PeaceJam
A Billion Simple Acts of Peace

The Story of the Global Call To Action

Includes bonus DVD with music by The White Stripes, The Arctic Monkeys and more.

How did the Global Call to Action get started? Who are the Nobel Laureates who have issued the call? How have they begun working with young people around the world to create a historic youth movement?

This new book, by PeaceJam co-founders Ivan Suvanjieff and Dawn Engle, tells the amazing story of a worldwide youth movement that aims to create one billion acts of peace, and it shows you how you can become part of it.

It starts with a chance conversation with some young people on the streets of Denver, who are heading down the path towards gang violence. It shows how that conversation led to a wild idea – putting Nobel Peace laureates at the head of a movement of young people to change the world. And it shows how that dream has become a reality with the Global Call to Action.

PeaceJam: A Billion Simple Acts of Peace will tell you how Nobel laureates like The Dalai Lama, the Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Oscar Arias Sanchez and Aung San Suu Kyi are working with young people to tackle the core issues facing our world today. It details the efforts of amazing, passionate young people as they work under the guidance of the laureates.

In these pages, you will meet:

• Myomena, a young woman from South Africa who helps build a movement for equal rights for women alongside laureate Shirin Ebadi.

• Fito, from Buenos Aires, who is inspired by Adolfo Perez Esquivel to help rebuild his neighborhood.

• Libby, a teenager in England who works to promote understanding and human rights with advice from Mairead Corrigan Maguire.

• Fernando, who joins Rigoberta Menchu Tum in a campaign to fight racism in Guatemala.

These stories and others will do more than inspire you – they will show you how you, too can join this growing movement and begin to make real change. This is the official guide to the Global Call to Action and features historical and environmental background, questions and answers, personal stories and photos detailing the ways in which PeaceJam volunteers are tackling the issues facing us today.

And inside every copy you will find a 30-minute DVD with lots of exciting footage of the Nobel laureates and young GCA activists working together. The soundtrack to the video features music by The White Stripes, The Arctic Monkeys, the Flobots, The Go and more.

PEACEJAM: A BILLION SIMPLE ACTS OF PEACE
Puffin Books
ISBN: 9780142412374

$16.99 (CAN $ 18.50)

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