Jeremy Gilley: One day of peace

Translator: Klavdija Cernilogar Reviewer: Matej Divjak

I was basically concerned about what was going on in the world.

Skrbelo me je, kaj se dogaja po svetu.

I couldn't understand

Nisem mogel razumeti

the starvation, the destruction,

lakote, uničenja,

the killing of innocent people.

ubijanja nedolžnih ljudi.

Making sense of those things

Zelo težko je tem stvarem

is a very difficult thing to do.

dati nek smisel.

And when I was 12, I became an actor.

Ko sem bil star 12 let, sem postal igralec.

I was bottom of the class. I haven't got any qualifications.

Bil sem najslabši v razredu. Nobenih kvalifikacij nimam.

I was told I was dyslexic.

Povedali so mi, da sem dislektik.

In fact, I have got qualifications.

Pravzaprav imam nekaj kvalifikacij.

I got a D in pottery, which was the one thing that I did get --

Dobil sem zadostno pri lončarstvu, to je vse,

which was useful, obviously.

in očitno je bilo koristno.

And so concern

Tako da vse tole

is where all of this comes from.

prihaja od zaskrbljenosti.

And then, being an actor, I was doing these different kinds of things,

Kot igralec sem počel različne stvari.

and I felt the content of the work that I was involved in

In čutil sem, da zadovoljstvo z delom

really wasn't cutting it, that there surely had to be more.

ni bilo dovolj, da je moralo obstajati nekaj več.

And at that point, I read a book by Frank Barnaby,

Takrat sem prebral knjigo Franka Barnabyja,

this wonderful nuclear physicist,

odličnega jedrskega fizika,

and he said that media had a responsibility,

ki je dejal, da imajo mediji odgovornost,

that all sectors of society had a responsibility

da ima vsak družbeni sektor odgovornost,

to try and progress things and move things forward.

da poskuša izboljšati stvari in napredovati.

And that fascinated me,

To me je prevzelo,

because I'd been messing around with a camera most of my life.

saj sem se večino svojega življenja igral s kamero.

And then I thought, well maybe I could do something.

Pomislil sem, da pa bi morda lahko nekaj naredil.

Maybe I could become a filmmaker.

Morda bi lahko postal filmar.

Maybe I can use the form of film constructively

Morda bi lahko film konstruktivno uporabil

to in some way make a difference.

in tako nekaj spremenil.

Maybe there's a little change I can get involved in.

Morda bi se lahko zavzel za majhno spremembo.

So I started thinking about peace,

Tako sem začel razmišljati o miru

and I was obviously, as I said to you,

in kot sem rekel, so se me te podobe

very much moved by these images,

zelo dotaknile,

trying to make sense of that.

hotel sem v njih najti smisel.

Could I go and speak to older and wiser people

Bi lahko govoril s starejšimi in modrejšimi ljudmi,

who would tell me how they made sense

ki bi mi povedali, kako si sami razlagajo

of the things that are going on?

stvari, ki se dogajajo?

Because it's obviously incredibly frightening.

Ker je vse skupaj seveda neverjetno strašno.

But I realized that,

Ampak ugotovil sem,

having been messing around with structure as an actor,

ker sem se kot igralec ukvarjal s strukturo,

that a series of sound bites in itself wasn't enough,

da serija kratkih izsekov sama po sebi ni dovolj,

that there needed to be a mountain to climb,

da mora obstajati gora, ki jo moram preplezati

there needed to be a journey that I had to take.

in potovanje, ki ga moram opraviti.

And if I took that journey,

In če bi odšel na to potovanje,

no matter whether it failed or succeeded, it would be completely irrelevant.

ne bi bilo pomembno, ali uspem ali ne.

The point was that I would have something

Bistveno je bilo, da dobim nekaj,

to hook the questions of -- is humankind fundamentally evil?

na kar bi naslonil vprašanje: je človeštvo v osnovi zlobno?

Is the destruction of the world inevitable? Should I have children?

Je uničenje sveta neizogibno? Naj imam otroke?

Is that a responsible thing to do? Etc., etc.

Je to odgovorno? In tako naprej.

So I was thinking about peace,

Tako sem razmišljal o miru

and then I was thinking, well where's the starting point for peace?

in se vprašal, kje se začne mir?

And that was when I had the idea.

Takrat sem dobil zamisel.

There was no starting point for peace.

Ni začetne točke miru.

There was no day of global unity.

Ni dneva globalne enotnosti.

There was no day of intercultural cooperation.

Ni dneva medkulturnega sodelovanja.

There was no day when humanity came together,

Ni dneva, ko bi se človeštvo združilo,

separate in all of those things

kljub različnosti v mnogih stvareh,

and just shared it together --

in skupaj delilo -

that we're in this together,

da smo v tem vsi skupaj

and that if we united and we interculturally cooperated,

in da če bi se združili in sodelovali med kulturami,

then that might be the key to humanity's survival.

potem bi to morda bil ključ za preživetje človeštva.

