International Day of Peace: On International Day of Peace, the United Nations urges nations to watch the day by adhering to “24 hours of non-violence”.

World Peace Day is watched each year on September 21. A United Nations-assigned day, it was first settled in 1981. On International Day of Peace, the world body urges nations to watch the day by clinging to “24 hours of non-violence”.

In 2001, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted to call for “non-violence and cease-fire” on world peace day. India has a tremendous tradition of adding to world peace. “There is no path to peace, peace is the path”, said Mahatma Gandhi.

Theme and significance

“Shaping Peace Together” is the topic for world peace day this year. The United Nations urges individuals to “celebrate the day by spreading compassion, kindness and hope in the face of the (COVID-19) pandemic.”

The pandemic has risen as a shared adversary of the present reality. “COVID-19 has reminded us that we are all interconnected and need to work together to overcome global challenges.”

Various nations and societies have their own symbols of peace yet a couple are utilized usually over the world like the dove and olive leaf. Amazing Spanish artist Pablo Picasso’s ‘Dove of Peace’, was first picked as the seal for the First International Peace Conference in Paris in 1949.

As per pablopicasso.org, “it was a traditional, realistic picture of a pigeon which had been given to him by his great friend and rival, the French artist Henri Matisse. Picasso later developed this image into a simple, graphic line drawing that is one of the world’s most recognizable symbols of peace”.

In Greek folklore, dove was utilized as an image of affection and the restoration of life. It is said that the early Christians likewise utilized a dove to depict baptism. In the Bible, legend says, Noah sent a dove when the flood waters retreated.

The bird returned with an olive leaf, to show that the Biblical flood was finished and that life had gotten back to Earth. Numerous Western nations additionally utilize olive branch as an symbol of peace. The Greeks accepted that an olive branch meant abundance and drove evil away.