Community Action
For the 21 September every year Peace One Day leads a global campaign of widespread community action and celebration in every continent. Peace One Day encourages people to organise their own events and activities in their local community and join their family and friends in action on Peace Day. Past years such events have included Peace Day walks, discussions, poetry readings, assemblies, concerts, art and photography exhibitions, sport events and screenings of Peace One Day films. The project aims to institutionalise Peace Day and generate grassroots activity in all 193 member states of the United Nations. In 2007 the director of United Nations News and Media Department, Ahmad Fawzisaw stated: "over 100 million people, in over 100 countries are marking the day, today in many different ways,"
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