That might shift the level of consciousness

To bi morda spremenilo raven zavesti

around the fundamental issues that humanity faces --

o temeljnih vprašanjih človeštva,

if we did it just for a day.

če bi to storili samo za en dan.

So obviously we didn't have any money.

Seveda nismo imeli denarja.

I was living at my mom's place.

Živel sem pri mami.

And we started writing letters to everybody.

Vsem smo začeli pisati pisma.

You very quickly work out what is it that you've got to do

Človek hitro ugotovi, kaj je treba storiti,

to fathom that out.

da bi to dognal.

How do you create a day voted by every single head of state in the world

Kako ustvariti dan, ki ga bo vodja vsake države na svetu podprl,

to create the first ever Ceasefire Nonviolence Day,

da bi ustanovili prvi dan premirja in nenasilja

the 21st of September?

vsakega 21. septembra?

And I wanted it to be the 21st of September

Hotel sem, da bi bil 21. september,

because it was my granddad's favorite number.

ker je bila to najljubša številka mojega dedka.

He was a prisoner of war.

Bil je vojni ujetnik.

He saw the bomb go off at Nagasaki.

Videl je, kako je bomba zadela Nagasaki.

It poisoned his blood. He died when I was 11.

Zastrupila je njegovo kri. Umrl je, ko sem bil star enajst let.

So he was like my hero.

Bil je moj junak.

And the reason why 21 was the number is

In razlog za številko 21:

700 men left, 23 came back,

700 mož je odšlo, 23 se jih je vrnilo,

two died on the boat and 21 hit the ground.

dva sta umrla na ladji in 21 jih je stopilo na kopno.

And that's why we wanted it to be the 21st of September as the date of peace.

Zato sem kot datum hotel imeti 21. september.

So we began this journey,

Tako smo začeli popotovanje

and we launched it in 1999.

in ga sprožili leta 1999.

And we wrote to heads of state, their ambassadors,

Pisali smo vodjem držav, njihovim veleposlanikom,

Nobel Peace laureates, NGOs, faiths,

dobitnikom Nobelove nagrade, nevladnim organizacijam, verstvom,

various organizations -- literally wrote to everybody.

različnim organizacijam - dobesedno vsem smo pisali.

And very quickly, some letters started coming back.

In kmalu so začeli prihajati odgovori.

And we started to build this case.

Tako smo začeli graditi zgodbo.

And I remember the first letter.

Spomnim se prvega pisma.

One of the first letters was from the Dalai Lama.

Eno prvih pisem je prišlo od dalajlame.

And of course we didn't have the money; we were playing guitars

Seveda nismo imeli denarja; igrali smo kitare,

and getting the money for the stamps that we were sending out all of [this mail].

da smo plačali znamke za pošiljanje vse te pošte.

A letter came through from the Dalai Lama saying,

Dalajlama je pisal:

"This is an amazing thing. Come and see me.

"To je čudovita stvar. Pridite me obiskat.

I'd love to talk to you about the first ever day of peace."

Rad bi se z vami pogovoril o prvem dnevu miru."

And we didn't have money for the flight.

A nismo imeli denarja za let.

And I rang Sir Bob Ayling, who was CEO of BA at the time,

Poklical sem sira Boba Aylinga, ki je bil tedaj direktor British Airways,

and said, "Mate, we've got this invitation.

in rekel: "Kolega, imamo tole vabilo.

Could you give me a flight? Because we're going to go see him."

Bi mi lahko podaril let? Gremo ga namreč obiskat."

And of course, we went and saw him and it was amazing.

In seveda smo šli, se srečali z njim in bilo je neverjetno.

And then Dr. Oscar Arias came forward.

Potem se je oglasil dr. Oscar Arias.

And actually, let me go back to that slide,

In pravzaprav, naj se vrnem na tole sliko,

because when we launched it in 1999 --

kajti ko smo idejo leta 1999 sprožili,

this idea to create the first ever day of ceasefire and non-violence --

idejo o ustanovitvi prvega dne premirja in nenasilja,

we invited thousands of people.

smo povabili na tisoče ljudi.

Well not thousands -- hundreds of people, lots of people --

No, ne na tisoče, na stotine ljudi, ogromno ljudi

all the press, because we were going to try and create

vse medije, saj smo hoteli poskusiti ustvariti

the first ever World Peace Day, a peace day.

sploh prvi svetovni dan miru, dan miru.

And we invited everybody,

Povabili smo vse

and no press showed up.

in od medijev ni prišel nihče.

There were 114 people there -- they were mostly my friends and family.

Tam je bilo 114 ljudi - večinoma mojih prijateljev in sorodnikov.

And that was kind of like the launch of this thing.

In to je bila nekakšna otvoritev.

But it didn't matter because we were documenting, and that was the thing.

