DPCW_1038: Realization of the DPCW

Spreading a Culture of Peace with

Peace Messengers around the World

2020 has been a difficult year for the world and HWPL. A global pandemic has posed threats to our daily lives, and we are placed in situations where changes in our way of life are inevitable in order to get through the difficulties. At times like this, sympathy and solidarity are needed more than ever to overcome the current crisis, but HWPL is instead facing hatred and stigma in Korea due to COVID-19 and is struggling to protect its charter.

 

Nevertheless, no wars or diseases could stop humanity from aspiring for prosperity and better lives over the history. The present difficulties came upon us all too suddenly and threw everyone into confusion, but at the same time, we are reminded of the value of peace and safety, why efforts such as the peace activities of HWPL are needed, what has been done, and what can be done from now. If we turn this crisis into opportunity and seek ways to let more people in the world know the importance of peace, we will be able to uphold the noble value of "the achievement of global peace."

 

As the year 2021 is drawing near, HWPL is planning to step up its initiatives - the "Legislate Peace" project for the realization of the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW), comparison of religious scriptures at the World Alliance of Religions' Peace (WARP) Office, and Peace Education - which have progressed on online platforms this year. Now that COVID-19 is accelerating the trend toward contact-free methods, this time will be an opportunity to explore and experiment new approaches to the initiatives of HWPL.

 

Through webinars and contact-free meetings, anyone can participate in peace activities as long as they have Internet access in their regions.

This kind of platform will surpass the limitations of offline meetings, which are confined to particular locations, and it will allow people around the globe to communicate and interact with one another.

 

HWPL hopes to think together about human rights and social solidarity, which have emerged as important values in the COVID-19 era. By encouraging webinars and academic activities, HWPL will attempt to hold discussions on public perception of discrimination, hatred, scapegoating of the weak and minorities that have intensified through an infectious disease and ways to improve such social conditions.

 

The outcome of the discussions can be reflected in the peace education curriculum and taught to the growing generation.

 

HWPL will find what we can do as a peace organization to overcome the global difficulties caused by COVID-19 and participate in the effort. Also, in order to enhance our communication with our members, who share the common goal of creating a permanent peace, and to gather creative ideas for our peace initiatives next year, HWPL would like to receive policy proposals as below. Please refer to the cases below, and if you have any suggestions for contact-free peace activities that HWPL may try in the COVID-19 era, please fill out the form attached at the bottom of the page and send it to info@hwpl.kr.

 

Through the unprecedented difficulties that confront us today, we realize once again that the world is connected as one. Now is the time when partnership for sustainable peace is important.

The peaceful life that we may enjoy at the moment can be attacked anytime, and our small contributions can make big changes. We look forward to receiving great ideas and suggestions from peace volunteers.

 

■ Information about Policy Proposals for 2021

ㆍTheme: Post-COVID, a New Policy Proposal to Boost HWPL Peace Program

- Keywords: COVID-19, post-COVID, contact-free peace activities

- Part1 : Ways to boost the three key initiatives of HWPL

(implementation of the DPCW, WARP Office, and peace education)

- Part2 : Activities that can realize the DPCW and spread a culture of peace (ex. volunteer work, humanitarian activities, etc)

ㆍWhen: November 1 – December 10, 2020

ㆍWho: HWPL members and global citizens who are interested in peace activities

ㆍDocument for Submission: 1 copy of Proposal

 

■ How to Participate

ㆍFill out the form attached at the bottom of the page and send it to info@hwpl.kr (*contact-free method)

 

More information?

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http://hwpl.kr/en/news/view/201028476/0/POLICYPROPOSAL

 

#HWPL #PEACE_WORLD #DPCW_`1038 #PEACE_EDUCATION #PEACE_SCHOOL

 

International Days OCT 31: World Cities Day

 Urban October 2019

 Urban October 2019 celebrated around the world

      

World Habitat Day 2019

    

The theme of World Habitat Day 2019 was Frontier technologies as an innovative tool to transform waste to wealth with the Global Observance being held in Mexico City.

     

World Cities Day 2019

      

The theme of World Cities Day 2019 was Changing the world: Innovations and a better life for future generations with the Global Observance held in Ekaterinburg.

