to real peace is through negotiation and resolving the issues that created the problems. By gathering together we provide the pebble to start the avalanche towards peace.

First of all I want to make sure everyone realizes this starts with you. There is no “organization” or corporation that is coordinating this. There is no official logo, no corporate sponsorship, no donations or money needed. It is a grassroots effort to make a change for yourself. If you are in business and want to use it to make money by selling T-shirts or trinkets, it makes no difference to me. As long as people don’t think that the money gained comes back to peaceday.org, because to all who want to know, it doesn’t. Use your conscience as your guide. I want people to know that money is really not needed for this grassroots effort, it is a display of people wanting to live in a world of peace. The only instructions are,…..pray, focus, or meditate for peace. There is no set time table, it will be all 24 hours of November 17. There is no printed media other than this web page, you are free to create your own. Find a few people WHEREVER YOU ARE, take a few moments to hold hands in a circle and meditate together for peace for a few minutes. Please read on because there is something to reinforce what you will do on November 17th.

A couple of years backSusan Parker and I started corresponding over the web. I always admired her project because it had results that people could see and feel. I had the pleasure of visiting a Sadako Peace Park located on the grounds of the “La Casa Maria” in Santa Barbara, California. Hanging from the trees and bushes were little paper cranes that had been left by people who had visited the park. In the center was a huge eucalyptus tree. It made such an impression on me that I decided that some day I would make a paper crane project of my own.

As I sat thinking about the current aggression in the Middle East and here we go again killing the poor people that have to put up with leaders who are making all these poor choices, I suddenly realized what we all can do! We can fold some paper cranes and send them to as many leaders we can find the addresses for. Lets make an impression on our leaders, no, lets shock our leaders into seeing that we all want to live in peace. I am hoping that our leaders get so many folded paper cranes that they will complain to me to take down my site and end this paper crane deluge.It can only be done with your help. They say if you fold 1000 cranes you will be granted your wish. Lets fold a couple of million cranes and wish for world peace. Ahh but lets also start to hang cranes around in the public. Lets make it so people will see them in shopping malls and in parks, hang a crane in your office. You get the idea. Lets make it so everyone gets a chance to be reminded about peace. Inform your friends about it so when people ask about all the cranes they keep seeing, someone will be able to explain it to them and get them started folding their own. It will be interesting to see how long it will be before I start seeing cranes that other people have folded. Hanging from street signs as I am driving around. Just put them in visible locations. Like the fence in front of the White House

Thank-you for helping, Peace and love,
Peaceguy

Here is what to do.

Take some junk mail, because you were going to throw it away anyway.

Fold it into paper cranes.
Either send them to a world leader of your choice,….or
Hang them in a place that is visible to the public.

Thanks tohttp://www.sadako.org/for the instructions!

Or mail to the leaders of your choice.

President Barack H. Obama
The Whitehouse
Washington, DC 20500
tel 1-202-456-1414 fax 1-202-456-2461
president@whitehouse.gov

http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/

Find your elected Congressperson

Find your Senator

This place is a great online source of World Leader’s email addresses.
ADDRESS DIRECTORY FOR THE POLITICIANS OF THE WORLD

These are consulates addresses for many countries.

http://www.state.gov/www/travel/consular_offices/fco_index.html

Secretary-General Ban-Ki-moon
Office of the Secretary-General
United Nations
New York, NY 10017

The Carter Center Updates on world Conflicts is a good place to start looking for places to send cranes.

If you don’t want to fold cranes please place this ribbon on your webpage, or print it and place it where people can see you are wishing for peace. If you do, can you please link it back to this website.

On November 17, drive with your headlights on as a public demonstration for peace, and think about peace as you go through your daily activities. Fold some cranes and place them around your city.

