Because the inaugural HWPL World Peace Summit in 2014, the group has pledged sensible approaches for battle decision by worldwide regulation, interfaith cooperation, and peace schooling. At this eleventh anniversary, HWPL offered its key achievements from the previous 12 months, notably the event of public–personal partnership fashions for embedding sustainable peace inside various nationwide contexts.
A central agenda merchandise was the worldwide growth of help for the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of Warfare (DPCW), HWPL’s proposed authorized framework to finish wars and set up lasting peace. The DPCW units out ideas such because the prohibition of using drive, battle prevention and mediation, and making certain sustainable peace.
Over the previous 12 months, 17 worldwide and regional our bodies—together with the Latin American and Caribbean Parliament (PARLATINO), the legislatures of Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, and South Sudan, in addition to native governments in the Philippines, Mongolia, the U.S. state of Georgia, Madagascar, Mali, and India—adopted resolutions in help of the DPCW.
Former President of Croatia H.E. Ivo Josipović gave congratulatory message saying, “all of us should be conscious that our exercise for banning conflict all through the world is extra vital now than ever.” and confused that this 12 months’s achievements are the assure that humankind will sooner or later obtain everlasting peace.
Chairman Lee Man-hee of HWPL emphasised world cooperation for peace, saying, “Battle can by no means be good. Solely the achievement of peace is really good. If we fail to determine a peaceable world in our time, we are going to burden future generations with battle. What we depart behind should be a world of peace, not one among battle. The work earlier than us at the moment is to commit ourselves to acts of goodness.”
Within the spiritual sector, the launch of the Solidarity of Religions’ Peace Committee (SRPC) was highlighted as a milestone. HWPL at the moment operates 292 WARP Places of work throughout 132 international locations, facilitating scripture-based dialogue and interfaith discussions. Since 2023, the HWPL Worldwide Spiritual Peace Academy has been applied as an interfaith studying program, formally acknowledged in a number of international locations as a platform for leaders and residents to interact in peace-centered dialogue.
In schooling, progress was made in institutionalizing HWPL Peace Schooling into public college curricula. Zambia launched this system throughout colleges in its capital Lusaka, and introduced plans for nationwide growth in cooperation with the Ministry of Schooling. Mongolia additionally reported developments in integrating HWPL Peace Schooling into each lifelong studying establishments and public schooling.
On the International Peace Schooling Convention, Mr. Ian Miyoba, Director of Schooling Coverage at Zambia’s Ministry of Schooling, acknowledged, “Via peace schooling, we’re amplifying residents’ voices for peace and fostering a tradition of peace. It might stop points like baby rights violations, baby marriage, and drug use, creating tangible change locally. That is what makes the HWPL Peace Schooling so distinctive and why it was the proper match for Zambia.”
Over the previous 12 months, HWPL’s world membership elevated by 140,000, surpassing 580,000. HWPL Secretary-Basic Kang Tae-ho famous in his progress report, “Residents worldwide, affected by wars and conflicts, strongly yearn for real peace past the present order. This collective aspiration has instantly led to the speedy development of HWPL’s membership.”
Whereas the Cheongju summit served because the centerpiece, HWPL emphasised that anniversary occasions will proceed in 78 international locations by October. Greater than 15,000 leaders from worldwide organizations, governments, and civil society are anticipated to take part in in-depth discussions on long-term methods for sustainable peace, tailor-made to their respective nationwide contexts.
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