Ampak nič ne de, saj smo vse dokumentirali in to je bilo to.

For me, it was really about the process.

Z mojega vidika je v resnici šlo za proces.

It wasn't about the end result.

Ni šlo za končni rezultat.

And that's the beautiful thing about the camera.

In to je čudovita stran kamere.

They used to say the pen is mightier than the sword. I think the camera is.

Nekoč so rekli, da je pero močnejše od meča. Mislim, da je to kamera.

And just staying in the moment with it was a beautiful thing

Ostajanje v trenutku, ko je bila to čudovita stvar,

and really empowering actually.

je pravzaprav resnično dalo moč.

So anyway, we began the journey.

Kakorkoli, začeli smo potovanje.

And here you see people like Mary Robinson, I went to see in Geneva.

Tukaj vidite ljudi, kot je Mary Robinson, ki sem jo obiskal v Ženevi.

I'm cutting my hair, it's getting short and long,

Ostrigel sem si lase, pa jih spet pustil zrasti,

because every time I saw Kofi Annan,

kajti vsakič, ko sem srečal Kofija Anana,

I was so worried that he thought I was a hippie that I cut it,

me je skrbelo, da bi mislil, da sem hipi, zato sem jih ostrigel.

and that was kind of what was going on.

In to je tisto, kar se je dogajalo.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

Yeah, I'm not worried about it now.

Ja, zdaj me to več ne skrbi.

So Mary Robinson,

Mary Robinson mi je rekla:

she said to me, "Listen, this is an idea whose time has come. This must be created."

"Prišel je pravi čas za tole zamisel. To je treba uresničiti."

Kofi Annan said, "This will be beneficial to my troops on the ground."

Kofi Anan je rekel: "To bo koristilo mojim četam na položajih."

The OAU at the time, led by Salim Ahmed Salim,

Organizacija afriške enotnosti, ki jo je v tistem času vodil Ahmed Salim,

said, "I must get the African countries involved."

je menila: "Vključiti moramo afriške države."

Dr. Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace laureate,

Dr. Oscar Arias, nobelovec,

president now of Costa Rica,

zdaj predsednik Kostarike,

said, "I'll do everything that I can."

je dejal: "Naredil bom vse, kar lahko."

So I went and saw Amr Moussa at the League of Arab States.

Srečal sem tudi Amr Muso iz Lige arabskih držav.

I met Mandela at the Arusha peace talks,

Med mirovnimi pogajanji v Arushi sem srečal Mandelo.

and so on and so on and so on --

In tako naprej in tako naprej...

while I was building the case

ko sem iskal podporo,

to prove whether this idea

da bi videl, ali ima zamisel

would make sense.

kak smisel.

And then we were listening to the people. We were documenting everywhere.

In prisluhnili smo ljudem. Povsod smo dokumentirali.

76 countries in the last 12 years, I've visited.

76 držav sem obiskal v zadnjih 12 letih.

And I've always spoken to women and children wherever I've gone.

In vedno sem se pogovarjal z ženskami in otroki.

I've recorded 44,000 young people.

Posnel sem 44.000 mladih.

I've recorded about 900 hours of their thoughts.

Posnel sem za okoli 900 ur njihovih misli.

I'm really clear about how young people feel

Res mi je jasno, kako mladi razmišljajo,

when you talk to them about this idea

ko jim govorimo o zamisli,

of having a starting point for their actions for a more peaceful world

da bi imeli začetno točko za njihova prizadevanja za mirnejši svet,

through their poetry, their art, their literature,

skozi njihovo poezijo, umetnost, literaturo,

their music, their sport, whatever it might be.

glasbo, šport, karkoli.

And we were listening to everybody.

Vsem smo prisluhnili.

And it was an incredibly thing, working with the U.N.

Nekaj posebnega je bilo v tej akciji delati z Združenimi narodi

and working with NGOs and building this case.

in z nevladnimi organizacijami.

I felt that I was presenting a case

Čutil sem, da s tem delom

on behalf of the global community

govorim v imenu globalne skupnosti,

to try and create this day.

z namenom ustvariti ta dan.

And the stronger the case and the more detailed it was,

In močnejši in bolj podroben ko je postajal predlog,

the better chance we had of creating this day.

boljše možnosti smo imeli, da nam uspe doseči ta dan.

And it was this stuff, this,

Tisto, o čemer sem na začetku

where I actually was in the beginning

pravzaprav razmišljal, da ni pomembno,

kind of thinking no matter what happened, it didn't actually matter.

kaj se zgodi, to dejansko ni bilo pomembno.

It didn't matter if it didn't create a day of peace.

Ni bilo pomembno, ali mi uspe ustvariti dan miru ali ne.

The fact is that, if I tried and it didn't work,

Dejstvo je, da sem poskusil, in če ne bi delovalo,

then I could make a statement

bi lahko izjavil,

about how unwilling the global community is to unite --

da se svetovna skupnost noče poenotiti...

until, it was in Somalia, picking up that young girl.

dokler nisem - bilo je v Somaliji - v roke vzel te mlade punčke.