May Peace Prevail On Earth,
Peaceguy

Listen for Life was honored when UN-related organizations in Geneva invited us to organize music-based events around the globe to raise awareness of the UN Millennium Development Goals, as well as celebrate UN International Day of Peace (“Peace Day”). In the process of organizing and producing our initial events in 2010, we learned, first of all, that the word “Peace” means very different things to different people! There is no one definition for the term that all cultures, societies or even individuals would agree with, and no one way to determine who “lives in peace” or who doesn’t have that opportunity, because the experience goes far deeper than absence of violence or conflict or peace of mind. But we also learned that regardless of the meaning or definition, music of all cultures and genres can most definitely open the hearts of all and provide an increased opportunity to experience peace!

Goals

The UN General Assembly approved the idea of having a worldwide Peace Day on September 21st of each year, back in 1982. Here is a brief history of the idea, the resolution and its goals. Peace Day events, large and small, are now held in over 125 countries around the world, and they are all organized by ordinary citizens and volunteer groups. Events are created not only to provide central gathering points where all demographics can come together for a shared experience on that day, but also as a year-round focal point and project that will regularly bring together individuals, groups, organizations and demographics within a community, for the planning process itself and the growing sense of unity that this engenders.

For this important community-building process, the shared emotional language of music seems an ideal tool throughout the year, as well as being a natural focus of any Peace Day events being planned for this coming September 21 in your own neighborhood.
There are many types of activities that can bring people together on Peace Day – sporting/athletic contests, live theatre, speeches, street fairs, nondenominational church services, multicultural food events, poetry contests, and so on. If you or your neighborhood choose one of those activities, that’s all great. But if you choose to do something around the universal language of music, then that’s where we can help you. We can bring your event under our Listen for Life banner and promote it through our very popular website, and we can help you with any advice or organizing support you need.

For complete, detailed, step-by-step instructions and a template/guideline for planning and creating Peace Day events through music, click here.

International Day of Peace

Flag of the United Nations
Observed by

All UN Member States
Date

September 21

The International Day of Peace, also known as the World Peace Day, occurs annually on September 21. It is dedicated to peace, and specifically the absence of war, such as might be occasioned by a temporary ceasefire in a combat zone. It is observed by many nations, political groups, military groups, and peoples. The first year this holiday was celebrated was 1981.

To inaugurate the day, the “Peace Bell” is rung at UN Headquarters (in New York City, United States). The bell is cast from coins donated by children from all continents. It was given as a gift by Sachin Tendulkar, and is referred to as “a reminder of the human cost of war.” The inscription on its side reads: “Long live absolute world peace.”

Individuals can also wear White Peace Doves to commemorate the International Day of Peace, which are badges in the shape of a dove produced by a non-profit in Canada.

God’s Will for you is complete peace and joy.

Peace is inevitable in your experience of awakening from your dream of a human existence. You cannot get peace nor have peace as a result of your ‘doing’ in the world, no matter how much effort you exert in your well-meant attempts to make this world a better place.

But you will give peace in order to have it, because you are PEACE. Peace is the bridge that everyone will cross, to leave this world behind. But peace begins within the world perceived as different, and leading from this fresh perception to the gate of Heaven and the way beyond. Peace is the answer to conflicting goals, to senseless journeys, frantic, vain pursuits, and meaningless endeavors.

This is a paragraph in the key-lesson 200 of A Course in Miracles, “There is no peace except the Peace of God.” If you have come that far and can hear that, you are entitled to know the truth that God’s Will for you is perfect happiness – complete peace without an opposite.

Do you want IT now?

This is the crucial decision everyone must make to remember God and the Peace HE has given you. To mean you want the peace of God is to renounce all dreams. What is it you are dreaming? What makes up your world from which you seek release in peace? Are you ready to deny the ego entirely and hand your will and life over to the care of God?

The eternal are in peace and joy forever. The mortal are in conflict, competition, war and retaliation. They defend themselves, see a need to protect their little lives from the evil forces they believe are out there to terrorize them. They are vulnerable to be attacked. And because it is what they fear, they attack. They are afraid of everyone and everything, justifying their separation anxiety. They do not know of a gratitude that gives them peace. These are the human beings’ values of the world you see. Peace in the world is considered to be the interval between two wars. And this interval with its daily struggles, decisions for a better future and holding your values under control is nothing but your war against yourself. Can you look at this with me for a moment reasonably, please? What you need to understand is that the ego is insane.

