Law, ambassador for the Peace One Day project set up in 1999 by British filmmaker Jeremy Gilley, was in the war-wracked country to promote its aims and show a film about events that marked the campaign in 2007.

'What we hope to do... is to remind all parties that it is happening and see then what happens through negotiations,' Law told a press conference in Kabul.

Talks with elders leading up to Peace Day 2007 allowed health workers to vaccinate 1.4 million Afghan children against polio in areas that had been off-limits as they were under Taliban influence, the United Nations said.

Describing the world as being in a 'disastrous state,' Law said the Peace Day project aimed to encourage all sides - 'whether they are fighting for change, killing for change' - to 'pause.' 'And if that pause is simply to allow, as we did in last year's call for action here, vaccinating children or bringing in food... then let's use that,' he said.

Law and Gilley, who were in Afghanistan in July last year, were due to meet Monday with the NATO-led military force that is helping Afghanistan fight a brutal Taliban insurgency marked by regular suicide attacks.

Peace Day was established on September 21 in a resolution adopted by the United Nations in 2001 after lobbying from Gilley's project and is intended to be a day of 'global ceasefire and non-violence.'

This year events are planned across the globe, ranging from football games and concerts to screenings of Gilley's new documentary 'The Day After Peace.'

'We are appalled at the situation in Afghanistan and beyond,' Gilley told reporters. 'Nobody wants people to suffer in the way that they are. That is precisely why we came back.' -- AFP