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The Memorable Story of Peace Festival, Hwpl WARP Summit 2016
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"Peace Festival, hwpl WARP summit"
2nd Annual Commemoration of the WARP Summit
WARP 2016
Invitation Message
We cordiallyinvite you to the 2nd Annual Commemoration of September 18th World Alliance of Religions’ Peace (WARP) Summit.
For the cause of leaving peaceas a legacy for future generations, Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL) has worked towards the goal of cessation of war and world peace and actively been engaged in peace-building projects based on its main initiatives - endorsement of global legislation of peace through international cooperation, alliance of religions through interfaith dialogues, and spreading a culture of peace through youth and women’s worldwide activities.
This year, by courtesy of the international community with the widespread support from global leaders and citizens, HWPL is taking another great leap forward to realizing global peace. Former and incumbent heads of state, ministers and government officials, international lawexperts, religious leaders, the media, as well as representatives from civil society, academia, women and youth organizations will participate in the summit to discuss settling the environment of peace, transcendingdifferences in nationality, ethnicity, religion, and culture.
Peace is the timeless, invaluable asset for the humanity that must be transmitted to the future generations. We are delighted to welcome you to the 2nd Annual Commemoration of September 18th WARP Summit. Your presence and support will make the event more meaningful.
The entire world is watching Peace Festival, hwpl WARP Summit 2016 on live
Grassroots of WARP 2016,
Touching moment of WorldPeace Festival
WARP 2016
2nd Annual Commemoration of the WARP Summit
The World as One through
Peace Festival
by HWPL
How can it be an moment of history?
It can be by
Grassroots of WARP 2016,
Man Hee Lee
The Chairman of HWPL
and
There are two wings of HWPL, IWPG and IPYG
Today, I tell you the story about
HWPL, IWPG and IPYG
forPeace Festival,
WARP 2016
Chairman of HWPL
The world of peace people have dreamed of began to find its shape by one person with his can-do spirit.
Two Wings of HWPL – IWPG and IPYG
The International Women’s Peace Group (IWPG) and the International Peace Youth Group (IPYG) cooperate with HWPL for the same goal – peace. Women and youth in the global community work together and raise their voice of peace.
Number of World Peace Tours leading up to WARP 2016
From July 2012 to July 2016, HWPLPeace Ambassadors have travelled over 73 countries in a total of 24 world peace tours leading up to WARP 2016.
Number of signed peace agreements leading up to WARP 2016 (Agreement to propose the enactment of international law, Unity of religion agreement)
Over 5,000 peace agreements were signed during WARP 2014 and world peace tours combined. Signing ceremony for the cessation of war served as foundation of the 2nd Annual Commemoration of September 18th WARP Summit.
All the participants who signed the peace agreements called heaven and earth as witnesses, and pledged to become messengers of peace under the Creator, in front of people of all nations.
Number of HWPL badges provided to the global community More than 10,000HWPL badges have been provided to the global peace community since October 2013.
Every individual committed to join the work of peace by HWPL wears the HWPL badge. As a symbol of global partnership forpeace, HWPL badgesbecome must-have items for members of HWPL during the world peace tour.
Number of participants supporting the core initiative of WARP 2016 – Legislate Peace Campaign
Until July 24th 2016, 536,873 peoplefrom 168 countries have signed their signatures ofsupport for theLegislate Peace Campaign. This will be a significant turning point that contributes to legislation of peace and anti-war mechanism.
This campaign which aims to urge for development of the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of Law (DPCW) into an enforceable law is actively carried out around the world since the proclamation of the Declaration.
Be Together with
Touching moment of
WARP 2016
2nd Annual Commemoration of the WARP Summit
A year after Aylan Kurdi's tragic death,
what we need is peacenot war
A police officer carries the lifeless body of Alan Kurdi, who was found lying face-down on a beach near the Turkish resort of Bodrum. Photograph: AP
Toddler’s death opened European hearts and policy towards refugees, but 12 months on those changes have proved temporary
Do you remember 'Aylan Kurdi'?
It is nearly a year since...
It was so sad story...
Why did he die?
Today,
The news said,
there was a chain of terror
in Kabul, Afghanistan.
people died again...
