International Day of Living Together in Peace marked at UN with bell-ringing ceremony and calls to act on AI, faith freedom and community resilience

United Nations — More than a hundred speakers and hundreds of attendees gathered at an event organized by the Council for Justice, Equality, and Peace and partnering groups at United Nations headquarters on May 16 to mark the International Day of Living Together in Peace. The program concluded with a ceremonial bell ringing intended to symbolize global conscience and a call to practical action.

The conference mixed religious and civic leaders, private-sector speakers and organizers in a multi-hour program that included short addresses on religious tolerance, women’s leadership, climate action, veteran perspectives on peace and warnings about the need for regulation of advanced artificial intelligence. Organizers said hundreds of bell-ringers from dozens of countries participated in the closing ceremony.

Organizers and purpose Organizers identified the Council for Justice, Equality, and Peace and affiliated groups — including the Federation of World Peace and Love and invited partners described in the program as Time for Truth/Time for 2 Foundation and COJEP International — as hosts of the event. The gathering opened with remarks asking attendees to treat the day as both a ceremony and a platform for “results, not rhetoric,” and the program repeatedly framed peace as requiring personal responsibility as well as institutional change.

Why it mattered Speakers used the platform to press for concrete follow-up across multiple domains: tighter oversight of rapidly advancing AI…