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On United Nations International Peace Day, individuals, communities, and nations come together to highlight efforts to end conflict and promote peace. This year, children from around the world gathered at the UN to discuss the future of the would they will inherit. Here are some of their thoughts on peace.
Child 1: Peace means tranquility, balance, and minimal problems in the world that’s what it means to me.
Child 2: To me it means that the world, for the world to unite to make sure that there is no problems between us.
Child 3: Peace to me is the togetherness of all people. Peace is being able to recognize that we are all one race. We are all human. We all need to share this earth.
Child 4: We are 99.9 percent identical so you know why are we hating our neighbors and all that stuff? When we could all be cool with each other.
Child 5: Accept everyone no matter their race, size, and whatever they are as friends not enemies.
Child 6: Peace means to me being peaceful and calm, like not warring and agreeing.
Chelsea: What are you going to do in your life to make peace?
Child 6: Well I was actually just in the Disarm Now For a Better World, and I was going to start a chain email where people could sign and we could possibly send it to a leader of our country.
Child 7: I kind of made a commitment to myself that I will always give to charity, like part of my salary or profit or something that I have. I’ll give part of it to charity, maybe some of it to UNICEF to companies, to organizations that need it.
Child 8: I think peace is everyone coming together as one, just working together to solve all the problems of the world.
Chelsea: And what are you going to do in your life to make peace?
Child 8: Well I want to become a lawyer, and helping people with their problems.
Child 9: Well I plan to be a filmmaker. So I plan to make films that dictates the vision of peace, my vision of peace.
Child 10: I think peace means everybody working together in harmony. There is no discrimination, there is no anything, it’s just people treat each other equally so that everything would be the same. No war. No bombs, no nuclear anything.
Child 11: Well there is not really one meaning for peace, but peace in the world means equality for everybody in my eyes, and respect for people around you and your friends and your family.
Child 12: Peace means to me that everyone comes together and unites.
Child 13: It means to get along and make friends. No wars, nor fights, sticking together.
Chelsea: And what are you going to do in your life to make peace?
Child 14: Now I already started to rap about violence that I see in an everyday basis. So I’m just going to tell everyone how important it is to be peaceful with each other.
Chelsea: Do you want to do a little rap?
Child 14: Okay.
A lot of love I have for my family and peace,
I’m from my mom’s stomach I run down the streets,
From East to South,
South to West,
It’s just the side you live on where all the best,
You never hear quiet all you hear is bang bang,
And thugs running down the street doing their thing,
Saying help me help me my man got shot,
All the sirens around, but my block is still hot.
Chelsea: What does peace mean to you?
Child 15: Um, it means harmony with a lot of people, and people working together.
Produced by Chelsea Moore
Duration 3 min 20 sec
