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Peace One Day TNQUTRE Fiveyears ago a struggiing29-year-old He borrowed money, cajoled family and friends ar-rd The pourer of one: Jelenry Gilley, or tlxe path to WOBDS film-maker named Jeremy Gilley had badgeredbusiness associates and corporations for support. He e*eating a worid day lor Walson an idea. Averybig idea. Increasingly setup an office in his mother's spare bedroom and recn-rited peaceu meets, seeond from PHOTOGHAPH frustrated and confu sed bythe violent volunteers and helpers. He organised fundraisingdinners and top, l{elson Mamde[a, and, above, Xoli Amnan Mark G state oftheworld and his inabilitvto use theatre events. In 1999, he held apress launch at London's to ameliorate it, and feelingpowerless to do anythingthat Globe Theatre, which the press assiduouslyignored. Yet still, ight make a difference, he hit upon the notion of establishing from that dayforth, he decided to documenthisjourneyevery global ceasefire day. Itwas a dream - at oncebothbeautifully step ofthe way. "A11I had, after all, was a crazy idea and afilm ple and implausibly idealistic - that in the future, for one camera," says Gilley. everyyear, the whole world would stop fighting. He travelled to Somalia and Burundito witness at firsthand Inthe way of most Damascene conversions, Gilley decided the devastating effectwars have on civilian communities and devote everywakinghour to makinghis dream come true. individual lives. He met orphaned children, mutilated the enormity ofthe task that faced him - atleast 5O0 teenagers and shattered families. He was told horrifi.ingstories le are killed every daythrough armed conflict; 250 major of starvingbabies sucklingontheir dead mothers. Suddenlyhe O F have beenwaged since 1945; scarcelyhas there been a day felt that his mission mattered more than he had ever imagined, O -L the past200 years when some kind of mortal battle has not that "creating the day was at least a beginning and surely z - urred - he formed an organisation ca1led Peace One Day. somethinghopeful". So he lobbied diplomats, politicians and @leex TNQUTRE F Those who arc involved in conflict long for even a day of peace. This is an idea whose time ffhas come maftahw6,Gilbyin world leaders, and through the sheer force ofhis enthusiasm neatly cropped, business-suited professional campaigner, he Right, lram top, et and commitmen! engineered meetingswith such NobelPeace received the backing ofthe UN Secretary-General. And in New UB lrith lhc Ealal amd with l{obel laureates as Shimon Peres and the Dalai Lama. Yorkon 7 September200l,justfour daysbefore the events of Prize wirner Oscar Despite his slenderbuild and boyish appearance, Gilley 9/11, a new resolution, co-sponsored bythe UK and Costa Sanckez found thatthe skills he had developed as an actor helped him Ricangovernments, was adopted in the UN GeneralAssembly to stay composed during nerwe-racking appointments and so establishing2l September as an annual day of"global ceasefire better present his case. Growingup in Southampton, he had and non-violence". piayed Bugsy Malone on the West End stage at the age of 13, Itwas a momentthat, as with all his encounters, he laterbecame amemberofthe RSC, and made alivingthrough recorded on his camer4 as he looked down, dewy-eyed, from small parls in such TV series asEastEnders and The Bill. a tiny television gantry in the roof of the assemblybuilding. "It Gilleyhad no particular religious or philosophical was thebestdayof mylife - nothingcomes c1ose," he says. convictions, but he was aware thatthere were certain historical "I remember looking down atthe General Assembly and precedents: the ancient Greeks'O\,rnpic Truce; the famous thinkingof allthe people I had met arrd howitwas all coming First World War football match bet\,veen British and German together in this moment. There were all these world leaders soldiers on Christmas Day 1914; and the tradition ofobserving debating- and abouttovote on - somethingthatwas just a "peace weeks" in war zones in some parts ofAfrica. In a little idea I hadjustthreeyears before and that a lot ofpeople meeting with Dr Robert Mu1ler, a former assistant to the UN had helped make happen. Itwas absolutelyunreal." Secretary-General, hewas told that "anynewideais first considered ridiculous, thenviolently opposed, and fua11y IF GILLEY'S STORY BEGINS TO SOUND SOMETHING LIKE A accepted as common sense". So he pressed on. MODERN FABLE AT THIS POINT, aparable of one man's struggle Convinced that educationwas a crucial part ofhis campaign, against the darker forces of theworld, a heroic, Michael he visited schools inthe UK and Ireland. He met representatives Moore-style experiment in how much one man, armed with fromthe U\ UNICEE, the Red Cross and manyother little more than the power of self-belief ald persuasion, can organisations involved in humanitarian aid and relief. Mary bring about political change, then this is onlythe beginning. Robinson, then the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, 'You have proved that individuals