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On #InternationalDayOfPeace, it is timely to reflect on the relationship between #Democracy and #Peace.
Explore the evidence review of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) here: https://www.wfd.org/what-we-do/resources/democracy-security-global-evidence
IFOR Austria - Versöhnungsbund - Frieden und Sicherheit in Europa neu gedacht: Veröffentlichung der Europäischen Friedensstrategie am Weltfriedenstag
42 konkrete Vorschläge für eine aktive europäische Friedenspolitik
„From reaction to prevention, from militarism to Peace“
🌐 https://www.versoehnungsbund.at/european-peace-strategy/
#PeaceDay #Weltfriedenstag #InternationalDayOfPeace #Gewaltverbot #Frieden #StandForPeace
CW: Occasional Foul Language. Always Political.
On this International Day of Peace, @50501movement.bsky.social celebrates the pursuit of peace with a recap of just how peaceful this administration has been (& ways to help hold our country accountable). #InternationalDayOfPeace
Link: https://bsky.app/profile/50501movement.bsky.social/post/3mw2syc7ozk2p
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Today is #InternationalDayOfPeace!
The number of people who lost their lives as a result of #armed #conflicts in 2025 was the second highest since 2000.
#GlobalHealth #GlobalGoals #SDGs #2030Agenda #UN #WHO #SDG16 #war #peace #conflict #ArmedConflict
Data source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program 2026, processed by Our World in Data. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/deaths-in-armed-conflicts?time=2000..latest
https://www.europesays.com/3264689/ International Day of Peace: Experts warn unresolved trauma could keep Kenya trapped in cycles of violence #2007/08PostElectionViolence #AfricaConflicts #Conflicts #geopolitics #Headlines #InternationalDayOfPeace #InternationalDayOfPeace:ExpertsWarnUnresolvedTraumaCouldKeepKenyaTrappedInCyclesOfViolence #News #PsychologicalTrauma #UNHCRKenya
https://www.europesays.com/3264689/ International Day of Peace: Experts warn unresolved trauma could keep Kenya trapped in cycles of violence #2007/08PostElectionViolence #AfricaConflicts #Conflicts #geopolitics #Headlines #InternationalDayOfPeace #InternationalDayOfPeace:ExpertsWarnUnresolvedTraumaCouldKeepKenyaTrappedInCyclesOfViolence #News #PsychologicalTrauma #UNHCRKenya
International Day of Peace: Experts warn unresolved trauma could keep Kenya trapped in cycles of violence
As the world marks the International Day of Peace, community leaders and experts are calling for greate…
#Conflict #Conflicts #War #2007/08post-electionviolence #Africaconflicts #geopolitics #Headlines #InternationalDayofPeace #InternationalDayofPeace:ExpertswarnunresolvedtraumacouldkeepKenyatrappedincyclesofviolence #News #psychologicaltrauma #UNHCRKenya
https://www.europesays.com/3264689/
September 21st (since 1982) - The International Day of Peace was established by United Nations resolution in 1981 and first celebrated in 1982 (then as the 3rd Tuesday of the month).
2026 Theme: Invest in Peace - For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.
On 21 September, the world marks the International Day of Peace.
Today, amidst staggering volatility, the search for peace feels overwhelming—but it has never been more urgent.
Peace is more than the absence of war; it is the foundation necessary to collectively tackle humanity’s challenges. It is the lived experience of safety, dignity, opportunities and cooperation in our daily lives.
Türkiye vows to continue diplomacy for ‘fairer world’
In a message on the International Day of Peace, the head of the Turkish Presidency’s Communications Directorate underlined…
#EuropeSays #Turkiye #Türkiye #burhanettinduran #Diplomacy #INTERNATIONALDAYOFPEACE
https://www.europesays.com/turkiye/53126/
International Day of Peace: Nice Idea. Now What?
By Cliff Potts, Editor-in-Chief, WPS News
BAYBAY CITY, LEYTE, PHILIPPINES — September 21, 2026 — 22:00 PHT
Every September 21, the world observes the United Nations International Day of Peace.
And every September 21, there is an obvious question worth asking:
Does any of this actually do anything?
That isn’t an argument against peace. Peace is a wonderful idea. Most people would probably prefer that nobody bomb their neighborhood, shoot their children, sink their fishing boats, invade their country, or send them off to die because two governments have decided they can no longer tolerate one another.
That part is easy.
The harder question is whether declaring an International Day of Peace changes anything—or whether we’re participating in another annual exercise in institutional warm-and-fuzziness.
One Day Without Killing Each Other
The United Nations established the International Day of Peace in 1981. In 2001, the General Assembly went considerably further, permanently establishing September 21 as a day of global ceasefire and nonviolence and inviting nations and people engaged in conflict to stop fighting for the day (United Nations, 2001).
