14 September - In 1999 the United Nations declared that this would be International Peace Day as part of the Decade for the Culture of Peace. In May 2000 the Trades Council held a rally to promote the UN's message. 1 December - International Prisoners for Peace Day. Use the opportunity to send greetings cards to conscientious objectors to military service who have been sent to prison for their principles. In peace children bury their parents.
War violates the order of nature and causes parents to bury their children.
That war is an evil is something that we all know, and it would be pointless to go on cataloguing all the disadvantages involved in it. No one is forced into war by ignorance, nor, if he thinks he will gain from it, is he kept out of it by fear. The fact is that one side thinks that the profits to be won outweigh the risks to be incurred, and the other side is ready to face danger rather than accept an immediate loss. Henry IV, William Shakespeare, 1564-1616. Mr Chadband, Charles Dickens, 1812-1870.