In 2014, HWPL Chairman Man Hee Lee went to Mindanao, the Philippines, and mediated a peace agreement between the representatives of the Catholic Church and Islam.
Religious conflict between the two had been one of the great causes of ongoing struggles in Mindanao.
In 2015, Mindanao Peace Agreement Monument was erected in Mindanao. And in 2017, the Commission on Higher Education of the Philippines signed an MOA on peace education with HWPL to teach university students a spirit of peace and train them as peace messengers. They have been making efforts for the implementation of peace education.
At this forum, the attendees sought specific ways to realize peace education in the Philippines. Dr. Ronald L. Adamat, the Commissioner of the Commission on Higher Education, delivered a speech saying, “We are preparing our students to be equipped with knowledge, skills, attitude, and values in conflict resolution and peace works. If values of peace such as unity, love, harmony, and understanding are embedded in them, then criminality will be minimized if not eradicated, corruption will stop, drug addiction will be addressed, and conflict resolution will be erased.” The Commission on Higher Education has approved to integrate peace studies into the recent education curriculum, and they are taking steps to ensure that peace education is implemented in each university.
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On 18 September 2020,
“HWPL Peace Education Development Forum”
was held in the Philippines. This forum was held online attended by Commission on Higher Education commissioners, superintendents, presidents, principals, teachers, and students as well as 375 teachers from Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Rwanda, and more. They could not gather in the same place due to the pandemic, but they had the same desperate and eager heart for peace. Particularly, this forum was meaningful in that people in educational circles from Mindanao, a region that has suffered from conflicts for many years, attended and presented specific implementation goals for peace education.
HWPL Peace Education Development Forum in the Philippines
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