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. If you would like to know how people from all around the world celebrated the 2009 21st of September go to our International Day of Peace 2009 events page, or download our newsletter about the day in 2009. GPPAC also held an international campaign, calling upon people around the world to send us pictures of themselves symbolising that “Peace is possible”, along with a short sentence or slogan. We created a video out of the pictures collected, which gives a visual idea of how big the global call for peace worldwide is. You can have a look at the result of our campaign campaign here.

What are you doing to celebrate this year? Send an e-mail to Matteo at This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it , telling us what you are planning, who can participate, and how they can contact you!

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).