The ego’s voice is a hallucination…. Hallucinations are inaccurate perception of reality…. If you do not want them on the basis of loss of peace, they will be removed from your mind for you. Every response to the ego is a call to war, and war does deprive you of peace.

The mind that accepts attack cannot love. That is because it believes it can destroy love, and therefore does not understand what love is. If it does not understand what love is, it cannot perceive itself as loving. This loses the awareness of being, induces feelings of unreality and results in utter confusion… The ingeniousness of the ego to preserve itself is enormous… The ego cannot afford to know anything. Knowledge is total, and the ego does not believe in totality. This unbelief is its origin, and while the ego does not love you it is faithful to its own antecedents, begetting as it was begotten. Mind always reproduces as it was produced. Produced by fear, the ego reproduces fear. This is its allegiance, and this allegiance makes it treacherous to love because you are love. Love is your power, which the ego must deny. It must also deny everything this power gives you because it gives you everything. No one who has everything wants the ego. Its own maker, then, does not want it. Rejection is therefore the only decision the ego could possibly encounter, if the mind that made it knew itself. And if it recognized any part of the Sonship, it would know itself. The ego therefore opposes all appreciation, all recognition, all sane perception and all knowledge….

This is your mind. Reject the ego and recognize the truth of yourself Who IS Peace. As an ego the mind believes to live a little “life” in the world as a body with other bodies, believes in conflict and competition with each other and sees no other “alternative” than to find its ultimate release in death. “The earlier the better! Let’s go to war and die for each other and the nation. Then we might find some sense for our being here,” in this hell where people shoot on people out of cars and the nations prime cause for a non-violent death has become overeating. For whatever you look for in this world to feel better: relationships, having a successful job, sports activities, alcohol, smoking or drugs of any kind etc., death remains like an iron fist in your neck. How many sports idols and celebrities do you need to feel a little worthy here?

Seek peace not outside yourself to find a crumb of it in your world. Either it is all there is for you or nothing. Stop trying to find peace through analyzing and verifying your human experience. I am offering you the whole truth.

That is all the world of the ego is. Nothing. It has no meaning. It does not exist. Do not try to understand it because, if you do, you are believing that it can be understood and is therefore capable of being appreciated and loved. That would justify its existence, which cannot be justified. You cannot make the meaningless meaningful. This can only be an insane attempt.

The peace of God can never be contained…. Who recognizes it within himself must give it. The Peace of God is shining in you now and all living things. In quietness is it acknowledged universally. For what your inward vision looks upon is your perception of the universe.

The mind which means that all it wants is peace must join with other minds, for that is how peace is obtained. And when the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is given, in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.

Listen…This is Jesus speaking to you. As God sent me to you so will I send you to others. And I will go to them with you, so we can teach them peace and union. Do you not think the world needs peace as much as you do? Do you not want to give it to the world as much as you want to receive it? For unless you do, you will not receive it. If you want to have it of me, you must give it.

I thank you so much for receiving this. With the power of your mind you will make the decision to want only peace, because you already made it. The power of decision is your own, and with your uncompromising turning to the Light and remembering the truth, peace is all you are. You are as God created you, and there is no peace except the Peace of God. Amen.

By Devavan

United Nations in New York
Tuesday, September 19, 2000

“May Peace Prevail on Earth”

Every year on the third Tuesday of the month, the United Nations celebrates Peace Day. On that day, dignitaries ring the Peace Bell and everyone observes one minute of silence for peace. This officially marks the opening of the UN General Assembly sessions. This year, however, Peace Day was a little more special.