Religions say
"Peace"
but
Where is the peace?
What we need ispeace not war...
Sitting in a refugee camp in northern Greece, Mohammad Mohammad, a Syrian taxi driver, holds up a picture of three-year-old Alan Kurdi. It is nearly a year since the same photograph of the dead toddler sparked a wave of outrage across Europe, and heightened calls for the west to do more for refugees. Twelve months later, Mohammad uses it to highlight how little has changed.
Alan may have died at sea, he says,
“but really there is no difference between him and the thousands of children now dying [metaphorically] here in Greece”.
Tens of thousands have been stranded in squalid conditions in Greece since March, when Balkan leaders shut their borders.
“It is,” says Mohammad, “a human disaster.”
A huge graffiti artwork of Alan Kurdi by German artists Justus Becker and Oguz Sen on the banks of Main river near European Central Bank HQ in Frankfurt. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters
A year ago, Alan’s tragic death seemed to have shifted the political discourse on refugees. European leaders appeared to have been shocked into forming more compassionate policies, while previously hostile media outlets took a more conciliatory tone.
Two days after Alan’s death, Germany agreed to admit thousands of refugees who had been stranded in Hungary. The move encouraged the leaders of central and eastern Europe to create a humanitarian corridor from northern Greece to southern Bavaria, while Canada promised to resettle 25,000 Syrians.
In the UK David Cameron agreed to accept 4,000 refugees a year until 2020. It was less than the number landing each day on the Greek islands at that point, but far more than Cameron had previously dared to offer. He was cheered on by the Sun, whose opinion pages had previously described migrants as cockroaches, but now mounted a front-page campaign in Kurdi’s name: “For Aylan [sic]”.
More significantly, it was in the aftermath of Alan’s death that most European leaders finally promised to share responsibility for at least some of the refugees landing on Greek and Italian shores.
In late September 2015, they created a system that would nominally see 120,000 refugees relocated from Greece and Italy to other European countries – a relatively modest number that was nevertheless hailed as a watershed moment for European migration policy.
“The principle is so important and reflects such a change of thinking that in itself this is a very significant development,”
an optimistic Peter Sutherland, the UN’s special representative for international migration, told the Guardian on the night of the decision.
Afghan refugees swim ashore as their dinghy with a broken engine drifts off the Greek island of Lesbos during a crossing of the Aegean Sea from Turkey.
But a year later, these small shifts in policy and discourse have proved to be temporary.
In September 2015, just four countries voted against the relocation deal, and only one of them – Hungary – lay on the path of the Balkans migration trail. When Hungary shut its border on 15 September, Croatia and Slovenia simply picked up the slack, allowing hundreds of thousands of migrants to cross their territory instead. That month, Donald Tusk, the European council president, stood next to Viktor Orbán, the Hungarian prime minister, and said that he fundamentally disagreed with Orbán’s vision of Christianity.
But on the anniversary of Alan’s death, Hungary believes it has all but won the argument on European migration policy.
“Most of the countries have come to the same conclusions that we came to last year,” says Zoltan Kovacs,
the Hungarian government spokesman.
“They didn’t see it as we saw it last year, and there are still people in Brussels who don’t. But common sense has prevailed.”
The front pages of six British national newspapers featuring the picture of Alan Kurdi. Photograph: PA Wire/PA
With rightwing populists on the rise across the continent, and a perceived connection between migration and terrorism, Europe has gradually abandoned the humanitarian approach of last winter. Austria, which was once a key German ally on migration policy, now wants an Australian-style approach that could see Greece formally used as a giant holding bay for asylum seekers, just as Canberra controversially uses the island state of Nauru to detain people trying to reach Australia. Even Sweden, which previously gave Syrians indefinite asylum, has reined in its generosity.
The Balkan humanitarian corridor has shut: Tusk was the man who declared it closed. The relocation scheme has proved dysfunctional: the rest of Europe has accepted just 5,142 people from Greece, instead of the 66,400 promised. And if the EU had its way, most of the few people still arriving on the Greek islands – the weekly numbers are now in the hundreds, rather than the tens of thousands – would now be deported back to Turkey under the EU-Turkey migration deal.