And this young child

In ta mladi otrok,

who'd taken about an inch and a half out of her leg with no antiseptic,

kateremu so iz noge brez antiseptika odstranili za palec in pol velik del,

and that young boy who was a child soldier,

in fantek, ki je bil otroški vojak,

who told me he'd killed people -- he was about 12 --

ki mi je povedal, da je ubijal ... star je bil kakih 12 let...

these things made me realize

zaradi teh stvari sem spoznal,

that this was not a film that I could just stop.

da ne gre za film, ki ga lahko enostavno ustavim.

And that actually, at that moment something happened to me,

In da se mi je takrat zgodilo nekaj,

which obviously made me go, "I'm going to document.

kar me je spodbudilo: "Dokumentiral bom.

If this is the only film that I ever make,

Če je to edini film, ki ga bom kdajkoli naredil,

I'm going to document until this becomes a reality."

bom to dokumentiral, dokler ne postane resnično."

Because we've got to stop, we've got to do something

Kajti moramo se ustaviti, narediti moramo nekaj,

where we unite --

kar nas bo združilo...

separate from all the politics and religion

brez povezave z vso to politiko in religijo,

that, as a young person, is confusing me.

ki me kot mladega človeka spravljata v zmedo.

I don't know how to get involved in that process.

Nisem vedel, kako naj se vključim v ta proces.

And then on the seventh of September, I was invited to New York.

Potem sem bil sedmega septembra povabljen v New York.

The Costa Rican government and the British government

Vladi Kostarike in Velike Britanije

had put forward to the United Nations General Assembly,

sta Generalni skupščini Združenih narodov,

with 54 co-sponsors,

skupaj s še 54 podpornicami

the idea of the first ever Ceasefire Nonviolence Day,

predložili zamisel za prvi dan premirja in nenasilja,

the 21st of September, as a fixed calendar date,

ki bi bil v koledarju vsakega 21. septembra,

and it was unanimously adopted by every head of state in the world.

kar so soglasno sprejeli vsi vodje držav sveta.

(Applause)

(aplavz)

Yeah, but there were hundreds of individuals, obviously, who made that a reality.

Ja, ampak za tem je stalo na stotine posameznikov, ki so idejo pomagali uresničiti.

And thank you to all of them.

Hvala vsem.

That was an incredible moment.

To je bil neverjeten trenutek.

I was at the top of the General Assembly just looking down into it and seeing it happen.

Sedel sem na vrhu Generalne skupščine in gledal, kako se uresničuje.

And as I mentioned, when it started,

Kot sem omenil, ko se je začelo,

we were at the Globe, and there was no press.

smo bili v "Globe" in mediji niso prišli.

And now I was thinking, "Well, the press it really going to hear this story."

Zdaj pa sem si mislil: "No, mediji bodo vsekakor slišali to zgodbo."

And suddenly, we started to institutionalize this day.

In nenadoma smo začeli ta dan institucionalizirati.

Kofi Annan invited me on the morning of September the 11th

Kofi Anan me je zjutraj 11. septembra povabil,

to do a press conference.

naj imam tiskovno konferenco.

And it was 8:00 AM when I stood there.

Ob osmih zjutraj sem bil tam.

And I was waiting for him to come down, and I knew that he was on his way.

Čakal sem ga, da pride dol, in vedel sem, da je na poti.

And obviously he never came down. The statement was never made.

Seveda ni nikoli prišel. Do izjave ni prišlo.

The world was never told there was a day of global ceasefire and nonviolence.

Svet ni nikoli izvedel, da obstaja dan svetovnega premirja in nenasilja.

And it was obviously a tragic moment

To je bil seveda tragičen trenutek

for the thousands of people who lost their lives,

za tisoče ljudi, ki so izgubili življenje,

there and then subsequently all over the world.

tam in kasneje po vsem svetu.

It never happened.

Nikoli se ni zgodilo.

And I remember thinking,

In spomnim se, da sem razmišljal,

"This is exactly why, actually,

"Prav zato moramo v resnici

we have to work even harder.

delati še bolj trdo.

And we have to make this day work.

Ta dan mora uspeti.

It's been created; nobody knows.

Ustanovljen je, a nihče ne ve zanj.

But we have to continue this journey,

Toda nadaljevati moramo to potovanje

and we have to tell people,

in povedati ljudem

and we have to prove it can work."

in dokazati, da lahko deluje."

And I left New York freaked,

Iz New Yorka sem odšel prestrašen,

but actually empowered.

a hkrati močnejši.

And I felt inspired

Počutil sem se navdihnjenega

by the possibilities

zaradi vseh možnosti,

that if it did, then maybe we wouldn't see things like that.

ker če bi deloval, morda ne bi videvali takšnih stvari.

