Peace Zone Ireland

About me:

Peace Zone Ireland is a fledgling non-profit organisation based in Ireland now seeking to grow in numbers and strength.

Its mission is to create expanding space for Peace to happen in war zones out of the collaborative work of ordinary people working in disciplined volunteer civilian peacekeeping units.

In 2001, the Member States of the United Nations unanimously adopted the first-ever annual day of global ceasefire and non-violence - PEACE DAY - for September 21st. Although the day is being celebrated by hundreds of thousands of people across the globe, cease-fires are not always being observed in conflict-driven areas.




Peace Zone is a pro-active Peace movement whose mission is to develop new structures which will enable civilians to engage constructively in the advancement of concrete steps towards the ending of conflict, particularly civil war and local terrorism. We are especially focused on advancing the UN call for the achievement of one day of Peace worldwide each year.

We will seek ways of engaging local leaders and belligerents in war zones to stop conflicts JUST FOR ONE DAY and recognize the benefits of Peace, safety and the right of individuals and communities to enjoy life without the fear of conflict or reprisal.

Our core objective is to build a trained, disciplined and modern international civilian peace-keeping volunteer group – a group which will commit to continued learning in modern civilian peace keeping systems and practices, a group which will maintain itself in readiness for deployment in 'peace zone' formation in aid of NGOs on the ground, with consent of all parties of conflict, through temporary truce mechanisms.

We will also promote Peace, and Peace Empowerment, by jointly organising, with local communities and NGOs, small-scale Peace gatherings, with the sharing of Music and Art as a common theme, to encourage local peace-making and peace-keeping activities, activists and organisations.

We are committed to creating safe 'peace zones' for people to develop Peace mechanisms regardless of religion, politics, nationality or status – our job is to develop non-judgeable and stable disciplined and safe civilian peace-keeping structures. In so doing we hope others will follow and civilians will find new ways of getting involved in concrete actions which will contain the spread of war and pioneer new ways of achieving solutions to local conflict.


In short, a tight-knit relationship with humanitarian organisations will be built up to provide humanitarian relief to the people in conflict zones through the creation, when possible, of temporary Peace zones. We will work almost at village level to win a TRUCE, mind it and even foster music events to raise hope while rehabilitation and relief work gets done.

We believe, from experience, that the more people in conflict zones feel the beauty of Peace, the more they will seek it.