Talk:International Day of Peace

Merging
In 2009, there are now hundreds of organizations around the world involved with the "International Day of Peace" and trying to make the world a better place. This Wikipedia site should NOT be merged! It would be a disservice to all those people and organizations that have worked so hard to bring awareness to this important day. Although Jeremy Gilley's Peace One Day did play an important role in helping to set a permanent date versus the United Nation's original floating third week in September date, he is by far not representative of where the International Day of Peace movement is today. His organization represents just a small piece of the work that is currently being done and he is by far not the founder of the United Nation's Peace Day. You can view a sample of Peace Day events and organizations on the IDP www.internationaldayofpeace.org website (a U.N. messenger), www.wiserearth.org, www.thinkpeace.net, www.cultureofpeace.org and so on.

Please see "History of the International Day of Peace" below for information on how the International Day of Peace came about, how it was related to Sept. 11, 2001, why the Peace One Day campaign was important, and why these two articles should not be merged. And please observe the International Day of Peace every year on September 21st! Peacedeb (talk) 14:04, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

I came to this article and Peace One Day because I heard somewhere that Sept. 11, 2001 was declared a "World Day of Peace" (before the attacks, of course) and wanted to confirm if that was true. But, there's discrepancies between these two articles, this article says that Gilley made the proposal on September 7, 2001, which was not a Tuesday, not the day of the attacks, and not the last "old-style" Peace One Day. Because those two articles talk about similar things, I'm going to see how I can suggest they be merged. --Canuckguy 20:59, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

The IDP organization is separate from the "Peace One Day" drive. While the concepts which they push for are similar, they both of them represent, not only their goals, but also their organizations. I would recommend the creation of an article on "days of peace" which discusses them both; however, I believe that these two articles should remain, by themselves, separate. --Dak06 (talk) 15:09, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

Give Peace a Chance
Jungceylon the International Shopping & Leisure Destination at Patong, Phuket in Thailand is proud to be involved in the International Day of Peace on 21 September 2007. Join the United Nations and nations all around the world where we will devote this day to commemorate and strengthen the ideals of peace, as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence. All nations and all races are invited to honor a cessation of hostilities during this day. Jungceylon will have a 10 meter long Giant Peace Wall, that’s open to the entire public to come and write a message, paint a picture, or express in anyway what peace means to them and how they can touch someone else in the world. Also come and make your very own peace bracelet and join in on all the fun filled activities! We hope this day will provide an opportunity to inspire and empower individuals and communities to all around the world to keep this day going all year long. Let’s join hand and transform our societies and unite our global community to work together for a more peaceful, just and sustainable world for all.

For more information please visit: www.jungceylon.com, www.internationaldayofpeace.org, www.peaceoneday.org —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.147.22.147 (talk) 10:53, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Stamp "controversy"
I have removed that text. It is an inconsequential event, and does not need such long coverage in this article. I am restoring the material to encourage editors to reduce to the essentials. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 04:09, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

When only the UN POV was given, it was balanced, and now that a controversy about it mentioned, it is unbalanced? I'm not sure what is unbalanced about mentioning a controversy of the event. Readin (talk) 04:14, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps your statement about the event being "inconsequential" has some truth to it, though the newspapers and government thought it was consequential enough to write about it. However, if the degree to which an event is "consequential" is an important criteria for inclusion in Wikipedia, then the whole "International Day of Peace" article should be removed unless someone can show how it has had consequences (other than for the 23 million Taiwanese for whom it created another opportunity to have their dignity stepped on). Readin (talk) 04:18, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


 * By your comment, I can see that you may have a strong position on this issue. Nonetheless, the incident is not major, and undeserving of 50% of the article's text. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 04:28, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


 * It's only one paragraph. The fact that it is 50% of the article is not because there is a lot said about it, but because there isn't much else in the article.  If you can beef up the rest of the article, then that one paragraph will be less than 50%.  Or, I have to admit I'm not a great writer, perhaps you can shrink the paragrah while still providing the basis of the controversy and enough of both sides views to be balanced. Readin (talk) 04:36, 7 January 2008 (UTC)