I remember putting that film out and going to cynics.

Spomnim se objave filma in soočenja s ciniki.

I was showing the film,

Prikazoval sem film

and I remember being in Israel and getting it absolutely slaughtered

in spomnim se, da so ga v Izraelu nekateri gledalci

by some guys having watched the film --

popolnoma opljuvali...

that it's just a day of peace, it doesn't mean anything.

da je to samo en dan miru, to nič ne pomeni.

It's not going to work; you're not going to stop the fighting in Afghanistan;

Ne bo delovalo, ne boste prekinili vojskovanja v Afganistanu,

the Taliban won't listen, etc., etc.

talibani ne bodo poslušali, itd., itd.

It's just symbolism.

Gre samo za simbolizem.

And that was even worse

To je bilo na nek način še hujše

than actually what had just happened in many ways,

od tega, kar se je bilo pravkar zgodilo,

because it couldn't not work.

saj ni bilo mogoče, da stvar ne bi delovala.

I'd spoken in Somalia, Burundi, Gaza, the West Bank,

Govoril sem v Somaliji, Burundiju, Gazi, Zahodnem bregu,

India, Sri Lanka, Congo, wherever it was,

Indiji, Šri Lanki, Kongu, kjerkoli sem bil,

and they'd all tell me, "If you can create a window of opportunity,

in vsi so menili: "Če je mogoče odpreti okno priložnosti,

we can move aid, we can vaccinate children.

lahko dostavimo pomoč, lahko cepimo otroke.

Children can lead their projects.

Otroci lahko izvajajo svoje projekte.

They can unite. They can come together. If people would stop, lives will be saved."

Lahko se združijo, pridejo skupaj. Če bi se ljudje ustavili, bi rešili življenja."

That's what I'd heard.

To so mi pravili.

And I'd heard that from the people who really understood what conflict was about.

In to sem slišal od ljudi, ki so res razumeli pomen konflikta.

And so I went back to the United Nations.

Tako sem se vrnil v Združene narode.

I decided that I'd continue filming and make another movie.

Odločil sem se, da bom nadaljeval in posnel še en film.

And I went back to the U.N. for another couple of years.

Še za nekaj let sem se vrnil v OZN.

We started moving around the corridors of the U.N. system,

Začeli smo se premikati po kuloarjih OZN,

governments and NGOs,

vlad in nevladnih organizacij,

trying desperately to find somebody

in obupano iskali nekoga,

to come forward and have a go at it,

ki bi si upal poskusiti,

see if we could make it possible.

in videti, ali je stvar uresničljiva.

And after lots and lots of meetings obviously,

Po mnogih opravljenih sestankih

I'm delighted that this man, Ahmad Fawzi,

sem bil vesel, da je tale, Ahmad Fawzi,

one of my heroes and mentors really,

eden mojih herojev in mentorjev,

he managed to get UNICEF involved.

uspel pritegniti UNICEF.

And UNICEF, God bless them, they said, "Okay, we'll have a go."

Pri UNICEF-u, bog jih blagoslovi, so obljubili: "Prav, poskusili bomo."

And then UNAMA became involved in Afghanistan.

Potem je v Afganistanu začela delovati misija UNAMA.

It was historical. Could it work in Afghanistan

Bilo je zgodovinsko. Bi lahko v Afganistanu

with UNAMA and WHO

stvar delovala s pomočjo misije UNAMA in Svetovne zdravstvene organizacije (WHO)

and civil society, etc., etc., etc.?

ter civilne družbe, itd., itd.?

And I was getting it all on film and I was recording it,

Vse to sem snemal na filmski trak in dokumentiral

and I was thinking, "This is it. This is the possibility of it maybe working.

in mislil sem si: "To je to. To je možnost, da bo mogoče delovalo.

But even if it doesn't, at least the door is open

Ampak tudi če ne bi, vsaj vrata so odprta

and there's a chance."

in obstaja možnost."

And so I went back to London,

Tako sem se vrnil v London

and I went and saw this chap, Jude Law.

in šel obiskat tegale, Juda Lawa.

And I saw him because he was an actor, I was an actor,

Obiskal sem ga, ker je igralec, kot sem tudi jaz.

I had a connection to him,

Imel sem stik z njim

because we needed to get to the press, we needed this attraction,

in ker smo morali pritegniti medije, smo potrebovali to zvezdo,

we needed the media to be involved.

potrebovali smo vpletenost medijev.

Because if we start pumping it up a bit maybe more people would listen

Kajti če bi stvar malo napihnili, bi morda več ljudi prisluhnilo

and there'd be more --

in bilo bi več...

when we got into certain areas,

ko bi prišli na določena območja,

maybe there would be more people interested.

bi morda vzbudili zanimanje več ljudi.

And maybe we'd be helped financially a little bit more,

In morda bi dobili malo več finančne pomoči,

which had been desperately difficult.

kar je bilo izjemno težko,

I won't go into that.

ne bom se spuščal v to.

