The Story that HWPL Peace Messengers Achieve Peace:
Peace Education
Many peace
messengers from all over the world attended the
“
7th Anniversary of the September 18th HWPL World Peace Summit
”
held online last
month. HWPL asked some common questions to the attendees for the future
activities. Many answered with all their heart, and HWPL would like to share
some of them.
Meet the stories
of the peace messengers who are achieving peace with HWPL in their respective fields
such as peace international law, alliance of religions, peace education, and
the IPYG!
Q1. How has HWPL peace activities influenced
you?
#EDUCATION
Bartholomew
Lumbasi Wanikina, Kenya Ministry of Education, Deputy Director of Education
I started working on HWPL's peace
education in Kenya for peace. I was able to realize how big a move and a good
impact they have by participating in offline events and webinars, discussing
and planning peace projects. I was also able to learn the passionate attitude
and aspirations of doing peace works because of a role model for peace,
chairman Lee. I have learned how to practice true sacrifices and have courage
for peace, so I will continue to take the lead in calling for peace and
promoting it worldwide.
#DPCW_1038
MELY S. MOJICA,
Federation of Christian Schools Cavite Philippines School Victorious Christian
Montessori, President (Principal)
Of course this is not just an influence
but I make use of my eyes to witness how the activities are held. So seeing the
activities presented, what enters my mind and even my heart is I'm going to
participate and confidently absolutely confident and also I will be surpassing
all the activities I have seen with God's help. That's why I have thought of so
many projects and activities and programs which I told you earlier that every
activity that we hold in the school will be submitted to the office of Mam
Alecka for confirmation if it's correct or if it's not correct or to be
improved more and it has to be repeated. Actually, it's the word peace that
attracted and struck my heart why I have decided at first to myself to join the
peace education task. And world peace also is the one who pushed me to discuss
it with my department heads and coordinators and even the people around me in
the community.
#GOD
I like peace to be injected to everybody's heart and everybody's mind because if there is peace there will be
less trouble, less misunderstanding and less everything, less covetousness,
less stealing, less drug addiction because peace is something that will teach
them on how to have a different lifestyle. Not just the lifestyle that they
have now but it is peace that will continuously teach them on how to live in
accordance with that expectation and also the expectation of HWPL which is the
job of my administration with my pictures with my department heads to
disseminate this idea of peace to our students to our parents and everybody
even in the school and other school members school and FCS.
#PEACE
Q2. Like the theme of the 7th Anniversary of the September 18
HWPL World Peace Summit, joint efforts are urgently needed for sustainable
peace. In times like this, what do you think is the 'common effort' for
sustainable peace? Also, what would your plans be for sustainable peace with
HWPL?
Bartholomew
Lumbasi Wanikina, Kenya Ministry of Education, Deputy Director of Education
I believe that
sustainable peace, as stated in the provisions of the DPCW, is to achieve peace
in the spirit of peace by the leaders of each country, leaders of all walks of
life, and civil society in order to achieve permanent peace.
#HWPL
I was appointed
as the official peace educator of HWPL starting from this event. Currently, as
the deputy director of education policy at the Kenya Ministry of Education, I
am trying to establish a plan to promote the special zone for peace education
while discussing the signing of an MOU for HWPL peace education to participate
in the work of peace. As a true peace educator, I will become a messenger of peace
that takes precedence in practice to carry all these things out sequentially.
#MOU
MELY S. MOJICA,
Federation of Christian Schools Cavite Philippines School Victorious Christian
Montessori, President (Principal)
Concerted
action is not actually hard to answer why because the song itself. We Are
One at the center of that song you will find out all together we have to work
as one.
And so
concerted means the collective effort of every peace lovers to to join without
reluctancy, without any hesitation but full support should be given. We have to
move one hand and hand in order that the advocacies of HWPL will be totally
hours.
#SCHOOL
As I told you,
we have included that in our school, peace education in our school activities, or school
calendar, rather, which we have submitted to the Division Office of Cavite,
even reaching the Regional Office of the Department of Education. And so at
this point, I would like to mention the willingness of our private school area
supervisor, Dr. Diane Topacio; she will be given the opportunity to go over the
activities and how we succeeded in the first month of implementation, or first
quarter, rather, of the implementation.
#IWPG
At
first, it was experimental, and at the same time, that
experiment was coupled with observations of how the teachers will teach, how
the students will accept the teaching,
how the teachers understand peace, and how the students will understand peace.
It is very useful at home, it is very useful in school, and it is very useful
among the friends they mingle with. So then, I did not hesitate anymore to
pursue all the programs that we are planning under peace education.
We are still preparing, however we were able to prepare the
following, more activities carefully and collectively planned with proper
prioritization. To match every activity in the Department of Education calendar
with the school, it is a trial. The HWPL activity, DEPED (Department of
Education) activity, and the school activity – every month, we will always be
observing peace education so that we can see the total progress, the
acceptance, and obedience of the participating families of the school towards
peace education.
HWPL’s peace work is unprecedented. I sincerely hope it will continue with great vigour into 2022 and beyond, as it seems peace and stability is needed now more than ever in these uncertain times. More than 30,000 people from 157 countries attended the 7th Anniversary HWPL World Peace Summit online on Sept. 18th 2021, and more than 200 schools worldwide have been designated HWPL Peace Academies, educating today's youth on the importance of peace.
ReplyDeleteMoreover, many heads of state - both existing and former - have publicly declared their support for HWPL's Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW), citing it as the only solution to ceasing all conflict and achieving peace on a global scale. The words of H.E. Viktor Yushchenko, former President of Ukraine, sums up the importance of the DPCW very well: “The DPCW is a perfect and balanced document that can be the basis of solidarity for peacekeeping in all countries of the world. I think all the leaders of the countries should support the DPCW.”
May the words, 'We are One!' ring true as a lasting history✌️