{"id":3914,"date":"2012-09-18T02:11:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T02:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/?p=3914"},"modified":"2024-04-22T14:39:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T18:39:04","slug":"international-day-of-peace-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2012\/09\/18\/international-day-of-peace-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"International Day of Peace this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/09\/peacedayphilly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3915\" title=\"peacedayphilly\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/09\/peacedayphilly-300x109.jpg\" alt=\"Peace Day Philly\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to draw everyone&#8217;s attention to the fact that this Friday, Sept. 21 is International Peace Day.<\/p>\n<p>Checkout <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peacedayphilly.org\/\">http:\/\/www.peacedayphilly.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The United Nations unanimously voted to establish the International Day of Peace (&#8220;Peace Day&#8221;) in 1981. Peace Day was given the fixed calendar date of September 21 by a second unanimous UN resolution in 2001. Peace Day is now estimated to be observed by over 100 million people annually. The 2012 Peace Day global theme is &#8220;Sustainable Peace for a Sustainable Future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In recognition of this important annual day of commitment, Richard Unsworth (grandfather of Hannah Gotwals \u201913) will be speaking on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the Scheuer Room on &#8220;Magda and Andre Trocme and Nonviolent Resistance&#8221; See <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/2012\/09\/17\/magda-and-andre-trocme-and-nonviolent-resistance\/\">https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/2012\/09\/17\/magda-and-andre-trocme-and-nonviolent-resistance\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just wanted to draw everyone&#8217;s attention to the fact that this Friday, Sept. 21 is International Peace Day. Checkout http:\/\/www.peacedayphilly.org\/ The United Nations unanimously voted to establish the International Day of Peace (&#8220;Peace Day&#8221;) in 1981. Peace Day was given the fixed calendar date of September 21 by a second unanimous UN resolution in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/2012\/09\/18\/international-day-of-peace-this-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">International Day of Peace this week<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[232,15,61,131,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9107,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3914\/revisions\/9107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/academics\/pcs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}