So Jude said, "Okay, I'll do some statements for you."

Jude je pristal: "Prav, posnel bom nekaj izjav zate."

While I was filming these statements, he said to me, "Where are you going next?"

Ko smo jih snemali, me je vprašal: "Kam greš od tu?"

I said, "I'm going to go to Afghanistan." He said, "Really?"

Dejal sem: "V Afganistan grem." Rekel je: "Res?"

And I could sort of see a little look in his eye of interest.

In videl sem trohico zanimanja pri njem.

So I said to him, "Do you want to come with me?

Tako sem ga vprašal: "Bi šel z mano?

It'd be really interesting if you came.

Bilo bi res zanimivo, če bi šel.

It would help and bring attention.

Pomagalo bi pritegniti pozornost.

And that attention

In ta pozornost

would help leverage the situation,

bi pomagala vplivati na situacijo

as well as all of the other sides of it."

in na vse druge plati."

I think there's a number of pillars to success.

Mislim, da obstajajo številni stebri uspeha.

One is you've got to have a great idea.

Eden od njih je imeti dobro idejo.

The other is you've got to have a constituency, you've got to have finance,

Drugi je imeti dobro bazo, imeti morate finančna sredstva

and you've got to be able to raise awareness.

in sposobni morate biti ozaveščati.

And actually I could never raise awareness by myself, no matter what I'd achieved.

Ljudi nikoli ne bi mogel ozaveščati sam, ne glede na to, kar sem dosegel.

So these guys were absolutely crucial.

Tako da so bili tile fantje odločilni.

So he said yes,

Pristal je

and we found ourselves in Afghanistan.

in znašla sva se v Afganistanu.

It was a really incredible thing that when we landed there,

Bilo je res neverjetno, toda ko sva se pojavila tam,

I was talking to various people, and they were saying to me,

sem se pogovarjal z različnimi ljudmi in vsi so mi govorili:

"You've got to get everybody involved here.

"Tukaj moraš vključiti vse.

You can't just expect it to work. You have to get out and work."

Ne moreš kar računati, da bo delovalo. Ven moraš, na delo."

And we did, and we traveled around,

In sva šla, potovala sva naokoli,

and we spoke to elders, we spoke to doctors, we spoke to nurses,

govorila s starešinami, z zdravniki, z medicinskimi sestrami,

we held press conferences, we went out with soldiers,

imela sva tiskovne konference, šla ven z vojaki,

we sat down with ISAF, we sat down with NATO,

se srečala z ISAF-om, z NATO-m,

we sat down with the U.K. government.

se srečala z britansko vlado.

I mean, we basically sat down with everybody --

Mislim, skoraj z vsemi sva se srečala...

in and out of schools with ministers of education,

v šolah in izven njih z ministri za izobraževanje,

holding these press conferences,

imela tiskovne konference,

which of course, now were loaded with press, everybody was there.

ki so bile sedaj seveda polne novinarjev, vsi so bili tam.

There was an interest in what was going on.

Ljudi je zanimalo, kaj se dogaja.

This amazing woman, Fatima Gailani, was absolutely instrumental in what went on

Ta izjemna ženska, Fatima Magalani, je bila ključna za celotno dogajanje,

as she was the spokesperson for the resistance against the Russians.

ker je bila tiskovna predstavnica upornikov proti Rusom.

And her Afghan network

In njena afganistanska mreža

was just absolutely everywhere.

je bila čisto povsod.

And she was really crucial in getting the message in.

In bila je res ključna za to, da smo predali sporočilo.

And then we went home. We'd sort of done it.

In potem sva šla domov. Na nek način sva opravila svoje.

We had to wait now and see what happened.

Sedaj sva morala počakati in videti, kaj se bo zgodilo.

And I got home,

Vrnil sem se domov,

and I remember one of the team bringing in a letter to me

in spomnim se, kako mi je sodelavec prinesel pismo,

from the Taliban.

ki so ga poslali talibani.

And that letter basically said, "We'll observe this day.

V njem je pisalo: "Obeležili bomo ta dan.

We will observe this day.

Obeležili bomo ta dan.

We see it as a window of opportunity.

Vidimo ga kot priložnost.

And we will not engage. We're not going to engage."

In ne bomo se bojevali. Ne bomo se bojevali."

And that meant that humanitarian workers

In to je pomenilo, da ne bodo

wouldn't be kidnapped or killed.

ugrabili ali ubili humanitarnih delavcev.

And then suddenly, I obviously knew at this point, there was a chance.

In potem sem nenadoma na tej točki seveda vedel, da obstaja možnost.

And days later,

Čez nekaj dni

1.6 million children were vaccinated against polio

so 1.6 milijona otrok cepili proti otroški paralizi,

as a consequence of everybody stopping.

kot posledico tega, da so se vsi ustavili.

