Play for Peace Global Unity Ways to Play

A Guide for the Play for Peace​® Community ​

Participating in the Global Unity Week. Tomorrow Together!

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Introduction…………………....……………………..……….…………………....p.3 Support Program: Incentives...……………………..…………………………....p.3 Ways to Play Introduction...............................................................................p.4 Sections: ❖ #1 Activities ­ for Unity Games (WPDC) Eat, Walk, Play, Love.....................p.5 ➢ Eat……………………………...……………………………………….….p.5 ■ Food Sharing: Pass the tiffin……………………………………....…...p.5 ■ Exchange a recipe……………………………………………………....p.5 ■ Pick an International dish……………………………………………….p.5 ■ Match the food…………………………………………………………...p.6 ➢ Play……………………………………………………………….………..p.7 ■ Moonballathon…………………………………………………………...p.7 ● Instructions ● Resources you need ● Last step ■ Guess Who………………………………………………….…………....p.7 ■ Walk for Peace……………………………………………..……………..p8 ➢ Love…………………………………..…………………...…..…..…...….p.8 ■ Peace Arts & Crafts…………………………………..…………..p.8 ● Peace Tattoo……………………………..……………....p.8 ● Peace Jewelry………………….……….……………….p.8 ● Peace Flag…………………….………………………...p.9 ❖ #2 Agents of Compassion............................................................................p.9 Reporting your Global Unity Games……………………………….................p.10 About Play for Peace Organization..............................................................p.11 History of International Peace Day..............................................................p.12 Answer key to Match the Food………………………………………………...p.13

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The ​Global Unity Games: ​Tomorrow Together ​is an​ ​11 day challenge​ ​to bring

about​ ​unprecedented unity in communities around the world through compassionate action and service​. ​The Global Unity Games begin on 9/11, a National Day of Service, and continue through 9/21, the International Day of Peace.

This period of time is known as the 11 Days of Global Unity​. ​The Global Unity Games honor a legacy of compassion by bringing people around the world together to strive toward a better tomorrow through collective acts of service and kindness.

Play for Peace​ is a global learning community that trains and supports young leaders around the world who inspire compassion in action and friendships across divides of culture, religion and beliefs. Cooperative play and community service are our tools to teach kids, teenagers and adults that the "enemy" is someone not so different from themselves and to learn that when we work (and play!) together, peace is possible.

Support program: Incentives Play for Peace has developed a series of programs to support you as our Global Learning Community members, and Compassion Games is one of the support programs. For Compassion Games participants who are doing such an outstanding work in their communities, we ​would like to support you with $100.00 to help cover the costs of your activities during the Unity Games Week.

Who Qualifies: ●Any registered Play for Peace GLC member (club/mentor/trainer) who participates daily in the Unity Games Week! event. ●Any registered Play for Peace GLC member that report their activities regularly.

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Ways to Play:

EAT - PLAY - LOVE! Playing Together Changes the World!

The Compassion Games are a powerful social tool designed to ignite, amplify, and catalyze compassionate action in communities around the world. By infusing the power of playfulness and compassion with the fun of friendly competition. The Games offer a unique way to strive together to serve: each other, our own personal well-being, and the Earth.

The Ways to Play are grouped into two dimensions: ​Activities for UNITY and AGENT of COMPASSION missions​!​ However, the activities in this packet are just suggestions! You can make up your own activities to play during the Unity Games. In fact, w ​ e can’t wait to hear about your original ideas! ​These are the list of Play for Peace activities suggestions that follows our core values of ​cooperative, inclusive, caring and fun.

Let the Games Begin!

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Section #1 ACTIVITIES ­ FOR UNITY ➢ EAT Food Sharing: ★ Pass The Tiffin The participants bring their lunch boxes to the event and play “Pass the Tiffin Game.” If tiffins/lunch boxes are not possible, mentors can also find a donor or a corporate group who could donate snacks/food on the event. ➢ One of the ways you can become a more compassionate person is learning more about the people around you, the different cultures and practices that make up your community. ➢ When your group meets over a meal­time, have everyone bring their “lunch box” or “tiffin” if you are in India! Sit in a circle and play musical chair with your tiffin. ➢ Start the music and pass around the tiffins in the circle.When the music stops, take a bite from the Tiffin that reached you and starts the music again. ➢ Play the game, until you finish all the food in the tiffins.When the game ends, share your new food experience in a group.

★ Exchange a recipe Pick one of your favorite recipes and share that recipe with a person/group from a different country. In exchange, you can ask them to share their favorite dish recipe with you. If you can find ingredients for the recipe, prepare the dish and share it with the given person/group via photo and video. If you can’t find the ingredients around, please share the recipe with us and we will share a photo of the dish with you.

