Stories from around the globe show how a united world is already in motion. This platform highlights experiences, initiatives, and projects from people and communities working for unity and peace. Explore what’s happening and get inspired.
<p><em>From 2002, in the whole world, the twenty first of September has become an entire day of activities and prayers for the promotion and commitment towards this ideal.</em></p> <p style="font-size: 13px;"><strong>This year, 2013, the International Day of Peace is on a Saturday, September 21st</strong>, and special activities and celebrations will take place all across the world over the 2013 Peace Day Weekend, including festivals, concerts, a global Peace Wave with moments of silence at noon in every time zone, and much more.The International Day of Peace, a.k.a. "Peace Day" provides an opportunity for individuals, organizations and nations to create practical acts of peace on a shared date.</p>
<p><em>The experience of Gaffar from Afghanistan, as he and his family take refuge in Holland. He did not refuse someone who asked him for what he had.</em></p> <p><strong>Gaffar from Afghanistan</strong> had to seek asylum in Holland for him and his family. Life in the refugee camp was not easy with one room for the whole family. The children had to play outdoors when they were bored and disturbing to others.</p> <p><strong>Every day Gaffar attempted</strong> to invent something new that would keep them busy in a positive way.
<p><em>Our appeal for peace on our website goes to war stricken Syria and all the other countries undergoing forgotten conflicts. This is a space for dialogue, for sharing our thoughts and for taking actions that promote peace</em></p> <p><strong>Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan and Congo</strong> are just a few of the war stricken countries that fill up the news headlines. However, there are many other countries undergoing war, of which, we hardly ever hear about and yet they are equally cruel in terms of broken lives, widespread hate and misery that adds upon misery.</p>
<p><em>The clashes of the last days in Israel and other conflicts in the world. On the site of the UWP, our appeal for reconciliation, is a wall: <em style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a space for dialogue, for sharing our thoughts and for taking actions that promote peace.</em></em><em> </em></p> <p><strong>Salt counts of victims in Israel. </strong>But we will not forget this or any other conflicts around the world through a call to reconciliation, this is the "Wall for Peace": open space to converse and share thoughts and actions on peace on the website of the UWP.<strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><em>Some young peolple tell us about a special dinner campaign in Philippines. How sponsorize one (or more) family’s Noche Buena</em></p> <p><strong>“Christmas is a special season for the Filipinos,</strong> with celebrations lasting for several months. One of the traditions looked forward to is the Christmas dinner feast, called the Noche Buena. Unfortunately, not all families can afford this kind of luxury due to the widespread poverty in the country.
<p><em>50 years after his famous speech, some selected passages of Martin Luther King for "The Protagonists of the fraternity"</em></p> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>250 thousand people attended the 28 of August 1963</strong> for the "March for work and freedom" at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington. There, Martin Luther King pronounced his famous speech "I Have a Dream" which still preserves its universal message of freedom and fraternity. <br />For "Protagosnists of fraternity" we selected some passages of this historical speech.
<p><em>At the conclusion of a workshop/meeting, 650 educators from around the world commit to an ‘educational pact.’ Their mission of teaching pathways to peace continues in hundreds of initiatives and projects already underway. During the live streaming: a new presentation for the United World Project</em></p> <p><strong>Education, the privileged pathway for seeking peace.</strong> This was the idea that brought together: families, schools, group animators, educational researchers and also some young and even very young people from many cultural backgrounds who are working daily to face the educational challenges of our times. They met at Castelgandolfo, Italy (September 6, 2013 – September 8, 2013) for a workshop entitled <a href="http://www.new-humanity.org/it/learning-fraternity.html" target="_blank">Learning Fraternity</a>.</p>
<p><em>How would you translate in practical terms: ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you’?This is what the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Y4UW.JO?fref=ts" target="_blank">Youth for a United World (Y4UW) - Jordan</a> share on their Facebook page.</em></p> <p>Over 60 thousand persons have signed <a href="http://unitedworldproject.org/en/signatures/sign-up-online.html" target="_blank">their committed to live the Golden Rule</a> and endorse the United World Project: young people, adults and even personalities. There are, in fact, so many ways to put it into practice in our everyday situations or challenges as it entails going “beyond” our way of life and acquire a new lifestyle in which one puts the other person at the centre of attention.
Health, Sport & Ecology
United World Week
Discover Run4Unity 2026, a global race bringing thousands of young people together in the name of peace. From Italy to Uganda, Brazil to Hong Kong, the relay of solidarity and sport forms just one part of United World Week 2026.
Dialogue & Interculture
United World Week
Here’s the key: knowing that we do not know. No one possesses the absolute Truth, and by engaging in dialogue with everyone we can grasp aspects or fragments of truth that help us reassemble a shattered vase that we can restore only if we are “together”.
Economy & Work
Anna Granata, professor at the University of Milano-Bicocca, reminds us that teaching peace is not an abstract utopia. It is something that happens every day in Italian classrooms among children with diverse stories, languages, and backgrounds.
Art & Social Commitment
Celebrated Marvel and DC artist Gabriele Dell’Otto invites us to consider the people who are working to build peace as the real superheroes of our world. A profound discussion on responsibility, citizenship, and the challenge of doing the extraordinary in our everyday lives.
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