A Season of Interfaith Celebration
& 11 Days of Global Unity
September 11-21, 2009
September 11: |
September 21:
The International Day of Peace & Call For Global Ceasefire |
Eleven Days To...
Transform the World's Wounds of 2001 Strengthen partnerships among grassroots peace builders Participate in prayer and meditation events for global healing along with millions worldwide |
Sponsored By
Association for Global New Thought
Seasons for Peace and Nonviolence
Unity World Day of Prayer
Pathways to Peace /
Culture of Peace Initiative
M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence
United Religions Initiative
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| "Humanity stands at a crossroads between horror and hope. In choosing hope, we must seed a new consciousness, a radically fresh approach to life drawing its inspiration from perennial spiritual and moral insights, intuition and experience. We call this new awareness Interspiritual, implying not the homogenization of religion, but the recovering of the shared mystic heart beating in the center of the world's deepest spiritual traditions." |
| Wayne Teasdale, The Mystic Heart |
The UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/55/282 fixes the date for the International Day of Peace as 21 September and declares "that the International Day of Peace shall henceforth be observed as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, an invitation to all nations and people to honour a cessation of hostilities for the duration of the Day..."
Resolution 55/282 also "Declares that the International Day of Peace shall henceforth be observed as a day of global ceasefire and nonviolence, an invitation to all nations and people to honor a cessation of hostilities for the duration of the Day."
All 191 member countries of the United Nations agreed to honor September 21, The International Day of Peace, as a Global Ceasefire and a day of peace and nonviolence.
For the past 24 years, the International Day of Peace has been a catalyzing opportunity for individuals, nations and civil society to unite in our shared yearning for a more peaceful, just and sustainable world. Thousands of events and activities have taken place for the International Day of Peace, coordinated by governments, agencies and a network of more than 800 civil society organizations in over 106 nations. www.internationaldayofpeace.org
2007 marked the 10th anniversary of the Association for Global New Thought and the M.K. Gandhi Institute's pilot project known widely as the Gandhi King Season for Nonviolence. It was a landmark for putting the impact of community leadership in nonviolence on the map. A new model for omni-local, spiritually-based peace governance has emerged successfully, igniting entire communities everywhere. The Season for Nonviolence project evolved through our collective, exemplary leadership in more than 400 cities in the U.S. and 18 other countries during the past ten Seasons, which bookend the memorial anniversaries of Gandhi (Jan 30) and Martin Luther King Jr. (April 4).
Our next decade ushers in perennial Seasons for Peace and Nonviolence (SPAN), in which unwavering nonviolence in thought, emotion, word, and action becomes our chosen way of life.
The (SPAN) campaign continues into the next decade with a year-round series of offerings coordinated by PEACEPORT OFFICES in your own centers and organizations. The first is the Season of Interfaith Celebration in September, 2007, continuing to the end of the year.
In September 2004, We, The World inaugurated this international promotion of peace and sustainability
with more than 120 cities participating worldwide. Supporters of the launch included Nobel Peace
Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Honorary Co-Chairs Jane Goodall, Deepak Chopra, Irene Khan
(Secretary General of Amnesty International), Marianne Williamson, John McConnell (the original
Founder of Earth Day), Hazel Henderson, Ervin Laszlo, Jonathan Granoff, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Robert
Thurman, Sally Fisher, Riane Eisler, Lynne Twist, Paul Winter, Nina Meyerhof, and NYC Councilman
Alan J. Gerson. In 2005, 11 Days included more than 200 events in over 60 countries.
www.wetheworld.org/wtw2/11days/index.php4
We invite you to be involved in a worldwide interfaith vigil on September 14. to experience a transformation of health, abundance, and love on a global level. Wherever you are on that day, you'll share moments of prayer with others of like mind-your prayer partners united in positive attitude, understanding, and love. Provide Unity with the names of those you'd like recognized in prayer during their 24-hour prayer vigil in the Silent Unity Chapel on that day and for thirty more days of continuous prayer afterward. You may also choose to join in from a church or center in your community.
World Day of Prayer is a sacred time to unite in prayer. If you would like more information, please visit www.worlddayofprayer.org to request materials, to submit names for prayer, to view the affirmation with audio/video, and more.
It was on September 11, 1906, that M. K. Gandhi launched the first nonviolent campaign against racial
oppression in Johannesburg, South Africa, and later he said "There is no way to peace, Peace is the way."
Gandhi concluded that true peace can be achieved only when human society stopped indulging in economic
violence, cultural violence, social violence, religious violence, educational violence, moral violence and
political violence. Peace is contingent upon each of us becoming "the change we wish to see in the world."
www.gandhiinstitute.org