International Peace Day causes ripples around the world.

Peace One Day looks to engage all sectors of society, including governments, organizations under the UN, and individuals through a worldwide ceasefire in an attempt to create a united and sustainable world.

The creator, Jeremy Gilley set out to create a film about peace, when he realized there was no fixed date in our calendar for an international day without violence or war. This became his mission and the focus of his truly amazing and inspiring film: The Day After Peace.

The film follows Jeremy's 10 year struggle to create and promote Peace Day. First, he hopes to develop a fixed international Peace Day. In 2001, the member states of the United Nations (UN) unanimously adopted September 21st as the official Peace Day. However, Jeremy's battles is far from complete. He needs corporate sponsorship to continue filming, and he quickly learns that so many other things are happening in the world (the official UN announcement of Peace Day occurs in New York, on the morning of September 11, 2001 and is of course overshadowed) that it will be difficult to get Peace Day the coverage it needs to spread the word.

But he gets support from all the right kind of people; a press conference with Angelina Jolie, a concert with Annie Lennox, and a trip to Afghanistan with Jude Law, get the press and the interest Jeremy needs. The trip to Afghanistan is the most inspiring, when in 2006, Jude Law and Jeremy receive ceasefire agreements from the Afghan government, NATO, and the Taliban. These agreements allowed the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and the Ministry of Public Health to enter areas of the country that were otherwise inaccessible and to provide 1.4 million children with polio vaccinations.

By 2007, Star Syringe, manufacturers of a non-reusable, auto-disabling syringe, provided safe immunization camps in 20 locations where thousands of children in countries such as India, Ethiopia, Indonesia, and Uganda were vaccinated against measles, diphtheria, tuberculosis, hepatitis, and whopping cough.

This year, the war in Afghanistan saw a complete ceasefire, enforced by a written statement from President Hamid Karzai, announcing "I hope this day becomes the beginning of enduring peace in our country and the world." (link to statement) Oxfam organized kite flying, music concerts, sport events and public hearings in Kabul and remote parts of Afghanistan, and Habitat for Humanity began huge building efforts in India and South Africa. Peace Day even brought feuding brothers together when the makers of Adidas and Puma buried a 61 year old grudge by playing soccer in their home town in support of Peace Day's One Day One Goal football match campaign.

The film is definitely worth a watch: it makes you think, it makes you cry, it makes you WANT to action. To view his film click here or find out how you can take action!