★ Pick an International dish Connect with a person from a different country or culture and find out about a famous festival food. Learn about what they eat and serve during that festival and the history of the festival. Please share the festival photos along with festival food with us.

★ Match the food The matching activity is an individual activity followed by group discussion. Print the food activity below. Each participant will receive the printed activity and a pencil. Ask them to match the 5

countries with their foods. The group is not allowed to talk to their peers during the activity. Once the activity is finished, check the right answers on the last page of this booklet and discuss the followings:

Why did you pick the selected dish to match with a particular country?

Why do you think they eat different food than you do?

What similarities and differences we have between the countries?

How do we respect other’s eating preferences?

Guatemala

Bobotie

Philippines

Tandoori Chicken and Paneer Masala

Pakistan

Pizza, Burger and Fries

Canada

Chiles en nogada

Vietnam

Mohinga

El Salvador

Nanaimo bar, Poutine and Butter Tart

Senegal

Adobo

USA

Ful medames

Nepal

Tamales, Pepian, Tortillas

Indonesia

Pad Thai, Tom Yum Goong

Myanmar

Dal Bhat Tarkari

India

Papusa

South Sudan

Chapli Kebab and Kulcha

Mexico

Thieboudienne

Thailand

​Tumpeng

South Africa

Pho

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PLAY ★ Moonballathon

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The dream that started Play for Peace was a red ball bouncing around the world bringing compassion, laughter and peace to the areas in conflict. In World Peace Day Celebration we want to make this dream a reality! We need you to play Moonballathon with your community in your area/school.

Moonball Instructions: Have the group keep the ball from hitting the ground while counting the number of hits (facilitator can count). Once it has hit the ground, start over and set a goal to surpass the last number. ○ • Everyone must touch the Moon Ball at least once. ○ • No one can touch it two times in a row. ○ • The Moon Ball must not be caught, must move constantly

Resources you need: ● ● ●

1 Facilitator to lead the moon ball 1 Red beach ball 5­10 youth, children or community members

★ Guess Who This game can be played with people of all age groups. Guess Who involves explaining a world peace leader (pick a leader from the list below) through acting. A person is not allowed to talk and is required to act out the name by using different gestures, facial expressions, and body language.

(The World Peace Leader: Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon, Wangari Maathai, Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Shirin Ebadi, Malala Youfsafzai, etc.)

1. Form 2 teams, each with at least two members 2. Split the world peace leaders into two papers and give them to each team 3. Team A decides the peace leader (from the list given to them) and calls one member from the other team, say Team B, and tell him/her secretly the name of the leader 4. Decide the time which will be allocated to the person to enact & group to find out the assigned leader. Sixty seconds is good enough.

5. The identified member from Team B has to act the peace leader via her body language without any lip movement to the remaining members of her team.

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6. Others in his team have to guess the name of the leader by following the gestures 7. It is advisable to have a facilitator who can ensure that all the rules of the game are being followed and can keep a track of time 8. If the team B miss out the guess, both the teams hit their palm to their forehead and say aiyoo..and the identified person will join them back.

9. Then next team will get the chance to perform

★ Walk for Peace Organize a local walk with significant personal meaning for you and your team. Be creative and let it hold meaning for you in your community, here are some great examples from 2015’s World Peace Day Celebrations to help inspire you.

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In Guatemala, multiple Play for Peace Clubs around the country walked in their cities on Sept. 19 to their central parks and created artwork, and celebrated the event with games and food.

In Mumbai, India, the Play for Peace Club sponsored by Khula Aasman and a team of local doctors hosted an event on Sept. 21 for approximately 200 youth and children from the slums of Mumbai.

Play for Peace Clubs from Hyderabad, India, hosted celebrations on Sept. 21 with orphaned children in Secunderabad. They also invited children from two other orphanages to join their celebration. The event included crafts, games, food, and a Walk for Peace.

Five Clubs in Delhi, India, hosted a celebration on Sept. 21 with children, youth and adults from marginalized communities. They walked to local historical places such as India Gate and visited orphanages, homes for the elderly, and prisons to conduct Practice Peace Sessions.

The Play for Peace Club hosted by Starfish Pakistan held a World Peace Day Celebration in Youhanabad, Lahore Pakistan, with two schools, a school system, a home for orphan girls and a home for children with special needs. They held a peace walk on the main street of Youhanabad.

➢ LOVE Peace Arts and Crafts: ★ Peace Tattoo​ – ​Participants "tattoo" themselves with a peaceful message or symbol, e.g., see the excellent photo of Play for Peace logo tattooed on kid's hand.

★ Peace Jewelry​ ­ ​Participants can create a piece of peace jewelry using the recycled material in the event of World Peace Day Celebration.

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★ Peace Flag​ – ​Participants will use paints and colors to make Peace flag and make it part of

your venue decorations. Using your ideas, symbols, drawings, words about Peace or Eat, Play, Love creates a "flag" that is 8x11 or smaller in size would perfectly work. Be Creative​!