Think about that proposition for a moment.
One day.
Twenty-four hours.
Humanity has not exactly demonstrated an impressive ability to manage even that.
The United Nations cannot simply order the world’s armies, militias, insurgencies, governments, terrorists, revolutionaries, and assorted heavily armed lunatics to knock it off until tomorrow morning. The UN operates through member states, international law, diplomacy, peacekeeping and cooperation. Its authority has very real limits.
So yes, skepticism is justified.
But skepticism doesn’t necessarily make the idea worthless.
The Warm-and-Fuzzy Problem
This year’s theme is “Invest in Peace: For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.” The UN says peace means more than the absence of war; it includes safety, dignity, opportunity and cooperation. It also emphasizes people working within communities to bridge divisions and prevent violence (United Nations Peacekeeping, 2026).
That’s admirable.
It also sounds exactly like something designed by an international committee to look good on a poster.
The danger with commemorations like International Day of Peace is that symbolism becomes a substitute for action. Governments can talk about peace while purchasing weapons. Political leaders can praise dialogue while demonizing opponents. Countries can endorse international law when it protects their interests and suddenly discover creative interpretations of it when it doesn’t.
Ring the peace bell. Issue the statement. Take the photograph.
Then everybody gets back to business tomorrow.
If that’s all International Day of Peace amounts to, then critics are right. It’s political theater.
Except There Is Something Underneath It
There is another possibility.
Maybe the value isn’t that September 21 produces peace.
Maybe its value is that September 21 forces us to define what we’re supposedly trying to achieve.
Peace isn’t everybody agreeing.
It isn’t surrender. It isn’t weakness. It isn’t pretending injustice doesn’t exist. And it certainly isn’t allowing stronger nations or stronger people to do whatever they want while everybody else politely keeps quiet.
Peace is building institutions capable of resolving disputes without somebody eventually reaching for a weapon.
That’s harder than putting a dove on a poster.
It requires functioning courts, credible diplomacy, trustworthy institutions, economic opportunity, human rights and governments willing to accept that sometimes they don’t get everything they want.
The United Nations itself is imperfect because the countries composing it are imperfect. It can be bureaucratic, political, frustrating and sometimes spectacularly ineffective.
But here’s the uncomfortable part.
What exactly is the alternative?
A world without a place where 193 governments can at least sit in the same room and argue is not obviously an improvement.
So Commemorate the Damn Day
Not because the United Nations declared it.
Not because somebody designed a hashtag.
And not because we’re supposed to spend twenty-four hours feeling good about ourselves.
Commemorate International Day of Peace because human beings have spent thousands of years demonstrating just how easy war is.
Peace is the difficult part.
If September 21 accomplishes nothing more than reminding us that peace is something humanity has to deliberately construct, defend and repair, then maybe the day earns its square on the calendar.
Just don’t confuse commemorating peace with actually creating it.
Those are two very different things.
Sources
United Nations. (2001). International Day of Peace: Resolution adopted by the General Assembly (A/RES/55/282). United Nations Digital Library.
United Nations. (2026). International Day of Peace: 2026 messages.
United Nations Peacekeeping. (2026, September 21). International Day of Peace 2026: Invest in Peace—For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day.
#Diplomacy #globalConflict #God #History #InternationalDayOfPeace #InternationalRelations #israel #news #peace #Politics #UnitedNations #WPSNews
Listen to Jackie Kay read “George Square” on the Poetry Archive
https://poetryarchive.org/poem/george-square/
#Scottish #literature #peace #poem #poetry #InternationalDayofPeace
My seventy-seven-year-old father
put his reading glasses on
to help my mother do the buttons
on the back of her dress…
—Jackie Kay, “George Square”
published in LIFE MASK (Bloodaxe, 2005)
Today, 21 September, is the International Day of Peace
https://www.un.org/en/observances/international-day-peace
#Scottish #literature #peace #poem #poetry #InternationalDayofPeace
Möge das umfassende allgemeine Gewaltverbot endlich von allen respektiert und angewandt werden – um kriegerische Auseinandersetzungen hinter uns zu lassen und zu einem friedlichen Miteinander zurückzufinden!
🕊️ International Day of Peace ☮️
21 September
https://www.un.org/en/observances/international-day-peace
#PeaceDay #Weltfriedenstag #InternationalDayOfPeace #Gewaltverbot #Frieden #StandForPeace
International Day of Peace. The theme for 2026 is Invest in Peace - For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day
#InternationalPeaceDay #internationaldayofpeace #InvestInPeace
It is the year 2026.
Across Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, Sudan, Myanmar and the Congo, humanity wages war upon itself. The innocent suffer. The armies march. The guns thunder.
