Don't shoot! Not next Sunday anyway. For that will be UN International Day of Peace. Each year, 21 September is being promoted as a day of global ceasefire and non-violence.
One aim of the day is to give aid workers a safe interlude where they can try to provide vital services. It is also a chance to offer mediators a building block towards a wider truce, says UN secretary-general Kofi Annan. He hopes it can "allow all those engaged in conflict to reconsider the wisdom of further violence."
What do young people think? Is this just more wishy-washy stuff to go on about in school assemblies? Or is it an important way for the majority of people who want peace to declare their views to their governments and others?
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