People Building Peace is the international public awareness campaign of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC). It highlights the contributions of civil society to preventing violent conflict and building peace, and the impact that 'people power' brings to transform lives and communities in the shadow of violence. On People Building Peace - the Stories you can find over a hundred case studies of civil society peacebuilding and see the difference people are making around the world!

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE 2010

21 September is the UN International Day of Peace, a day of cease fire and non–violence. Every year the GPPAC network encourages people to celebrate together, spreading a worldwide call for peace, and gathers announcements and reports of Peace Day.

This year GPPAC celebrated the day through a special section on the Peace Portal, where we collected and promoted announcements of activities that were being organised around the world, giving everyone a chance to comment, rate, and share what they were doing.

All of the events are displayed on the main page of the Peace Portal's International Day of Peace 2010 section as well as each having a separate individual page on the portal. If you like, you can have a look here.

With 21 September 2010 now behind us, we would love to know how everyone marked the day. We are currently collecting reports about the actual celebrations in order to share them all on the Peace Portal! Would you like to tell us what you did on Peace Day? If yes, please send a report, together with pictures or videos you made to Matteo at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it .

For useful information on awareness raising and campaigning, please take a look at our Awareness Raising Toolkit, which is now available in Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Russian and Spanish. You can download the GPPAC newsletter of 2008 with an overview of 21/9 events here (pdf, 1,8 MB).