21 September 2009

GPPAC works to promote conflict prevention and peacebuilding at both a conceptual and practical level. As such, the UN International Day of Peace - which falls on 21 September and calls for a 24-hour global ceasefire - represents an excellent opportunity to promote our agenda. Click here to see what GPPAC members did around the world in 2008, and be sure to check back often as we're already in the process of planning for 2009!

 

 

People Building Peace:

The Stories

A collection of inspiring and often remarkable stories of how civil society has made, or is currently making, a difference in conflict areas around the world.

 

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

 

 

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21 September, the annual UN International Day of Peace, has been celebrated with great enthusiasm all over the world. We have received many announcements that aimed at raising global awareness for the importance of peace and cease fire. Our GPPAC partners and many others marked the day, and as in previous years we kept you updated on what was going on around the world. From now on wil wil post the outcomes, reports and photomaterial on this webite. Did you organising an event? And would you like to have the result of you event included in our printed newsletter? Let us know by sending an e-mail to Annabel Meurs 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 2007 with an overview of 21/9 events here (pdf, 1,8 MB)

 

Finally, join the global campaign! Use People Building Peace blue-ipd

as a slogan for your event, translated in many different languages; click here to read more

 

 

 

 


 

 


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