Peace Day 2016
SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
We encourage you to promote a Peace Month for the whole of March. Choose from the suggested activities below to promote the theme – “A peaceful resolution is the best solution..”
Reflect!
• Church service: Join with the church in your community for a service on the Sunday before Peace Day or on any Sunday during March.
• Gatherings: Invite parents, community residents to gather and reflect on the theme, sharing their ideas for how we could create a better Jamaica.
• Vigils: In your communities, have a vigil that honours those who have died as a result of violence.
• Honouring moments, e.g. moment of silence
Educate!
• Have a workshop for teachers that equips them with the knowledge and skills of violence prevention and conflict resolution.
• Put on a non-violence conference that promotes the theme. Have the students represent different countries or different worldwide organisations like the United Nations.
• Have an in-house panel discussions or invite special guests to be part of a panel.
• Invite speakers who will teach conflict resolution and non-violence.
• Plan a community gathering and have your students share their vision for a peaceful Jamaica with residents.
• Expressive arts activities: show films; have art exhibits that promote the theme; write peace poetry.
• Create peace rules for the school and for classrooms and post them where they are very visible.
• Have students write about how they can create a better Jamaica “peace by peace”.
• Have students write a peace pledge.
• Encourage peaceful behaviour by rewarding classes with a flag, which will be hung outside the classroom.
Celebrate!
• Musical and performing arts events - Create songs, dances, skits, puppet shows promoting peace.
• Have a peace walk in the community.
• Plant a peace pole. • Create a peace rock garden.
• Do outdoor clean-up.
• Have a fundraising activity to help a needy child or family.
We encourage you to promote a Peace Month for the whole of March. Choose from the suggested activities below to promote the theme – “A peaceful resolution is the best solution..”
Reflect!
• Church service: Join with the church in your community for a service on the Sunday before Peace Day or on any Sunday during March.
• Gatherings: Invite parents, community residents to gather and reflect on the theme, sharing their ideas for how we could create a better Jamaica.
• Vigils: In your communities, have a vigil that honours those who have died as a result of violence.
• Honouring moments, e.g. moment of silence
Educate!
• Have a workshop for teachers that equips them with the knowledge and skills of violence prevention and conflict resolution.
• Put on a non-violence conference that promotes the theme. Have the students represent different countries or different worldwide organisations like the United Nations.
• Have an in-house panel discussions or invite special guests to be part of a panel.
• Invite speakers who will teach conflict resolution and non-violence.
• Plan a community gathering and have your students share their vision for a peaceful Jamaica with residents.
• Expressive arts activities: show films; have art exhibits that promote the theme; write peace poetry.
• Create peace rules for the school and for classrooms and post them where they are very visible.
• Have students write about how they can create a better Jamaica “peace by peace”.
• Have students write a peace pledge.
• Encourage peaceful behaviour by rewarding classes with a flag, which will be hung outside the classroom.
Celebrate!
• Musical and performing arts events - Create songs, dances, skits, puppet shows promoting peace.
• Have a peace walk in the community.
• Plant a peace pole. • Create a peace rock garden.
• Do outdoor clean-up.
• Have a fundraising activity to help a needy child or family.
Theme Song:
Theme Song: “I’ve Got Peace Like a River”
Theme Song: “I’ve Got Peace Like a River”
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I’ve Got Peace Like a River
I've got peace like a river I've got peace like a river I've got peace like a river in my soul I've got peace like a river I've got peace like a river I've got peace like a river in my soul. I’ve got love like an ocean I’ve got love like an ocean I’ve got love like an ocean in my soul I’ve got love like an ocean I’ve got love like an ocean I’ve got love like an ocean in my soul. |
I’ve got joy like a fountain I’ve got joy like a fountain I’ve got joy like a fountain in my soul I’ve got joy like a fountain I’ve got joy like a fountain I’ve got joy like a fountain in my soul. I’ve got peace, love, and joy like a river I’ve got peace, love, and joy like a river I’ve got peace, love, and joy like a river in my soul I’ve got peace, love, and joy like a river I’ve got peace, love, and joy like a river I’ve got peace, love, and joy like a river in my soul. |
Prayer
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Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy. |
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen |
Scripture Reading: Romans 12: 14-21 (NIV)
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.[a] Do not be conceited.
17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. 18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”[b] says the Lord. 20 On the contrary:
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”[c]
21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
14 Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn. 16 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud, but be willing to associate with people of low position.[a] Do not be conceited.
17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. 18 If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. 19 Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,”[b] says the Lord. 20 On the contrary:
“If your enemy is hungry, feed him;
if he is thirsty, give him something to drink.
In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”[c]
21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.