Jude Law and Jeremy Gilley Launch Countdown to Global Truce With Concert at the O2 Arena London
By Peace One Day, PRNEMonday, June 20, 2011
LONDON, June 21, 2011 -
On 21 September, the non-profit organisation Peace One Day begins a
year-long countdown to a Global Truce on Peace Day 2012.
The first of a series of three concerts will feature artists Eliza
Doolittle, Youssou NDour, Afroreggae, Flawless and the English
National Ballet, with further artists to be announced. Speakers
will include Jude law and Peace One Day founder and filmmaker
Jeremy Gilley.
The O2 Arena concert is the biggest event yet for
Gilley’s Peace One Day campaign, which in 2001 led a process that
resulted in the unanimous adoption by UN member states of the first
ever annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence.
This day is now fixed in the global calendar every year: 21
September is Peace Day.
Jeremy Gilley said: “Peace One Day is calling for a Global Truce on
Peace Day 2012. We have a clear strategy and we hope this will be
the largest reduction in global violence in recorded history, both
domestically and internationally. This day is as much about
non-violence in our schools, our homes, workplace and local
communities as it is about ceasefire on the international
stage.
“Everyone has a role to play. The O2 Arena show launches
a 365-day countdown. I’m so grateful to all the artists for giving
their time to help Peace One Day take this message to the people of
the world.”
Eliza Doolittle said, “When I heard about Peace One Day, what
they have achieved & what they are now going for, a Global
Truce on Peace Day 2012, I had to become involved. You can
too. Come to the O2 Arena on 21 September this
year and go to
find out more. POD is a ground breaking initiative and I’m
proud to be a part of it.”
The O2 Arena show, which will be filmed in HD and
broadcast internationally, is the first in a trilogy of Peace One
Day concerts produced as part of the London 2012 Festival.
The second show - in Derry-Londonderry on June 21, 2012 - is the
opening event of the London 2012 Festival and marks the three-month
countdown to the Global Truce. The third show will take place on
the day of Global Truce itself, Peace Day 21 September 2012.
Since the adoption of the Peace Day resolution in 2001, activities
on 21 September have enabled families to be reunited, mosquito nets
and food aid to be delivered and children to be vaccinated all over
the world, as this ceasefire and non-violence day creates a window
of opportunity for humanitarian efforts.
In 2007, Jeremy Gilley and Jude Law travelled to Afghanistan to
spearhead an initiative that has resulted in the vaccination
against polio of 4.5 million children following Peace Day
agreements by all parties in the region in 2007/8/9. This work
forms the culmination of Gilley’s feature documentary The Day After
Peace.
“I’ve seen how Peace Day saves lives,” says Law. “Peace One Day is
inviting all sectors of society to observe a Global Truce on Peace
Day September 21, 2012. It’s up to all of us to get involved.”
Jeremy Gilley’s next feature documentary (produced by Gilley and
Law) will culminate in the Global Truce on Peace Day 2012, against
the backdrop of London 2012 activities.
Others who have supported Peace One Day include Annie Lennox, Kofi
Annan, Ban Ki-moon, Angelina Jolie, Lenny Kravitz, Kasabian, Bryan
Adams, Peter Gabriel, Yusuf (formerly Cat Stevens), Patti Smith,
Charlie Winston, Youssou NDour, Jonny Lee Miller, Joseph Fiennes,
Kate Nash, Corinne Bailey Rae, Dave Stewart, Jimmy Cliff,
Faithless, James Morrison, -M-, Yodelice, Vanessa Paradis, Ayo, and
millions of people across the world. The Peace One Day 2011
O2 Arena show is a Peace One Day Production in as part of the
London 2012 Festival.
Peace One Day presents
The Peace One Day Celebration 2011 “Truce” as part of the London
2012 Festival
Tickets go on sale at 9:00 on Friday 24 June.
To book tickets call +44(0)844-856-0202 or
+44(0)871-231-0835
Or purchase online at
About Peace One Day
Jeremy Gilley is an actor turned filmmaker, who in the late 1990s
became preoccupied with questions about the fundamental nature of
humanity and the issue of peace. He decided to explore these
through the medium of film, and specifically, to create a
documentary following his campaign to establish an annual day of
ceasefire and non-violence. In 1999, Jeremy founded Peace One Day,
a non-profit organisation, and in 2001 Peace One Day’s efforts were
rewarded when the member states of the United Nations unanimously
adopted the first ever day of global ceasefire and non-violence on
21 September annually - Peace Day.
With the day in place, Peace One Day is working to institutionalise
Peace Day, making it a day that is self-sustaining, an annual day
of global unity, a day of intercultural cooperation on a scale that
humanity has never known. Peace Day has already been proven as a
window for life-saving activities; in 2007, Gilley and POD
ambassador Jude travelled to Afghanistan to spearhead an initiative
that has resulted in the vaccination against polio of 4.5 million
children following Peace Day agreements by all parties in the
region in 2007/8/9. This work forms the culmination of Gilley’s
feature documentary The Day After Peace.
By 2007, over 100 million people (source UN) were active on Peace
Day, in 192 countries. For Peace Day 2012, POD is calling for
and working towards a day of global ceasefire and non-violence - a
Global Truce, for which POD is engaged in an extensive, diplomatic
and grassroots communications exercise; POD hopes that this will be
the largest reduction in global violence in recorded history, both
domestically and internationally. To find out how you can
help, visit
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