Community action group Imagine Bermuda is encouraging people to observe the International Peace Day today.

The group wants people to join with the United Nations to pause and reflect for a minute at noon, to consider vulnerable families across the world.

Corporation of Hamilton parks and the Hamilton Seventh-day Adventist Church have been set aside between 11.45am and 12.15pm.

The theme for the day is “Together for Peace: Respect, Safety and Dignity for All”.

Imagine Bermuda said in a press release: “In Bermuda, we have experienced our share of polarisation and the outcome that flows from same. We also face the reality of having had more than a decade of murders of young men, caught up in a cycle of violence. In addition we have those ‘barriers’ that result in too many young people being fearful of travelling to various parts of our tiny island — a form of apartheid. All of us are being invited to offer any assistance to nurture the network within our community with the goal of restoring those families that have been impacted by the cycle of violence.”