How to participate:

These are just a few suggestions to get you started!

• Ask your group or organization to focus awareness on the cessation of violent conflict throughout the world and to promote peaceful behavior for the entire 24-hour period on September 21. The group may wish to observe the vigil by designating different individuals at different times to pray, meditate or otherwise celebrate the day in that group's house of worship or other suitable place.
  
  
• Invite other faith traditions to join you in a prayer service for international peace.
  
  
• Suggest to local school districts that lesson plans focus on conflict prevention and resolution or on women and men who devoted their lives to peace.
  
  
• Ask your municipality to formally declare their observance of the day and to sign a peace proclamation available here.
  
  
• Invite groups to find/create/imagine symbols of peace. These could be collected, explained and/or shared at a peace event.
  
  
• Invite your town hall, school or house of worship to ring their bells for peace at noon on September 21.
  
  
• Work with other faiths in your community to have a "Peace Pilgrimage" traveling throughout your community stopping at various houses of worship to pray for peace in the tradition of that particular faith. Or the pilgrimage could stop to pray at places in need of peace and nonviolence within your community
  
  
• If you have a Peace Pole – use this as a gathering space for part/all of your vigil. Or you may chose to plant a Peace Pole on this day within a prayer service for peace.


Email us your ideas to add to the list!