<P> "Let There Be Peace on Earth" is a song written by Jill Jackson - Miller and Sy Miller in 1955 . It was initially written for and sung by the International Children's Choir created by Easter Beakly and Arthur Granger of the Granger Dance Academy in Long Beach, California . The song's composers led a number of rehearsals for the children's choir from 1955 to 1957, and the song continues to be the theme for this group of children who represent a host of nations and who sang in Washington, DC at the JW Marriott next to the White House in 2002 . </P> <P> Jackson - Miller, who had been suicidal after the failure of a marriage, later said that she wrote the song after discovering what she called the "life - saving joy of God's peace and unconditional love ." </P>

Who wrote let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me