Peace Tattoo

Peace Jewelry

Peace Flag

Section #2 AGENT of COMPASSION MISSIONS

“It has been discovered that a powerful antidote exists that can counteract the hate, hurt, and negativity that plagues our global community. This highly potent antidote is called “compassion,” and it exists within you.”

During each day of the Unity Games Week, all players will receive Agent of Compassion Missions​ that offers tangible ideas and inspiration for ways to play.

Agents of Compassion continue to be a simple and meaningful way to bring compassion to life for oneself, others, and the Earth! They are a great supplement to service projects as well.

WAYS TO PLAY as an Agent of Compassion ❖ Receive your daily missions via email every day throughout the games. ➢ Make sure Play for Peace has your current and correct email address ➢ Wait to receive your daily email throughout the games for great ideas on how to play.

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➢ Mission received, mission accepted? If this mission inspires you and/or your team to act, than please stop reading and go have some fun! ➢ Mission accomplished? Please take a few more moments to reflect and share by reporting​ in on your mission.

Reporting on the Unity Games!

First and foremost, ​PLAY​! Be generous, compassionate and have fun! Once you have completed an activity, it is time to share it with others! Relay the details of your activities to your local blog writer to report or click ​here​ to fill­out a short report. In sharing the stories of your activities you help inspire others with your Acts of Compassion.

We are here to support you!​ ​If you need any further assistance during the games submitting your reports, please contact your local blog writer for assistance or let me know! Email me directly at amanda@playforpeace.org.

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@ Play for Peace Overview Play for Peace (PFP), a non­profit INGO based in Chicago. Play for Peace is a community of people who are, right now, creating a world that fosters coexistence.Children, youth and adults from communities in conflict, are deciding to choose compassion and practice coexistence, and they are learning to do this through the joy of play. Through cooperative play, we have a universal and non­threatening platform around which people can come together and learn. Play creates a gateway to moments when differences dissolve, fear melts away, and we see what connects us rather than what divides us.

Mission To bring together children, youth and organizations from communities in conflict, using cooperative play to create laughter, compassion and peace.

Goals Play for Peace Program ​changes young lives, educates children and transforms communities, specifically​: ● Creating safe environments in which people of all ages can experience the joy of play. ● Promoting positive relationships among people of societies in conflict. ● Fostering leaders for peace around the world. ● Building self­sustaining learning communities in which all of our region's work interdependently to build a more peaceful world.

Play for Peace Method LAUGHTER ⇛ COMPASSION ⇛ PEACE

Join Play for Peace Individuals and Communities join us through our Global Learning Community ​receiving training, educational resources and cultural exchange opportunities​ that promote lifelong learning and development for adult mentors, youth leaders and compassionate children. Find out more about how to join Play for Peace ​here​.

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History of International Peace Day On November 30, 1981, the United Nations General Assembly resolved to dedicate the third Tuesday of September every year as the International Day of Peace. “As set forth in the preamble of the Charter of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defense of peace must be constructed, that a peace based exclusively upon the political and economic arrangements of Governments would not be a peace which could secure the unanimous, lasting and sincere support of the peoples of the world and that the peace must therefore be founded, if it is not to fail, upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind.

“Considering that, through the declaration and proper celebration of an international peace year and an international day of peace, it would be possible to contribute to strengthening such ideals of peace and to alleviating the tensions and causes of conflict, both within and among nations and peoples.” (UN/A/RES/36/67) www.un.org/documents/ga/res/36/a36r067.htm On September 7, 2001, the General Assembly amended the original resolution declaring that the International Day of Peace shall be observed on September 21st each year calling for the International Day of Peace to be observed as a day​ ​of global ceasefire. ​(UN/A/RES/55/282)ww.internationaldayofpeace.org/res-55-282.pdf The International Day of Peace “is meant to be a day of global cease-fire, when all​ ​countries and all people stop all hostilities for the entire day. And it is a day on​ ​which people around the world observe a minute of silence at 12 noon local time.”

-- Kofi Annan -United Nations Secretary-General 21 September 2005

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Answers: Match the Food

Guatemala

Tamales, Pepian, Tortillas

Philippines

Adobo

Pakistan

Chapli Kebab and Kulcha

Canada

Nanaimo bar, Poutine and Butter Tart

Vietnam

Pho

El Salvador

Papusa

Senegal

Thieboudienne

USA

Pizza, Hot dogs, Burger and Fries

Nepal

Dal Bhat Tarkari

Indonesia

​Tumpeng

Myanmar

Mohinga

India

Tandoori Chicken and Paneer Masala

South Sudan

Ful medames

Mexico

Chiles en nogada

Thailand

Pad Thai, Tom Yum Goong

South Africa

Bobotie

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