Global Family Day One Day of Peace and Sharing, is celebrated every 1^st

January January is the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and is also the first of seven months to have a length of 31 days. The first day of the month is known as New Year's Day. It is, on average, the coldest month of the ...

in the

United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., ...

as a global day of

peace Peace is a concept of societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. In a social sense, peace is commonly used to mean a lack of conflict (such as war) and freedom from fear of violence between individuals or groups. ...

and sharing. Global Family Day grew out of the

United Nations The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmoni ...

Millennium celebration, "One Day In Peace".

History

Originally supported in the United States by Linda Grover, the efforts to promote the date included a 1996 children's book ''One Day In Peace, 2000'' by Steve Diamond and also Robert Alan Silverstein, which was translated into 22 languages, and a utopian novel ''Tree Island'' by Grover herself.

References

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