{"id":53088,"date":"2015-02-02T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=53088"},"modified":"2015-05-05T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T20:26:08","slug":"school-day-of-nonviolence-and-peace-30-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/02\/school-day-of-nonviolence-and-peace-30-january\/","title":{"rendered":"School Day of Nonviolence and Peace \u2013 30 January"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_53089\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Logo_denip-schoool-day-nonviolence-peace.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53089\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53089\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Logo_denip-schoool-day-nonviolence-peace.jpg\" alt=\"Logo DENIP-School Day of Nonviolence and Peace by painter Eulogio D\u00edaz del Corral\" width=\"230\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Logo DENIP-School Day of Nonviolence and Peace by painter Eulogio D\u00edaz del Corral.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <em>School Day of Nonviolence and Peace<\/em> (or <em>DENIP<\/em>, acronym from Catalan-Balearic: <em>Dia Escolar de la No-viol\u00e8ncia i la Pau<\/em>), is an observance created by the Spanish poet <em>Lloren\u00e7 Vidal Vidal<\/em> in Majorca in 1964 as a starting point and support for a pacifying and nonviolent education on a permanent basis.<\/p>\n<p>Different as the first proposed by the UNESCO &#8220;Armistice Day&#8221; in 1948, the &#8220;School Day of Nonviolence and Peace&#8221; is observed on January 30 every year, on the anniversary of the assassination of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mahatma_Gandhi\" >Mahatma Gandhi<\/a>, in schools all over the world. In countries with a Southern Hemisphere school calendar, it can be observed on 30 March. Its basic and permanent message is:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Universal Love, Nonviolence and Peace &#8211; Universal love is better than egoism, nonviolence is better than violence, and peace is better than war.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DENIP and the World Association of Early Childhood Educators collaborate to celebrate this event in schools worldwide. Former Director-General of UNESCO, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, has been promoting for decades the School Day of Nonviolence and Peace, saying: &#8220;<em>We cannot achieve a sustainable development without a culture of peace.<\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>______________________________<\/p>\n<p><em>Adapted from <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/School_Day_of_Non-violence_and_Peace\" >Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its basic and permanent message is: &#8220;Universal Love, Nonviolence and Peace &#8211; Universal love is better than egoism, nonviolence is better than violence, and peace is better than war.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonviolence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}