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Hoping to make a difference and help to bring calm in a troubled world, Gilley wrote to the United Nations to discuss an idea for a day when the entire globe would observe peace. Aided by his family, colleagues and friends, he wrote to presidents and prime ministers, Nobel Prize winners and religious leaders for help. After struggling for over two years, his realisation came true: the United Nations voted to name September 21 a day of cease-fire and nonviolence. He named it Peace One Day.
Author Notes
An actor for many years, Jeremy Gilley decided to start making his own films. Jeremy launched the film project Peace One Day to document his journey to establish a World Peace Day. As a result, two years later the member states of the UN unanimously adopted a day of global cease-fire and nonviolence fixed as September 21 annually. The documentary is being seen worldwide via cinema, television, and film festivals. To find out how you can see the film and get involved in Peace One Day, visit www.peaceoneday.org. Jeremy lives in London, England.
Reviews (4)
School Library Journal Review
Gr 3-6-Hoping to make a difference and help to bring calm in a troubled world, Gilley wrote to the United Nations to discuss an idea for a day when the entire globe would observe peace. In order to make it work, he decided a specific date was needed. As well as making it a day for global cease-fire and nonviolence, it would also be "A day for everyone in our homes, schools and communities around the world to stop fighting." Aided by his family, colleagues, and friends, he wrote to presidents and prime ministers, Nobel Prize winners and religious leaders for help. While meeting with dignitaries around the world, as well as visiting countries where conflicts were going on, he decided to film the poverty, destruction, and suffering from wars. Seeing the reality that children had to live with reaffirmed his desire to make a difference. After struggling for over two years, his realization came true. The United Nations voted to name September 21 a day of cease-fire and nonviolence. He named it Peace One Day. All of the pain, disappointment, and excitement in his dream are well documented. The combination of text and illustrations demonstrates the message that "everyone can make a difference." The clear, concise text appears with a collage of captioned photos and realistic drawings. Teachers and librarians can use the Web site provided for suggestions for individuals, families, and schools to celebrate Peace day.-Margaret R. Tassia, Millersville University, PA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Horn Book Review
Filmmaker Gilley documents his quest to have a world peace day established and his contacts with UN and world leaders toward that end. An overlong text joins dynamic photo-and-art montages showing Gilley's world travels; the many pictures of the people Gilley met (and a few of Gilley himself) will hold readers' interest. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
Kirkus Review
Begging to differ with those who believe that individuals cannot make a difference in the world, actor/filmmaker Gilley describes his own years-long campaign, documented in a feature-length film, to persuade the UN to designate September 21st as an annual World Peace Day. In his relentlessly positive account, corporate support for supplies and travel is there for the asking, world leaders and officials from the Dalai Lama to Kofi Annan personally urge him on, and the difficulties of filming in locales worldwide, of winning over the UN's bureaucracy, and then of organizing the holiday's 2002 kickoff, are but momentary bumps in the road. In distinct counterpoint to Gilley's upbeat narrative, though, Blessen illustrates with jagged, urgent montages of clipped headlines, quotes, slogans, colored pencil portraits and small color photos that, cumulatively, effectively underscore the real need for each and every peace initiative. Rather than close with specific suggestions, Gilley caps his inspirational manifesto with the suggestion that readers find their own creative ways of celebrating the day. Not a bad thought. (Web site) (Nonfiction. 8-10) Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Booklist Review
Gr. 4-6. In this handsome picture book, a young British filmmaker tells how he persuaded world leaders to establish World Peace Day. Well, not really. Since 1981 the UN has celebrated the International Day of Peace on the third Tuesday in September. What Gilley did was to convince them to declare a fixed date, September 21. His personal account of filming the consequences of war in several countries, from Somalia to the Middle East, draws attention to the issue, as do his accounts of meeting with world leaders, such as the Dalai Lama and Kofi Annan. Most powerful are the double-page collage illustrations contributed by Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Karen Blessen, which blend some of Gilley's film images of kids caught up in war and portraits of world peace leaders with colored pencil drawings, posters, and even news headlines. The passionate prose and stirring images show and tell that each person can make a difference. --Hazel Rochman Copyright 2005 Booklist