 

Background

 

Urbanization provides the potential for new forms of social inclusion, including greater equality, access to services and new opportunities, and engagement and mobilization that reflects the diversity of cities, countries and the globe. Yet too often this is not the shape of urban development. Inequality and exclusion abound, often at rates greater than the national average, at the expense of sustainable development that delivers for all.

 

Urban October was launched by UN-Habitat in 2014 to emphasize the world’s urban challenges and engage the international community towards the New Urban Agenda.

 

Sustainable Development Goal 11, which formulates the ambition to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable - underlying the relevance of UN-Habitat’s mission. Inequalities in cities have grown since 1980. The world largest cities are also often the most unequal, and this year’s theme is embraced by the action and implementation of the New Urban Agenda, which is putting the topic of inclusive cities as one of the main pillars for the urban shift.

 

In October 2016, the HABITAT III Conference, held in Quito, adopted a new framework, which will set the world on a course towards sustainable urban development by rethinking how cities are planned, managed and inhabited. The New Urban Agenda will set the pace on how to deal with the challenges of urbanization in the next two decades, and is seen as an extension of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, agreed on by the 193 Member States of the UN in September 2015.

 

 

 

#INTERNATIONAL_DAY #UN #DPCW_1038 #HWPL #PEACE_WORLD #PEACE_WALK

 

https://www.un.org/en/observances/cities-day

https://www.un.org/en/

 

DPCW_1038 : Pray for overcoming COVID-19.

 
Members of different religions during a zoom prayer meeting.

Korea: On October 18th,2020 religious members who cooperate with Heavenly Culture World Peace Restoration of Right (HWPL) in 4 countries held an online religious meeting in the hopes of overcoming COVID-19.

   

About 40 people representing various beliefs such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity participated at ‘2020 religious meeting for the end of COVID-19 and sustainable peace’, which was hosted by HWPL Department of World Alliance of Religion Scriptures Education, JeonBuk branch.

  In the face of COVID-19 global disaster, the ‘Prayer Meeting’ was organized to overcome the crisis transcending denominations and religious affiliations.

 

At the prayer meeting, Christians and Catholics prayed, Buddhists joined their hands in prayers, Hindus recited prayers in Sanskrit, and the rest read their own scriptures.

   

 

Attendees participating

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   All attendees expressed their wish to put an end to the COVID-19 outbreak in their own ways.

 

 

Participants at the meeting also regularly participated at the interfaith dialogues called World Alliance of Religion Peace(WARP) office.

 

 

At the WARP office, participants compare different religious scriptures and achieve interfaith reconciliation and solidarity on the basis of the most trustworthy scriptures in order to resolve all the global conflicts caused by religions and make the world of peace.

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   Rev. Canon William Ongeng of Anglican Church in Uganda said “We hope end of COVID-19 and restoration of globe with same mind despite of each other religions, and I felt deep impression as it let us find as like-minded as others.”

    Ven. Dr. Ashin Acara of Anglican Church in America, said “Religious members must break the wall of denomination, sect and religion then must be one in the situation that Everyone in the world are suffering from COVID-19“ and “I think peace of HWPL has connection with sincere unity and solidarity of religion.“

    Currently, HWPL is running 253 WARP offices in 129 countries. HWPL JeonBuk branch is working with one in America, two in Kenya, one in Uganda and one in Cambodia.

   Religious Members from Four Countries, Cooperate to End COVID-19, Achieve World Peace

 

 

Furthermore, HWPL is stepping up along with various civil societies to play the key role in bringing the world of peace and cessation of armed conflicts beyond the boundaries of politics, religions, nationalities, and ethnicities.

 

Recently, HWPL volunteers who recovered from the COVID-19 infections participated in massive plasma donation twice to overcome COVID-19 pandemic together.

 

HWPL is also working closely with human rights experts in order to resolve human rights infringements related with COVID-19 outbreak.

  

 

#STAY_AT_HOME #DPCW_1038 #HWPL #COVID_19

 

 

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Eagle Online-Religious Members in Four Countries, Cooperate for the End of COVID-19 and the Achievement of World Peace

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DPCW_1038 : The light of Peace is You

 

 

 

Dear Family of Peace from all over the world!