But with both deportations and relocations having stalled, 57,000 people are trapped in squalid conditions in Greece with no word on their future, prompting Syrians such as Mohammad to despair.
“In September, Orbán was the bad guy,” summarises Gerald Knaus, head of the European Stability Initiative, the thinktank that first floated the idea of the EU-Turkey deal.
“Yet by the end of the year he was the leader of a coalition of states. And with Austria now taking the lead on arguing for an Australian-style system, it’s now Germany that is isolated.”
Even the EU-Turkey deal is not, in practice, what Knaus envisaged when he proposed it in the fortnight that followed Alan’s death. As Knaus saw it, the deportation of refugees back to Turkey can be justified if their cases are assessed swiftly and efficiently in Greece; if Turkey improves its asylum system; and if Europe creates the legal means of mass-resettlement from Turkey. None of this, however, has happened.
The World Has Got its Eyes on the WARP Summit 2016 Not-to-be missed Event for International Press
The media plays a wide range of roles in our lives because it shapes what we see and hear every day. By covering diverse news and issues on what is happening in the world in recent times, the media creates and amplifies the need of a sustainable global peace and security and has the potential to play a significant role in peace-building processes. Particularly, the media’s impact upon the policymaking process and promoting peace shapes how to prevent conflict and enlightens world leaders and citizensto act for peace.
The 2nd Annual Commemoration of September 18th World Alliance of Religions’ Peace (WARP) Summit is a “must cover” event for international press to provide people with diverse aspects of the Summit and build a foundation for open communication between governments, IGOs, and civil societies on advocating for the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW).(Find more about DPCW, peacelaw.org)
With the theme of the advocacy of the legislation of peace, WARP Summit 2016 will address strategies and action plans to develop an enforceable law compatible with the DPCW and initiate a global change process aiming to move from conflict to peace.
Journalists and reporters of local and international press will catch the professional, inspiring, and dynamic scenes of the three-day event.
On September 17th, marking the start of the Summit, heads of state and representatives of various fields will participate in intensive and interactive sessions and forums simultaneously.
Global speakers will deliver keynote speeches to encourage alliances, connections and support peace networks among the summit participants and a global community.
HWPL is actively working towards the goal of holding the media accountable for accurate reporting standards. This year’s Media Forum will specifically discuss the plan of actions for the press through publicizing various media productions and utilizing resources to strengthen the advocacy movement of the DPCW in their respective countries.
The gigantic outdoor Peace and Sports Festival held on the second day of the Summit is based on the idea of arts and sports-based approach to peace and transformation of violence. The festival provides a cohesive platform to gather all people yearning for peace through the culture of heaven, transcending nationality, religion, and ideology and building bridgesbetween individuals and communities.
This innovative approach to peace involves visual arts, sporting events, music performance, and card stunt for the positive transformation of international and societal conflict, creating opportunities for building bridges across differences and advancing a world free from conflict.
By engaging with and stimulating such entertaining tools, the use of arts and sports at the Peace and Sport Festival at the Summit is an integral part of peacebuildingto ignite the flame of peace in the hearts of many.
The last dayof the Summit will summarize the entire events and share practical action plans based on common ground of understanding and practicality of the DPCW. Over 1,000 participantswill gather at the same venue to determine their resolution in supporting the DPCW and once againreaffirm their solidarity in bringing forth peace.
For the cause of leaving peace as a legacy for future generations, HWPL aims to take another great leap forward for peace this year through endorsement of globallegislation of peace with cooperation from all sectors of society and alliance of religions through interfaith peace dialogues.
As active peace advocates, media takes a great part in urging the DPCW by delivering the news of its development process so that everyone can take it for granted and it can be effectively implemented worldwide to greet the new era of peace.
The 2nd Annual Commemoration of September18th WARP Summit
will serve as a pathway towards peace, providing an opportunity for the world to witness the momentous act in the history of peace.
Flame of peace burning, World Alliance of Religions’ Peace (WARP) Summit
Have you ever heard the story about
World Alliance of Religions’ Peace (WARP) Summit?
Here the story is!
Hadn in Hand
We Can Make This World A Better Place to Live
Do you remember this story?
