PEOPLE BUILDING PEACE 2005

NEWS ARCHIVE

With this event War Child Holland, in cooperation with Red Carpet Entertainment and other Dutch peace organizations, raised attention for the International Day of Peace and more specifically for the importance of ‘peace building’ and ‘conflict prevention’.

The International Day of Peace was first established in 1981 by a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly. In 2001 another resolution was agreed  to fix the date annually on 21 September and for it to be a day of nonviolence and cease-fire. The resolution was adopted unanimously by the Member States of the General Assembly.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE The International Day of Peace “is meant to be a day of global cease-fire, when all countries and all people stop all hostilities for the entire day. And it is a day on which people around the world observe a minute of silence at 12 noon local time. -- Kofi Annan -- UN Secretary-General 21 September 2005

Amongst the people calling for Peace were hundreds of children (many asylum seekers) and politicians, artists and musicians like Hedy d’ Ancona, Laetitia Griffith, Varina Tjon A Tjen, Freek de Jonge, Marco Borsato, Brace, Brainpower, and many many more.

See below for pictures of the events:

After the event everybody put their feet- and hand (or paw) print  on the peace sign and wrote their own message of peace.

Politicians, youngsters, kids, elderly people, artist and musicians all agreed that peace is a subject that is important to a lot of people.

Young graffiti artists from all ethnic backgrounds from the Balkan together with Dutch children painted the peace sign in many different colors.

This event was made possible thanks to the help of many different parties. War Child would like to thank many the companies  that all sponsored materials and hands, and their enthusiastic contribution to the International Day of Peace.