 

"It's like a long dark tunnel we're going through now, but only the light can shine in the darkness"

 

Every September, a voice cried out for peace, resonating all over the world.

 

We remember that passionate cry for peace.

 

We've been facing one of the toughest crises of all time.

 

The fear of disease has changed our entire lives and made us forget that there is still hope.

 

#STAYatHOME #STOP_COVID_19

 

However, the deeper the darkness we face.

 

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The greater our hope becomes even if it's only a thin ray of light.

  #peace_world #COVID_19 #HWPL #PEACE_WALK #DPCW_1038

 

You, who have been together for peace.

 

WE
ARE
ONE.

 

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 17 October

Persons living in poverty experience many interrelated and mutually reinforcing deprivations that prevent them from realizing their rights and perpetuate their poverty, including:

 

dangerous work conditions

unsafe housing

lack of nutritious food

unequal access to justice

lack of political power

limited access to health care

 

 

2020 Theme: Acting together to achieve social and environmental justice for all

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The theme for the Day this year addresses the challenge of achieving social and environmental justice for all. The growing recognition of the multi-dimensionality of poverty means that these two issues are inseparably intertwined, and that social justice cannot be fully realized without aggressively rectifying environmental injustices at the same time.

 

Whereas progress has been made in addressing income poverty, there has been less success in addressing the other important dimensions of poverty, including the rapidly growing impact of the environment, within a more holistic approach.

 

People living in extreme poverty, often through sheer necessity, are the first to act decisively within their communities in response to poverty, climate change and environmental challenges.

 

However, their efforts and experience often go unnoticed and unappreciated; their ability to contribute positively to solutions has been overlooked; they are not recognized as drivers of change, and their voices are not heard, especially in international bodies.

 

 

 

This must change.

The participation, knowledge, contributions and experience of people living in poverty and those left behind must be valued, respected and reflected in our efforts to build an equitable and sustainable world in which there is social and environmental justice for all.

 

 

#POVERTY #INTERNATIONAL_DAY #HWPL #PEACE

 

https://www.un.org/en/observances/day-for-eradicating-poverty

DPCW_1038: Global citizens yearning for peace

 

Global citizens yearning for peace,

 

 

Greetings, I am Man Hee Lee, the chairman of Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL). This year, we had to wish for each other’s safety and peace amid the darkness cast over us by an unexpected pandemic.

 

The fear of the virus completely overturned our lives and continues to blind us from the moments of hope at times.

 

 

 Global citizens of peace,

 Although the reality we face today may seem like a long pitch dark tunnel, there is no need to be afraid if we have the light called “hope.” Even if it is a thin lining, the light will outshine the darkness as a profound hope.

 

That light of the world is you, as you work for peace by joining the efforts to build a peaceful world free of war to guarantee peace in the future.

 Your brave and sincere heart toward all mankind is breathing life into peace.

Surely,

the heart of all, who have worked hand in hand with HWPL for peace, will blossom into a flower called the culture of peace in different parts of the world.

 

Due to the rampant COVID-19,

we could not gather to meet in person at the HWPL World Peace Summit this month. However, this can serve as an opportunity for us to reflect upon the year that has passed from where we stand through various means, and also encourage and comfort each other. Furthermore, for the upcoming year of 2021, we will be striving to lay out a plan to realize peace by discussing and examining what we can do. These steps we take for peace, which will forever go down in history as the lasting light, will continue until we reach our goal.

 

Respected members of the family for peace,

Thousands of HWPL members have been making a practical contribution to resolving the pandemic by having several rounds of donating blood plasma. Let us hope together for the swift development of treatment and vaccine against COVID-19 and wish together for the good health and safety of those who have been taking part in the endeavors for peace.

 

We have the answer to peace, and we are not alone, as we have the two wings of the International Peace Youth Group (IPYG) and the International Women’s Peace Group (IWPG) collaborating with us for our shared goal. Furthermore, when every individual of our worldwide coalition for peace become one, what we have been hoping for will become a reality.

 

Let us pass down a world of peace as a lasting legacy to the generations to come.

We are one!

 

 

 Man Hee Lee
Chairman

 

 

 Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL)
http://hwpl.kr/

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