Tickets on sale - Jude Law and Jeremy Gilley Launch Countdown to Global Truce With Concert at the O2 Arena London 21 September 2011

Tickets on sale - Jude Law and Jeremy Gilley Launch Countdown to Global Truce With Concert at the O2 Arena London 21 September 2011

LONDON, June 24, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

Tickets are now on sale for the Peace One Day O2 Arena [http://www.theo2.co.uk ]
show that will feature artists Eliza Doolittle, Youssou NDour, Afroreggae,
Flawless and English National Ballet, with further artists to be announced.
Speakers will include Jude law and Peace One Day founder and filmmaker
Jeremy Gilley.

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The O2 Arena concert is the biggest event yet for Gilley's Peace One Day
campaign, which in 2001 led a process that resulted in the unanimous
adoption by UN member states of the first ever annual day of global
ceasefire and non-violence.

This day is now fixed in the global calendar every year: 21 September is
Peace Day. As well as being the biggest Peace One Day event to date, the
concert on 21 September 2011 will launch a year-long countdown to a Global
Truce on Peace Day 2012.

Jeremy Gilley said: "Peace One Day is calling for and working towards a
Global Truce on Peace Day 2012. We have a clear strategy and we hope this
will be the largest reduction in global violence in recorded history, both
domestically and internationally. This day is as much about non-violence in
our schools, our homes, workplace and local communities as it is about
ceasefire on the international stage.

"Everyone has a role to play. The O2 Arena show launches a 365-day
countdown. I'm so grateful to all the artists for giving their time to help
Peace One Day take this message to the people of the world."

Eliza Doolittle said, "When I heard about Peace One Day, what they have
achieved & what they are now going for, a Global Truce on Peace Day 2012, I
had to become involved. You can too. Come to the O2 Arena on 21 September
this year and go to http://www.peaceoneday.org to find out more. POD is a
ground breaking initiative and I'm proud to be a part of it."

The O2 Arena show, which will be filmed in HD and broadcast
internationally, is the first in a trilogy of Peace One Day concerts
produced as part of the London 2012 Festival.

The second show - in Derry-Londonderry on 21 June 2012 - is the opening
event of the London 2012 Festival and marks the three-month countdown to the
Global Truce. The third show will take place on the day of Global Truce
itself, Peace Day 21 September 2012. Information about all consecutive shows
including ticket sales and line-up will be available from the Peace One Day
website http://www.peaceoneday.org.

Since the adoption of the Peace Day resolution in 2001, activities on 21
September have enabled families to be reunited, mosquito nets and food aid
to be delivered and children to be vaccinated all over the world, as this
ceasefire and non-violence day creates a window of opportunity for
humanitarian efforts.

In 2007, Jeremy Gilley and Jude Law travelled to Afghanistan to
spearhead an initiative that has resulted in the vaccination against polio
of 4.5 million children following Peace Day agreements by all parties in the
region in 2007/8/9. This work forms the culmination of Gilley's feature
documentary The Day After Peace.

"I've seen how Peace Day saves lives," says Law. "Peace One Day is
inviting all sectors of society to observe a Global Truce on Peace Day 21
September 2012. It's up to all of us to get involved."

Jeremy Gilley's next feature documentary (produced by Gilley and Law)
will culminate in the Global Truce on Peace Day 2012, against the backdrop
of London 2012 activities.

Others who have supported Peace One Day include Annie Lennox, Kofi
Annan, Ban Ki-moon, Angelina Jolie, Lenny Kravitz, Kasabian, Bryan Adams,
Peter Gabriel, Yusuf (formerly Cat Stevens), Patti Smith, Charlie Winston,
Youssou NDour, Jonny Lee Miller, Joseph Fiennes, Kate Nash, Corinne Bailey
Rae, Dave Stewart, Jimmy Cliff, Faithless, James Morrison, -M-, Yodelice,
Vanessa Paradis, Ayo, and millions of people across the world. The Peace One
Day 2011 O2 Arena show is a Peace One Day Production in as part of the
London 2012 Festival.

Peace One Day presents
The Peace One Day Celebration 2011 "Global Truce" as part of the London 2012
Festival

Tickets are now on sale.

To book tickets call 0844-856-0202 or 0871-231-0835
Or purchase online at http://www.theo2.co.uk or
http://www.seetickets.com

About Peace One Day
Jeremy Gilley is an actor turned filmmaker, who in the late 1990s became
preoccupied with questions about the fundamental nature of humanity and the
issue of peace. He decided to explore these through the medium of film, and
specifically, to create a documentary following his campaign to establish an
annual day of ceasefire and non-violence. In 1999, Jeremy founded Peace One
Day, a non-profit organisation, and in 2001 Peace One Day's efforts were
rewarded when the member states of the United Nations unanimously adopted
the first ever day of global ceasefire and non-violence on 21 September
annually - Peace Day.

With the day in place, Peace One Day is working to institutionalise
Peace Day, making it a day that is self-sustaining, an annual day of global
unity, a day of intercultural cooperation on a scale that humanity has never
known. Peace Day has already been proven as a window for life-saving
activities; in 2007, Gilley and POD ambassador Jude travelled to Afghanistan
to spearhead an initiative that has resulted in the vaccination against
polio of 4.5 million children following Peace Day agreements by all parties
in the region in 2007/8/9. This work forms the culmination of Gilley's
feature documentary The Day After Peace.

By 2007, over 100 million people (source UN) were active on Peace Day,
in 192 countries. For Peace Day 2012, POD is calling for and working towards
a day of global ceasefire and non-violence - a Global Truce, for which POD
is engaged in an extensive, diplomatic and grassroots communications
exercise; POD hopes that this will be the largest reduction in global
violence in recorded history, both domestically and internationally. To find
out how you can help, visit http://www.peaceoneday.org

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