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INTERNATIONAL
DAY OF PEACE
The Sustainable Development Goals:
Building Blocks for Peace.
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Eachyear,InternationalDayofPeaceisobservedaroundthe
worldon21stSeptember.TheGeneralAssemblyhasdeclaredthis
asadaydevotedtostrengtheningtheidealsofpeace,bothwithin
andamongallnationsandpeoples.In1945,theUnitedNations
wasformedbasedupontheworldwidedesireforpeace.Thiscame
afterthemostdestructivewarinthehistoryofmankind,theWorld
WarII.Sinceitsinception,PeaceDayhasmarkedpersonaland
planetaryprogresstowardpeace.Overtheyears,ithasflourished
includingmillionsofpeopleacrosstheworld,commemoratingand
celeberatingthedaybyorganizingmanyeventstopromotepeace.

HIGHLIGHTS

The International Day

of Peace was first
established in 1981 by
a resolution 36/67 of
the United Nations
General Assembly to
coincide with its
opening session every
September.

Mother Tersa
recieved the Nobel
Peace Prize in year
1979, "For work
undertaken in the
struggle to overcome
poverty and distress,
which constitutes a
threat to peace."

Kailash Satyarthi
received the
Nobel Peace
Prize in year
2014, For his
pioneering work
on promoting
child rights in the
subcontinent.

INSPIRING QUOTES
"God of peace, bring your peace to our
violent world: peace in the hearts of all men
and women and peace among the nations of
the Earth."
- Pope Benedict XVI
"We like to put sacred texts in flowing waters,
so I rolled it up, tied it to a piece of wood,
placed a dandelion on top, and floated it in the
stream which flows into the Swat River. Surely
God would find it there."
- Malala Yousafzai

"The people of the world have asked us to

shine a light on a future of promise and
opportunity. Member States have
responded with the 2030 Agenda for

"Peace demands the most heroic labor and

the most difficult sacrifice. It demands
greater heroism than war. It demands greater
fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect
purity of conscience."
- Thomas Merton

Sustainable Development. It is an agenda

for people, to end poverty in all its forms.
An agenda for the planet, our common
home. An agenda for shared prosperity,
peace and partnership."
- UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon