World Hello Day : a gesture for peace
Last week, in the loudness around Black Friday, happened World Hello Day, November 21st. Although apparently a simple proposal, with a day dedicated to greeting your neighbor or a stranger on the street, it has a huge symbolic impact and origin.
World Hello Day was first created in 1973 in order to show people, especially the people of the Middle East that conflicts can and should be resolved through communication, and not violence. The idea is that clear, honest communication breeds peace. In the 1970s, the conflict between Egypt and Israel was quite severe, and there was fear of another huge war coming of it.
World Hello Day was in fact created as a direct response to the Yom Kippur War that had just finished in October of 1973, during which thousands of both soldiers and innocent civilians were killed. Exactly 50 years later this history repeats itself.
Over the last 42 years since its creation, World Hello Day has been celebrated in 180 countries, expressing concerns for world peace.
More than thirty winners of the Nobel Peace Prize support World Hello Day’s substantial value as an instrument for preserving peace, and as an occasion that makes it possible for anyone in the world, individual, organization or government, to contribute to the process of creating peace.
Greeting as a gesture of peace goes along with walking for peace. In 1951 Vinoba Bhave undertook a peace walk with many of his followers throughout India. He walked for more than a decade, asking landowners to consider him a son and give him one-sixth of their land for him to distribute to the poor.
Many peace walks followed in the decades after, one of the most recent is the European Peace Walk, intending to bring people of all cultures together, in a way that fosters Peace and Intercultural understanding during a walk from Budapest to Trieste.
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