In the grim darkness of the present, there is only war.
#InternationalDayOfPeace
"Under the theme Invest in Peace: For Everyone, Everywhere, Every Day, this year’s International Day of Peace honours the 'everyday architects of peace'—people driving local action, laying the groundwork for stability, and building a lasting peace from the ground up."
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Today is International Day Of Peace aka World Peace Day! ☮️✌🏻🕊️😌
https://www.un.org/en/observances/international-day-peace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_Peace
#InternationalDayOfPeace #WorldPeaceDay #InternationalDayOfPeace2026 #WorldPeaceDay2026 #IDP #IDP2026 #WPD #WPD2026
Am 21. September ist International Day of Peace! 🕊️
Wer selbst aktiv werden möchte: Die UN stellt mit dem „Activist Toolkit: Hear Us. Act Now for a Peaceful World“ einen praktischen Leitfaden für Peace Circles bereit.
ℹ️ Infos zum Tag:
https://www.un.org/en/observances/international-day-peace
📄 Toolkit (PDF):
To end the weekend and the International Day Of Peace in style and beauty : "War And Peace" (2021) on Flemish radio radioplace2be.be!
Have a peaceful beginning of the week everyone!
"War & Peace 2021" on Youtube:
https://youtu.be/xl4COTUJO5w?si=ueHPfbpwdwSukpOt
#dimashbelgiandears #dimashonbelgianradio
#DimashQudaibergen #InternationalDayOfPeace
On this International Day of Peace we strive to promote peace, non-violence, and a global ceasefire. #InternationalDayOfPeace #JohnLennon #Peace ☮️
21 de septiembre. Día internacional de la Paz… ¿Era "paz", no? Pé, a, zeta. Se escribía así, ¿verdad?
#internationaldayofpeace #peaceday #peace
International Day of Peace.
#peaceday #goal #peace #internationaldayofpeace #sdgs #globalgoals #peaceoneday #impact #peacebuilding #september #unitednations #un #world #internationalpeaceday #sdg #doyourpeace #sustainability #development #goals #envision #qualityconnections #liptonicetea #plus #avonworldwide #worldpeace #partnership #cybernonviolence #jeremygilley #lipton #instaunitednations Today, International Day of Peace is being celebrated. Today, people are made…
https://itsmostamazingindia.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/international-day-of-peace/
Today is International Day Of Peace aka World Peace Day! ☮️✌🏻🕊️😌
https://www.un.org/en/observances/international-day-peace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Day_of_Peace
#InternationalDayOfPeace #WorldPeaceDay #InternationalDayOfPeace2025 #WorldPeaceDay2025 #IDP #IDP2025 #WPD #WPD2025
The UN Secretary-General António Guterres' Message To The International Day Of Peace
21 September 2025
Our warring world is crying out for peace.
This year’s International Day of Peace urges each of us to give voice to that call.
Around the world lives are being ripped apart, childhoods extinguished, and basic human dignity discarded, amidst the cruelty and degradations of war.
Full Speech:
https://ukraine.un.org/en/301854-un-secretary-general-message-international-day-peace
#un #unsg #peace #AntónioGuterres #internationaldayofpeace #ukraine
As global #peace hits its lowest point since the Second World War, the #InternationalDayofPeace on September 21 offered a critical moment to reflect on and strengthen our peacebuilding efforts.
This year’s theme, ‘Cultivating a #CultureofPeace’, is a powerful reminder that for peace to be possible, everyone must play a part.
https://www.ipsnews.net/2024/09/cultivating-culture-peace-2/
On Coltrane's birthday
Saxophone karaoke heard
Playing Naima
#haiku #Jazz #InternationalDayOfPeace #Saxophone #Music #Satu4day #Today @Coltrane #Equinox https://youtu.be/WMZ8XZsumQs
Sending peace, loving kindness, + unicorns out into the universe today on World Peace Day 🌎🕊️
☮️🌟💟🌟🦄
#Today #Peace #WorldPeaceDay #InternationalDayOfPeace #LovingKindness #LeadWithKindness #Kindness #KindnessMatters #Unicorns
Today is the #InternationalDayOfPeace!
#ArmedConflicts led to 3⃣1⃣0⃣,0⃣0⃣0⃣ reported #battle #deaths in 2022, including #civilian #casualties. In 2023, the figure was 154,000 (UCDP).
#GlobalHealth #GlobalGoals #SDGs #2030Agenda #UN #SDG16 #war #peace #conflict #ArmedConflict #PeaceDay
https://www.uu.se/en/press/press-releases/2024/2024-06-03-ucdp-record-number-of-armed-conflicts-in-the-world
https://www.un.org/en/observances/international-day-peace
Happy International Day of Peace! May you have a peaceful day at the very least...
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