can make a difference arrd reassured him that her experience ofconflict "is that those ifeach ofus does ourbitcollectivelywewill make amajor who are involved in it longfor even a day ofpeace. To have a contributiorl"KofiAnnantold him. The attack on NewYork dayof cessationofviolence - thatto me is an ideawhose time had, after all, superseded any significant obserwance ofthe day has come." He travelledbackto Afric4 and to the Middle East, thatyear. So Gilley decided to push on further. to meet peace negotiators and activists. At each meetinghe He resolved to raise awareness of the day and to make its gathered more and more support. obserwance as meaningful as possible. Many of the people he Havingdiscovered thag almost 20 years earlieq the UN had had met had explained that not onlycould a cessation of d created a day ofpeace but not fixed a date in the calendar, he hostilities act as a startingpoint for dialogue, but that it could L petitioned high commissioners and under-secretaries to unifir also have many practical benefits, including allowing access + the day and create one specific day, 21 September, as the official for humanitarian aid such as food and immunisation, and UN-backed International Day of Peace. Eventually, during a providingvital information arrd freedom of movement. f meeting with Kofi Annan, before which Gilley dramatically He started back on his speakingtours of community O changed his appearance from ponytailed hippy traveller to organisations and schools around the world (duringthe past xe,#- @ | il It's not the leaderc of the world who will make Peace One Day a rcality, but the people on ff-the ercund years he has addressed 26,000 young people ard attended On the nighg in front of 4,500 people, there were messages The ns-fl{Sht *!$hr Ahsv*, than 2,000 meetings) attemptingto promote the dav as and appearances fromBadlyDrawn Boli DamonAlbarn, Moby, ffiav* S**wart xnd Jimmy 6l!6{ recer** *!r* F*ace Sme ofnon-violence, notjustbetween armed factions but also Co1dplay, Ttrrin Brakes, Annie Lennox and Jonny Mi11er. Lee Smy *mmg and perform xt n commur-rities, schools ald homes. "In order to break the Live sets were performed by such acts as Faithless,ZeroT, t** es**ere et Br;xt0rn .&eademy" l*ft, fr*m top, ofviolence and give a moment of hope you have to u.ork Starsailor ar-rd Neneh Cherry. The eveningwas broadcast live &nnie Lemm*x; &lax[ Jaxz the level of me, myselfl" Gi11eytel1s me. "There is something onthewebbyMsN. fi'e$fi F*a{}:lessi iqeii** encouragingpeople to step into the equation, about them In 98 countries around the world, supported by the UN and ehe*y at &nlxton &sad*m!y, $slsw, F€kirls ing empowered by this day, that can provide a lead to other organisations and governments, there were countless de*6gm,t*d It's notthe leaders oftheworldwho will make 1oca1 events markingthe day. There were ceremonies, vigils, foy $*c!Ea Mcfrari**y day areality, but the people on the ground." rallies. talks, discussions, seminars, parades, summits, films, Believing too, that it's essential to campaign for Peace One p1ars. documentaries, exhibitions, sponsored wa1ks, conferences beyond the western rvorld, Gi1ley secured arneetingin and cor-erage in the media. The Peace One Daywebsite received iro with Amre Moussa, Secretary-General of the League of 800,000 hits in September 2002 alone. Gilley estimates that as States. His diplomatic and negotiation skills were by now manl- as 24,1 million people were aware of the day. carefully honed. As a child of parents who divorced when Although no ceasefires were negotiated, there were 33 was three, he recognises that early on he developed skills as separate UN initiatir-es designed to instigate breakthroughs in a mediator and a keeper of the peace", -vet during his first hostilities or to strengthen existingpeace dea1s. In one area of he was sometimes too evar-rgelical, impatient and Nigeria, an entire communiq, declared peace and reconciliatior-r hily earnest. Now he is much more assured, articulate and after a decade ofviolence between different factions. ng. Moussa told him: "I wish to state categoricallythat support the Peace One Day programme - this is a step FOR ALt THIS, THERE IS A CASE TO BE MADE AGAINST GILLEY'S in international rel ations." UNQUESTIONABLY HONOURABLE AND ADMIRABLE WORK. HiS Back athome, Gilleybegan to plan a celebratory concert for idea malrbe simple; emotional reactions to it often are not. For September at London's Brixton Academy. His growingteam one thing the campaign can be seen as hopelessly idealistic - volunteers - nowhoused in offices nearthe City donatedby brokingfirmExecution approachedmusicianswilling supporl Peace One Day. He was stil1 devoting all his time to project, sacrilicingmoney, a permanent home and the A' ility ofa relationship to his cause. "..'". A growingnetwork of the great and the good came into E ffect. Dave Stewart and reggae legend Jimmy Cliffpenned a lb One Day songthatwas sent to radio stations around the r#* to be played on the day.
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