The Fundación Paz y Cooperación is celebrating the School Day for Nonviolence and Peace this afternoon at 4pm with a debate on the Zoom platform moderated by Mercedes Trujillo, Doctor in Law and Corresponding Academician of the Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation, Spain.
Speakers at the event included Professor Miguel Pérez, Director of the AH CPEE Hospital del Niño Jesús in Madrid; María Fernández, specialist in Education and Patron of Paz y Cooperación; Tania Ramírez, Executive Director of the Red por los Derechos de la Infancia de México, and Carlos Uriarte, Professor of Law at the URJC and Patron of Paz y Cooperación.
Since 1964, the School Day of Peace and Nonviolence (DENYP) has been commemorated every 30 January. This particular date was chosen because it was the date on which Mahatma Gandhi, India’s nationalist and spiritual leader and the world’s foremost figure of peaceful resistance, was killed.
In 1998, the UN proclaimed the International Decade for a Culture of Peace (2001-2010). At that time, the School Day for Peace and Nonviolence had already been in practice in schools around the world for 36 years. There is a hymn for this day, called Brothers of the Stars, with lyrics by Llorenç Vidal and music by Andreu Bennàssar. There is a Catalan-Balearic version, one in Basque, one in Interlingua (Brazil) and one in Galician-Portuguese.
