One Day – One Goal – Peace One DAY!
SEPTEMBER 21st: A global calling for just one day of peace from putting down our weapons to playing a game of football with our neighbors….that is the vision that Jeremy Giley had over 10 years ago and today, the calling has reached Presidents and Prime Ministers all over the world. In the words of the Dalai Lama:
The story has been documented right from its inception and today tens of thousands of people worldwide are taking action in the name of Peace One Day – and yes, that includes us at Camps International and the hundreds of people that we have built relationships with from Borneo to Tanzania to Kenya:
We kicked off in Tanzania with a host of school based activities and marched across the town carrying banners of Peace!
Click HERE for more photos from Camp Tanzania’s Peace One Day.
And part of Jeremy’s vision was to make sure everything is documented. We came across this great short video that shows how sport is so integral and such an important way of bringing us humans together:
For us, at Camps International we wanted to take this vision and push aside all this talk of Human-Wildlife Conflict and start thinking about it all as Human-Wildlife Cooperation:
As human populations continue to grow exponentially, an increasing number of people are moving away from towns and encroaching on traditional wildlife habitat, forcing animals into ever smaller and fragmented areas where people and animals are increasingly coming into conflict over living space and resources such as food. The impacts of this are often huge. People lose their crops, livestock, property and sometimes their lives. The animals, many of which are already endangered, are often killed in retaliation or to ‘prevent’ future conflicts.
The primary focus for this day will be to bring communities and wildlife that are essentially at conflict together to leave aside the conflict and celebrate a shared environment. The sustainability of this approach will be explored through our long term commitment to reducing human-wildlife conflict and equally important to explore the possibilities of a global paradigm shift from ‘Human-Wildlife Conflict’ to ‘Human-Wildlife Cooperation’ This might be ambitious to push for a change in approach through language and implementation but has a range of positive possibilities that could follow.
The media are well aware of what we are up to. To read one of the latest stories online, click HERE. We are on a roll in Kenya and have just begun with the kick-off in Tanzania and Borneo. Our gappers have been in Tsavo since the official Peace One Day but have been wroking for over a week with local school kids from Sasenyi with a host of activities with the aim of bringing together the possibilities of more cooperation and benefits between wildlife and humans that co-exist together in places like Tsavo.
We know it’s a dream but everyone has to have one and yes, Peace One Day is part of our dream!
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