Year 2000 has been proclaimed ‘International Year for the Culture of Peace’ (IYCP) by the General Assembly. For many countries and many organizations around the world this was a clear signal to create a large variety of programs and events of all forms and colors, to promote peace and its implementation in people’s lives. This year, Peace Day was renamed ‘Millennium Peace Day’ and was also the occasion to celebrate and to present the fruits of some of these projects.

Millennium Peace Day started with special activities directly aimed for the unique gathering for the day of about 250 young children of America and the rest of the world. Signing, dancing, creative drawing, etc… were at the agenda producing a beautiful atmosphere of joy and lightness. Everyone was cheerful and hopeful saying: “May Peace Prevail on Earth” in total unison.

A total of 60 millions signatures was announced…
At 12:00 noon, there was the ringing of the Peace Bell. Mr. Harri Holkeri – the UN General Assembly President, Mrs. Nane Annan – wife of the Secretary General of the UN, Mrs Nohara Puyana de Pastana – First Lady of Columbia, Mr. Abdalla Balali – Ambassador of Algeria, Mr. Anwarul Karim Chowdury – Ambassador of Bangladesh, Mr. Anthony Garothino – Governor of Rio de Janeiro, Mr Alfath Hamad – Officer-in-charge at the UNESCO, New York and a little girl from Brazil rang the Bell. Immediately after, Deborah Moldow, one of the organizers of the Millennium Peace Day, asked everyone to observe one minute of silence wishing for peace to prevail on all five continents.

Following this beautiful, peaceful silence, three important projects for the IYCP were presented to the dignitaries for the UN. ‘The Cloth of Many Colors’, a one mile long quilt made of cloth pieces from all corners of the world, was officially presented and symbolically handed over to Mrs. Annan. The ‘Peace Poem’, a four football fields long roll of peace verses collected from people of all origins, was presented and handed over. Finally, children from India, Brazil, Columbia and Algeria symbolically presented the numerous signatures that their countries have collected for the ‘Manifesto 2000′ to Mr. Holkeri. A total of 60 millions signatures was announced as having been cumulated up to now.

By far the largest contribution of signatures for ‘Manifesto 2000′ came from India. With the remarkable participation of the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BKWSU), over 30 million people from all corners of India signed the Manifesto after agreeing to apply peace in their lives. B.K. Purnimaa Sethi (14 years old), the chosen Indian youth representative, met with Mr. Holkeri of the UN and handed him two reports prepared for the occasion, detailing the substantial work of the BKWSU for the IYCP.

The second largest contribution of signatures for Manifesto came from Columbia. A team of young Colombians presented more than 12 millions signatures collected in their country alone. This means that 1/3 of the Colombian population has agreed to implement peace in their lives. The first Lady of Columbia proudly accompanied the delegation for this special day.

To close the Year 2000 Millennium Peace Day, the Japanese delegation presented ‘Peace Boat’, very colorful and dynamic dances illustrating one or another point of the ‘Manifesto’. ‘Peace Boat’ has traveled many countries in the last few months to raise the awareness and collect signature for peace. For the last dance, everyone spontaneously joined in, creating a very joyful and vibrant gathering wishing from the heart that “Peace Prevails on Earth”.
On the Manifesto 2000
MANIFESTO 2000 is a document drafted by a group of Nobel Prize Laureates for this, the “International Year for the Culture of Peace”.

ITS TASK is to a mass 100 million signatures and present them to the United Nations Millennium General Assembly. (Presented over than 60 million signatures on September 19, 2000.)

* Each signature represents a personal pledge by people like you to put aspects of Manifesto 2000 into practice, in daily life.

* Each pledge is a step towards a global change in values, attitudes and behaviour, from a culture of war and violence to a culture of peace and non-violence.

MANIFESTO 2000 IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO:

Respect all life; Reject violence; Share with others; Listen to understand; Preserve the planet; Rediscover solidarity.

“Since wars begin in the minds of men, so it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed. “From the UNESCO constitution.

Sign the manifesto today for the tomorrow you wish your child to see.

Please sign at www.unesco.org/manifesto2000 and forward this message on to your family, friends and contacts.