Jai Jagat 2020

Peace and Justice Campaign

India to Geneva March

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 Jai Jagat 2020
Peace and Justice Campaign
The Jai Jagat2020 is a peace and justice campaign made up of a several events in different countries over the next four
years. It culminateswith a global marchtaken up by 150 young people in 2019 from India to Switzerland, with the final
entry into Geneva in September/October 2020. Thecampaign demonstrates the use of nonviolent social action as a way
to overturn the current economic globalization;and it aims to bring ethics and justice into the policies of international
institutions like the WTO, World Bank, IMF, the Human Rights Commission and other UN agencies.

The violence being perpetuated on the earth is framed as climate change, which has made important policy strides in the
past one year. Jai Jagat is about marching from war to peace. There needs to be a fresh look at theaccelerated
appropriation of resources around the world that has led toeconomic inequality and widespread community/regional
conflicts, and which is being used to create even larger level conflicts.Larger conflicts oftentimes can be frozen, and not
easily discernible untilthey sporadically erupt. These conflicts have to be mediated, because behind them, there are power
hierarchies that are using violence for economic and political domination.

The global market economy benefits very few individuals, and there is a growing discontent among those that are
disadvantaged. This feedsinto narrow nationalism and obscurantism and the scapegoats are often refugees and
outsiders. Jai Jagat uplifts people away from fear to having them take positive action.The march builds cooperation
and moves across borders listening to peoples issues and promoting their well-being. The Jai Jagat is a training of
youth fornew generation leadership so they can envisage peace and a world without borders.

Jai Jagat is about moving from violence to nonviolence in our human interactions. Be the change you want to see
in the world, do not wait for others. If you are not indifferent, the world will be different.The Jai Jagat campaign aims to
expand ethics, deepen justice and to promote a society based on nonviolence. Ultimately peace is the only way for all
people to prosper in one world. Jai Jagat is about about preserving our common humanity.

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2016: Building an international network of women peacebuilders that carry out nonviolent conflict
resolution. This was a year of celebrating women and nonviolence. In October 2016 there was a program for
women peace leaders drawn from the global, national and local levels to interact with one another and develop
strategies for women peacebuilders.

2017: Bihar Padyatra: Using Nonviolence in Bihar to gain a pro-poor land reform for landless labourers and
small farmers through a padyatra in March 2017.

2018: Nonviolent Economy: To bring together innovative economic practices that produce goods nonviolently
and that minimize exploitation of people either in production or consumption. And that regenerates the
environment. This is planned for September 2018.

2019 - 2020: A 12-month caravan from Gandhis tombstone at Rajghat in New Delhi to Geneva, Switzerland in
Europe arriving in Geneva on UN day for Peace (21st of September).

2020: Geneva Action: The marchers from India along with others to assemble in Geneva for a two week action
beginning on September 21st and going until October 2nd, 2020.

Some of the websites to contact for further information are:

http://www.jaijagat2020.org/ ; http://www.iginp.com/ ; www.ektaeurope.org ; www.ektaparishad.com