an international youth seminar for peace

JEREMY GILLEY – PEACE ONE DAY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Jeremy Gilley is a social entrepreneur, filmmaker, actor and businessman. Following a lucrative acting career, Jeremy began making his own films before founding the non-profit film project, Peace One Day in 1999. The film presented the World with Jeremy’s efforts to establish a day of global ceasefire and non-violence, every year. Subsequent to his campaign, United Nations member states unanimously adopted a General Assembly resolution in September 2001. The resolution saw to it that 21st September was from then on established as the UN International Day of Peace. Peace One Day, as an organization, operates across music and film, dance, sports and education as well as embracing the evolving technologies within the Internet, and through these means Peace One Day has been proven to work. Millions of people from all over the World have taken part in Peace Day and, since it was established, areas of conflict have now been accessible to organizations looking to carry out important work for the community. Peace One Day ambassador, Jude Law, and Jeremy Gilley lead a campaign that has resulted in 4.5 million Afghan children receiving polio vaccinations who would otherwise have been inaccessible. Peace One Day’s main objective is to create global unity and cooperation to make Peace Day self- sustaining; a notion that has not been attempted nor even openly contemplated before. Peace Day 2011 saw Jeremy Gilley launch the Global Truce campaign – an effort to assemble the largest number of individuals, from across the World, in the name of peace with the view to measure the reduction in World violence. Building a series of networks and enabling organizations to show off and be inspired by each other’s Peace Day plans, are part of the concept. Jeremy is also developing methods to measure how successful his campaign is each year and what can be done to ensure it does better the next. Peace One Day and Jeremy’s role within it is all about raising awareness of Peace Day. This includes collaborating with the relevant people, companies and charities and stems out to making globally-viewed documentaries, as well as organizing concerts attended by some of the biggest names in music. Gilley has spoken at a number of high profile events, and won numerous awards as a result of his efforts. He has also written a children’s book.