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And like the General Assembly,

In kot na Generalni skupščini,

obviously the most wonderful, wonderful moment.

očitno najlepši, najlepši trenutek.

And so then we wrapped the film up and we put it together

In tako smo dokončali film in ga sestavili,

because we had to go back.

saj smo morali iti nazaj.

We put it into Dari and Pashto. We put it in the local dialects.

Prevedli smo ga v dari in pašto. Prevedli smo ga v lokalna narečja.

We went back to Afghanistan,

Vrnili smo se v Afganistan,

because the next year was coming, and we wanted to support.

saj se je bližalo naslednje leto in hoteli smo pomagati.

But more importantly, we wanted to go back,

A pomembneje je, da smo se želeli vrniti,

because these people in Afghanistan were the heroes.

ker so afganistanski ljudje heroji.

They were the people who believed in peace

To so ljudje, ki so verjeli v mir

and the possibilities of it, etc., etc. -- and they made it real.

in v možnosti zanj, itd., itd. ... in ga uresničili.

And we wanted to go back and show them the film

In vrniti smo se hoteli, da jim pokažemo film

and say, "Look, you guys made this possible. And thank you very much."

in rečemo: "Poglejte, vi ste to omogočili. Najlepša vam hvala."

And we gave the film over.

In predali smo jim film.

Obviously it was shown, and it was amazing.

Seveda so ga prikazali in bilo je čudovito.

And then that year, that year, 2008,

In tistega leta, leta 2008,

this ISAF statement from Kabul, Afghanistan, September 17th:

je prišla izjava ISAF-a iz Kabula v Afganistanu, 17. septembra:

"General Stanley McChrystal,

"General Stanley McCrystal,

commander of international security assistance forces in Afghanistan,

poveljnik mednarodnih varnostnih sil v Afganistanu,

announced today ISAF will not conduct offensive military operations

je danes najavil, da ISAF 21. septembra

on the 21st of September."

ne bo opravljal ofenzivnih vojaških operacij."

They were saying they would stop.

Rekli so, da se bodo ustavili.

And then there was this other statement

Potem je prišla še druga izjava,

that came out from the U.N. Department of Security and Safety

ki je prišla z ministrstva za varnost,

saying that, in Afghanistan,

rekoč, da je v Afganistanu,

because of this work,

zaradi tega dela

the violence was down by 70 percent.

nasilje upadlo za 70 odstotkov.

70 percent reduction in violence on this day at least.

Sedemdesetodstotno zmanjšanje nasilja vsaj na ta dan.

And that completely blew my mind

In to me je čisto odneslo,

almost more than anything.

skoraj bolj kot karkoli drugega.

And I remember being stuck in New York, this time because of the volcano,

Spomnim se, da sem bil ujet v New Yorku, tokrat zaradi vulkana,

which was obviously much less harmful.

kar je imelo seveda veliko manjše posledice.

And I was there thinking about what was going on.

Razmišljal sem o tem, kar se je dogajalo.

And I kept thinking about this 70 percent.

In nisem mogel pozabiti na tistih 70 odstotkov.

70 percent reduction in violence --

70-odstotno zmanjšanje nasilja...

in what everyone said was completely impossible

za kar so vsi govorili, da je povsem nemogoče

and you couldn't do.

in da se tega ne da narediti.

And that made me think that, if we can get 70 percent in Afghanistan,

Pomislil sem, da če lahko dosežemo 70 odstotkov v Afganistanu,

then surely we can get 70 percent reduction everywhere.

potem gotovo lahko dosežemo 70-odstotno zmanjšanje tudi drugod.

We have to go for a global truce.

Zavzeti se moramo za globalno premirje.

We have to utilize this day of ceasefire and nonviolence

Ta dan premirja in nenasilja moramo uporabiti

and go for a global truce,

za globalno premirje,

go for the largest recorded cessation of hostilities,

za največjo zabeleženo prekinitev ognja,

both domestically and internationally, ever recorded.

doma in po svetu,

That's exactly what we must do.

Prav to moramo storiti.

And on the 21st of September this year,

In 21. septembra letos

we're going to launch that campaign at the O2 Arena

bomo v Areni O2 sprožili kampanjo

to go for that process,

v smeri tega procesa,

to try and create the largest recorded cessation of hostilities.

da poskusimo ustvariti največjo zabeleženo prekinitev ognja.

And we will utilize all kinds of things --

Uporabili bomo vsakovrstne pristope...

have a dance and social media

ples in socialne medije,

and visiting on Facebook and visit the website, sign the petition.

obiske na Facebooku in spletni strani, podpise peticije.

And it's in the six official languages of the United Nations.

Vse to v šestih uradnih jezikih Združenih narodov.

And we'll globally link with government, inter-government,

Globalno se bomo povezali z vladami, medvladniki,

non-government, education, unions, sports.

nevladniki, šolstvom, sindikati, športom.

And you can see the education box there.

