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Peace Day is Here - World Peace Flame is Perpetual


Dear Peacebuilding Community,


The International Day of Peace (Peace Day) is September 21st!
Pathways To Peace joins Peacebuilders around the world in actions that support Peace today and every day! Thank you for your efforts to build a
Culture of Peace for all!



The United Nations General Assembly declared the International Day of Peace (Peace Day) as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.
The 2018 Peace Day Theme is: "The Right to Peace - The
Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70"
 
"It is time all nations and all people live up to the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which recognizes the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human race. This year marks the 70th anniversary of that landmark document." -- Secretary-General António Guterres

"Peace is both an innate state of being and a dynamic, transformative, and evolutionary process." This is how Pathways To Peace (PTP) defines Peace. That means, that while we may have little or no control over the external forces that surround us in our complex world, we can in the midst of chaos and adversity, choose Peace. There is no doubt that there are challenges to our Peacebuilding efforts today, as we witness local and global injustice, violence, and oppression. Yet, we know the countless stories of people throughout history that, when experiencing extreme hardship, injustice, violence, and abuse, they chose to respond with compassion, forgiveness, hope, and love. And, we know that you might be living this story today. On this Peace Day, we wish to recognize you, stand and walk with you, and we bow in honor to you. Thank you for choosing Peace!
 
On this Peace Day and every day, Pathways To Peace wishes you Peace!



World Peace Flame Monument!

The entire lighting ceremony can be seen live streamed at this URL - https://youtu.be/CjKzBPzCXrg

The long awaited World Peace Flame Lighting Ceremony is here in Ashland, Oregon. The entire lighting ceremony can be seen live streamed at this URL - https://youtu.be/CjKzBPzCXrg 

The Southern Oregon University Digital Media Center YouTube channel will be open by 11:40 am PDT. To learn more about the World Peace Flame story please click here.




How To Take an Effective Stand for Peace 
in a Volatile World

A free webinar for Peacebuilders sponsored by The Business Plan for Peace, Heart Ambassadors, Fyera Foundation, and Pathways To Peace.

You are invited to join Sheva Carr, and 3x Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Scilla Elworthy in this free 90-minute webinar, Friday, September 21st at 11 am PT. 


















This online workshop is the perfect marriage of a practical, real-world business plan for peace with the latest scientific breakthroughs for generating peace inside our physiology. If you've wondered if peace is really possible in our lifetime, you won't want to miss this! Here's a sampling of what will be covered in the webinar:
  • An overview of the plan
  • Why the time is now
  • How YOU can play an important role
  • Debunking peace myths
  • The drivers of war
  • Three foundations for preventing war
  • Taking a stand effectively
  • How to access peace on demand
  • Modernized peace-making methods
As a Pathways To Peace partner (yes, that's you!), you can register for this free webinar by clicking here: https://pathwaystopeace.krtra.com/r/a/BLbqSGalT1le At the end of the webinar you will learn about the one-year online course, based in Scilla Elworthy's book, The Business Plan for Peace.


The International Day of Peace (Peace Day) is a perfect time to launch your business plan for Peace! Jump right into that global Peace wave, as Peace Day is a day when countries create cease fires, children receive needed vaccines they cannot get in the midst of violence, and people all over the world focus on peace and its possibilities for our planet. We join you in your commitment to creating a Culture of Peace for all!

Pathways To Peace Welcomes the
Twin Cities Culture of Peace Initiative (TCCPI)


A small, humble, yet powerful group of Peace leaders came together on February 5th, 2018 to begin to dream together about creating Peace through justice. In a common commitment to "authentic justice" for all, each of these initial members has spent a lifetime in action to achieve it and to create a Culture of Peace in their neighborhoods and communities. Since that initial meeting, the members have shared their thoughts, visions, and the realities of Peacebuilding in their work. 

The "Twin Cities" include both St. Paul and Minneapolis, in the US State of Minnesota. With a population of 3.6 million people, there are many opportunities for Peace to flourish and these urban communities have lots of Peacebuilders, Peacebuilding activities, and Peacebuilding organizations. The TCCPI is currently committed to supporting and promoting Peacebuilding activities across the Twin Cities. 

TCCPI members provided input into the development of the pre-conference workshops at the Noble Peace Prize Forum and are serving as leaders and presenters. 2018 marks the 30th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize Forum which is hosted and presented by Augsburg University on September 13th - 15th. The theme this year is The Paradox of Peace, with plenaries, keynotes, and breakout sessions related to tensions between conflict and reconciliation, justice and forgiveness, and hope and fear. Participants will engage in the work of two laureates: President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia and Beatrice Fihn, Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN). 

To learn more about the Forum, click here :  Full Program Overview Pathways To Peace will be following the TCCPI as it takes steps to activate a Culture of Peace in the Twin Cities, so stay tuned!

 
Peacebuilding Around Our World: Your Pathways To Peace!

 

 
Quote of the Day
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. 
                                                                           Henry David Thoreau


The International Day of Peace (Peace Day) is September 21 st !
Pathways To Peace joins Peacebuilders around the world in actions that support
Peace today and every day! Thank you for your efforts to build a

Culture of Peace for all!


What is Your Pathway To Peace?
 
We'd love to hear about it! Pathways To Peace honors, celebrates, and supports  Peacebuilders around the world. You can contact us by emailing: 
[email protected] . No more than a paragraph please (and a few sentences is even better)! We will continue to share some of the submitted pathways in our upcoming Peace Day newsletters.

About Pathways To Peace and the Culture of Peace Initiative
 
Incorporated in 1983, Pathways to Peace (PTP) is an international organization dedicated to making Peace a practical reality in our world today. PTP is an official Peace Messenger of the United Nations and has Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. PTP works locally and globally, inter-generationally and multi-culturally, to promote Peacebuilding, Peace education, and to collaborate with other organizations in initiatives that help further the Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI). 

With participants from around the world, the Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI) is a cooperative local-global Peacebuilding Initiative uniting the strengths of organizations, networks, projects and people to realize a Culture of Peace for the Common Good. The CPI also serves as a vehicle for bringing to light many previously unseen and unheard Peacebuilders working along diverse paths, who are embodying the emerging Culture of Peace within Humanity.  The annual highlight of the Culture of Peace Initiative is the International Day of Peace, which provides an opportunity for individuals, organizations, and nations to work together, on a shared date, to create practical acts of Peace with a year-round impact.
 
For more information about Pathways to Peace, please visit our website:  www.pathwaystopeace.org 

About the International Day of Peace
 
An annual focus for PTP is the International Day of Peace (Peace Day), held annually on September 21st. Pathways To Peace has worked with the UN to observe and promote the International Day of Peace since its inception in 1981 and has grown International Day of Peace from a single event of a few hundred people into an annual global observance that now reaches hundreds of millions of people. The International Day of Peace ("Peace Day") is observed around the world each year on 21 September. Established in 1981 by unanimous United Nations resolution, Peace Day provides a globally shared date for all humanity to commit to Peace above all differences and to contribute to building a Culture of Peace.

The Theme for the International Day of Peace, September 21, 2018
"The Right to Peace"

This year's #peaceday celebrates the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "The Right to Peace- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70."
 



This newsletter comes to you from Pathways To Peace (PTP),  steward of the Culture of Peace Initiative (CPI) newsletter. PTP is a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, whose work would not be possible without our volunteers and your support. If you would like to support Pathways To Peace and Peace Day activities around the globe, you can do so by clicking the Donation Button above. A heartfelt thank you from the Pathways To Peace Team! 

Thank You!


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