 * The problem is that there are not really "two sides". This is not a symmetrical issue, is it? The International day of Peace is a celebration adopted a by a UN resolution. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 04:43, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * By the look of it, it looks like a mistake, blown out of proportion due to national sensibilities. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 04:46, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * (ec) It probably is worth a mention; are there really so few other things we can be writing about that this will end up dominating the article, though? In over 20 years of history, is this all we have to talk about? – Luna Santin  (talk) 04:44, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Luna, what is to be said about a celebration? ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 04:48, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Usually there are lots of things to say about a celebration. How the celebration originated, for starters, and that is covered by the article.  How the celebration is celebrated.  (Do people dress up?  What do they eat?  Where do they gather?)  Any particularly noteworthy events or controversies associated with the celebration.  Check out other examples, like Independence Day (United States).Readin (talk) 04:57, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Independence day is a day celebrated by the US and US citizens -- one mostly makes a barbecue and watch fireworks :) ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 05:14, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

2005 and 2007
According to the article, in 2005 and 2007 the UN Secretary General called for a 24 hour cease-fire. If there is any information saying whether a 24-hour cease fire occurred anywhere in response to his calls, or whether his calls were ignored anywhere, that information should be included as well. Readin (talk) 05:07, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * You are welcome to look for these sources. It is a commemorative day, symbolic in nature. ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 05:11, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
 * The UN calls for a one day cease fire, every year in that occasion ... ≈ jossi ≈ (talk) 05:12, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

History of the International Day of Peace (IDP)
The International Day of Peace was originally declared by a resolution of the UN General Assembly (A/RES/36/67), sponsored by Costa Rica, to coincide with the opening day of the GA, which was held annually on the third Tuesday in September. It was first observed in 1982. However in later year the UN General Assembly opened on other dates, as in 2001 when it opened on September 11 and International Day of Peace was scheduled to be observed on that date.

In the late 1990s, the General Assembly began to move its opening day from year to year, making it challenging for those outside the UN to know when to observe the Day, which by then had gathered momentum among civil society. Jeremy Gilley's Peace One Day campaign was instrumental in securing the General Assembly resolution in 2001 (A/RES/55/282), sponsored by Great Britain and Costa Rica, to set the International Day of Peace permanently on September 21st, beginning the following year. The irony is that the final IDP of the previous GA resolution was held on September 11, 2001.

The new resolution for the IDP calls for September 21st to be observed as a day of global ceasefire, and invites participation from civil society as well as governments. The International Day of Peace is celebrated by people all over the world, and is expanding its reach every year. There are proclamations by national and local governments, the ringing of bells, prayers and meditations, Peace Pole dedications, concerts and festivals, and many people take a moment of silence at 12 noon.

Although the Peace One Day campaign was very important in updating the UN resolution and calling attention to the International Day of Peace, the two are not the same and the articles should not be merged.

Peacedeb (talk) 14:01, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Examples of this actually working
From this article it is unclear which countries and organizations actually observe this day. Does Israel follow it? Does Hamas? Does ETA? Tamil Tigers? Shining Path? FARC? US military? 72.203.157.85 (talk) 01:00, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

reply
what is the peace according to you please email at afnan03@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.125.44.39 (talk) 18:03, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

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1983
We agreed that this item is not accurate in a conversation on November 5 between myself as author of Early History of the Culture of Peace: A Personal Memoire, David Wick, author of the article cited in the Wiki paragraph, Avon Mattison founder of Pathways to Peace and Tezekiah Gabriel, present Executive Director of Pathways to Peace. The item needs to be clarified and should be withdrawn pending retrieval of documentation of the culture of peace initiative by Pathways to Peace in the 1980’s. Adams1peace (talk) 21:51, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I've removed the year as it doesn't align with the Culture of Peace references on its main page. I didn't withdraw the entire tem for now because it is important to the timeline, although now it doesn't have a place in the timeline except as coming somewhere in-between the two items bracketing it. Since the year itself isn't consistent with the main article this request makes sense. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:57, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
 * I've entered a clarification based on all the information that I have available. It returns the date 1983 as the date when PTP began to make annual reports of the International Day of Peace.Adams1peace (talk) 09:54, 5 December 2019 (UTC)

Coin Donation
According to Japanese Peace Bell, the metal in the bell itself was obtained from coins "donated by delegates of 60 nations who were attending the 13th General Conference of United Nations Associations." The coins were collected from the delegates by children. Children were included as donors per one of the external references, but nowhere was Africa excluded. 60 nations were quoted as participating but I could not find a list. Some of the sourcing in the Japanese Peace Bell article is somewhat out of date- link on the UN site for Japanese Peace Bell results in a 404 error. Is there enough here to correct this article? CounterEarth (talk) 16:59, 21 September 2020 (UTC)