Tule lahko vidite šolstvo.

We've got resources at the moment in 174 countries

Trenutno imamo vire v 174 državah,

trying to get young people to be the driving force

kjer poskušamo mlade spodbuditi, da bi bili gonilo

behind the vision of that global truce.

vizije za globalno premirje.

And obviously the life-saving is increased, the concepts help.

In seveda to pomeni več rešenih življenj, koncepti pomagajo.

Linking up with the Olympics --

Povezave z olimpijskimi igrami...

I went and saw Seb Coe. I said, "London 2012 is about truce.

Obiskal sem Sebastiana Coe-ja. Rekel sem mu: "London 2012 je povezan s premirjem.

Ultimately, that's what it's about."

To je tisto, za kar v končni fazi gre."

Why don't we all team up? Why don't we bring truce to life?

Zakaj se vsi ne povežemo? Zakaj ne oživimo premirja?

Why don't you support the process of the largest ever global truce?

Zakaj ne podprete procesa za največje globalno premirje vseh časov?

We'll make a new film about this process.

O tem procesu bomo posneli nov film.

We'll utilize sport and football.

Uporabili bomo šport in nogomet.

On the Day of Peace, there's thousands of football matches all played,

Na dan miru se igra na tisoče nogometnih tekem,

from the favelas of Brazil to wherever it might be.

v brazilskih favelah in kjerkoli drugje.

So, utilizing all of these ways

Na vse te načine bomo

to inspire individual action.

navdihnili delovanje posameznikov.

And ultimately, we have to try that.

In konec koncev, to moramo poskusiti.

We have to work together.

Delati moramo skupaj.

And when I stand here in front of all of you,

In ko stojim tu pred vami

and the people who will watch these things,

in pred ljudmi, ki bodo to gledali,

I'm excited, on behalf of everybody I've met,

sem vznemirjen, v imenu vseh, ki sem jih srečal,

that there is a possibility that our world could unite,

da obstaja možnost, da bi se naš svet združil,

that we could come together as one,

postal eno,

that we could lift the level of consciousness around the fundamental issues,

dvignil zavest o temeljnih vprašanjih,

brought about by individuals.

ki si jih postavljajo posamezniki.

I was with Brahimi, Ambassador Brahimi.

Bil sem z ambasadorjem Brahimijem.

I think he's one of the most incredible men

Mislim, da je eden najbolj neverjetnih ljudi

in relation to international politics -- in Afghanistan, in Iraq.

v svetu mednarodne politike - v Afganistanu, v Iraku.

He's an amazing man.

Čudovit človek je.

And I sat with him a few weeks ago.

Srečala sva se pred nekaj tedni

And I said to him, "Mr. Brahimi, is this nuts, going for a global truce?

in rekel sem mu:"G. Brahimi, je to nora ideja, da hočemo globalno premirje?

Is this possible? Is it really possible that we could do this?"

Je to mogoče? Je to res mogoče narediti?"

He said, "It's absolutely possible."

Dejal je: "Absolutno je mogoče."

I said, "What would you do?

Rekel sem: "Kaj bi vi storili?

Would you go to governments and lobby and use the system?"

Bi šli k vladam in lobirali in uporabili sistem?"

He said, "No, I'd talk to the individuals."

Odgovoril je: "Ne, pogovarjal bi se s posamezniki."

It's all about the individuals.

Vse je v posameznikih.

It's all about you and me.

Gre zame in za vas.

It's all about partnerships.

Gre za partnerstva.

It's about your constituencies; it's about your businesses.

Gre za naše baze, naše posle.

Because together, by working together,

Kajti, če delujemo skupaj,

I seriously think we can start to change things.

res mislim, da lahko začnemo spreminjati stvari.

And there's a wonderful man sitting in this audience, and I don't know where he is,

Tule v občinstvu sedi čudovit človek, ne vem, kje je,

who said to me a few days ago -- because I did a little rehearsal --

ki mi je pred nekaj dnevi dejal... ko sem imel majhno vajo...

and he said, "I've been thinking about this day

dejal je: "Razmišljal sem o tem dnevu

and imagining it as a square

in si ga predstavljal kot kvadrat

with 365 squares,

s 365 kvadratki,

and one of them is white."

od katerih je eden bel."

And it then made me think about a glass of water, which is clear.

In to me je navedlo na misel o kozarcu čiste vode.

If you put one drop,

Če vanj spustite kapljico,

one drop of something, in that water,

eno kapljico nečesa,

it'll change it forever.

bo to vodo spremenilo za zmeraj.

By working together, we can create peace one day.

Če delamo skupaj, lahko nekega dne ustvarimo mir.

Thank you TED. Thank you.

Hvala, TED. Hvala.

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Thank you.

Hvala.

(Applause)

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Thanks a lot.

Hvala lepa.

(Applause)

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Thank you very much. Thank you.

Najlepša hvala. Hvala.