As I only have a few minutes, I haven't tried to make a formal speech I've tried to put down some points,

which I feel are important on this day of peace.

I think it's more important than ever in the world we live in today that we

We have a vision of what it would be like

to live in a peaceful world the kind of world we all want

And then to see what we as individuals can do to try and bring that about

and

peace starts within

We have some how to find peace within ourselves

So that we can then reach out to others and spread this message of peace

So how do you find peace within yourself when you live in a really difficult

situation?

When perhaps your refugee?

I think the only way I can think of doing

This is each day to try to do your best to make the world around you just a little bit better

And if you can go to sleep each night thinking, well I really did do my best maybe in a very difficult situation

Then that will give you the kind of feeling that leads to peace and then you're better able to help others you

This little video showed a young woman from Syria

saving people

She said she arrived in Germany and found a new life. Our roots and shoots program in Germany went into those areas

where the refugees were first housed when they arrived and helped them, particularly the children.

We've worked with refugees and Tanzania refugees from troubled Burundi and from Congo

Started our roots and shoots program there made a huge difference

so that people came and said

Why does it look better here? Why are the things growing?

Why are the children playing and smiling when in other parts of the camp it's grim?

and they're told well this roots and shoots here and

since you mentioned it roots and shoots began in Tanzania with 12 high school students your kind of age and

It was young people who wanted to make the world around them better and didn't know how to do it

So the main message of roots and shoots

And this is very important for Peace Day is that each and every one of us

matters and has a role to play in this world even though

We don't yet perhaps know what that role is.

And even more important each and every one of us makes some impact on the planet every single day that we live and

We're in a position of fortunate position of being able to choose what sort of impact we make

What do we buy? What do we wear? What do we eat? How will those little choices affect future generations and

One thing which needs to be said on this Day of Peace and that is there is

War we know about the wars and the conflicts around the world

There's a new threat of nuclear war with crazy people whose fingers buttons that could annihilate

mankind

There's terrorism which is a new completely new I woke up this morning on this peace day

To hear that in London, and I come from London. There was a bomb on the underground killing people

What a way to begin the day of peace

But we'll never have true peace

Yes, we need to respect each other. Yes, we need to learn more and more about each other's nations

cultures customs

We need to learn more about the different religions because religion is causing so much strife

We need to realize that every single major religion has the Golden Rule do to others as you would have them do to you

It's the fanatics who are changing the religions into something which is causing conflict

so

While we need and must respect each other, while it's important for everyone to live lives of dignity

this can never come about

until we also stop the war that we are waging as a species on the natural world on the

Environment that actually supports us that gives us water and clean air. We're destroying it and

One of the outcomes of that is climate change

There's no time to go into all of this, but I think you know what I'm talking about species other species

we're supposed to share the planet and

Yet species are disappearing

Ecosystems are collapsing. That's going to affect us

But now we realize and we're realizing more and more that other animals also have

Emotions and feelings they feel pain they feel fear and what are we doing to them? They too are

refugees and losing their homes they too are homeless. They too are dying and suffering

So on this peace day when we dream and think about peace

We should also commit ourselves to doing everything in our power to bring about peace

It's no good thinking of the big wide world and the big wide Wars

But think about our own communities our own lives the people surrounding us nature surrounding us

What can we do to make that a more peaceful place?

And then knowing that this is everywhere and our roots and shoots program is now in 100 countries

with members from preschool through University and

We're trying to grow a critical mass of young people and we are using whoever made that question about

social media because social media can bring people together

Around an issue and then we can go out and take action when we know more about it

so

Roots and roots and shoots

Growing a critical mass of young people share

the same philosophy of respect for other human beings

respect the nature

respect for other amazing animals and

What is so important is hope if we don't have hope we give up we do nothing

And in this world of violence and fear

We must have hoped for a better future and that's something each one of us can work for and it's you young people

Who give me the most hope when you

understand the problems on are empowered to take action what you are doing around the world is

unbelievable my greatest reason for hope along with the human brain the resilience of nature and the indomitable human spirit

That we see in refugees in homeless people overcoming seemingly insurmountable

problems and

showing we're part of an extraordinary species

And we will only achieve our true human potential when head and heart work in harmony