There is a great opportunity coming up to build the peace movement by supporting or creating anew a powerful local event on the International Day of Peace.Weve got all the resources you could want below and if something is missing, let us know!

September 21is the International Day of Peace, first celebrated in 1982 and recognized annually by many nations and organizations, including day-long pauses in wars that reveal how easy it would be to have year-long or forever-long pauses in wars.

This could not be more critical than at this moment of escalating genocide in Gaza, the ongoing devastation of the war in Ukraine, horrific militarized violence in Sudan and the Congo, and military spending skyrocketing across much of the globe.

This is a good day on which to work for permanent peace and to remember the victims of war.Below are events you can join, and resources you can use to support those events or to organize new ones.

Its also a good idea to ask your local government topass a resolutionhonoring the International Day of Peace.

You can also take the occasion to promote the upcomingGlobal Day of Education to #CloseBases.

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