Inspired by the story of a man who ran to deliver the news of peace that revealed cessation of hostilities in the ancient Greeks, the global community put efforts to rejuvenate the spirit of peace through a world sporting event every 4 years to think of our world as one village with the principles of coexistence and sense of togetherness.
With the hope of global citizens to have a peaceful world in the face of ideological confrontation and greater possibility of military conflict during the Cold War era, the 1988 Seoul Olympics was the very moment for the globe hoping for restoration of a peaceful environment by all states transcending barriers that hinder cooperation.
At the Olympics, the global community witnessed that the spirit of peace can overcome the pressure of force through diverse worldwide peace advocacy movements and the walls started to be broken down in our reality.
Two dozen years after the Seoul Olympics,
the flame of hope with shouts of peace re-appeared at the same platform of the stadium at the World Alliance of Religions’ Peace (WARP) Summit in 2014.
The global community was holding hands together, singing songs desiring for peace, and promised to work together, putting differences and barriers aside.
Through interactive conferences and peace & sports festival on demonstrating practical approaches to creating social conditions conducive to peace in our times,
the WARP Summit 2016 will once again strengthenour solidarity in peacebuilding.
Flame of peace burning in the hearts of various people around the world.
Let us be together for peace!
Did you watch the movie 'Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noël)'?
Do you like movies?
Today, I introduce one movie
'Merry Christmas (Joyeux Noël)'
It is the one of the famous movies of anti-war.
Directed by Christian Carlon An extraordinary film
about a miraculous occurrence
during Christmas in World War I
when men laid down their arms and fraternized with the enemy.
Merry Christmas (France) - 78th Academy Awards - Best Foreign Movie Nominee [2006] - Trailer
Synopsis
The year is 1914, and as World War I continues to rage across the European countryside, four individuals stuck on the front lines find themselves faced with the unthinkable in director Christian Carion's Academy Award-nominated account of the true-life wartime event that would offer hope for peace in mankind's darkest hour.
When the war machines began rolling in the summer of 1914, the devastation that it waged upon German, British, and French troops was palpable. As the winter winds began to blow and the soldiers sat huddled in their trenches awaiting the generous Christmas care packages sent by the families, the sounds of warfare took a momentary backseat to the yearning for brotherhood among all of mankind. It is here that the fate of a French lieutenant, a Scottish priest, a German tenor, and a Danish soprano's lives were about to be changed forever.
On ChristmasEve of that year, the lonely souls of the front lines abandoned their arms to reach out to their enemies on the battlefield and greet them with not anger or hostility, but with the simple, kindly gesture of a much needed cigarette or a treasured piece of chocolate, and to put their differences aside long enough to wish their brothers a sincere "Merry Christmas!" ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
In 1914 Scottish brothers William (Robin Laing) and Jonathan (Steven Robertson) excitedly enlist to fight in World War I; they are looking forward to what they regard as an adventure. Palmer (Gary Lewis), their Anglican minister, goes to the front with them as a stretcher-bearer. In Berlin, Germany, a military official interrupts a performance at the opera house to announce that the country is at war. Tenor Nikolaus Sprink (Benno Furmann; songs performed by Rolando Villazon) is drafted; his lover, Anna Sorensen (Diane Kruger; songs performed by Rolando Villazon), a famous soprano, knows that their lives will never be the same again.
Meanwhile, French Lieutenant Audebert (Guillaume Canet) prepares to leave for the front lines without knowing whether his wife, left in German territory, has given birth to their child.
None of these men is prepared for the senseless barbarity of what is to come. Audebert's French troops and a Scottish regiment led by Gordon (Alex Ferns) live in muddy trenches just a few yards from the German lines commanded by Horstmayer (Daniel Bruhl). Many of them die in a senseless charge toward the Germans, who use machine guns to mow them down. A Scottish soldier tries to carry his wounded brother to safety but has to leave him to die in the no-man's land between the trenches.
As Christmas nears, the German command sends Christmas trees with lights and tinsel to their troops. The Scottish and French troops receive packages with liquor and trinkets. Anna Sorensen, the opera singer, uses her beauty and charm to get Sprink brought from the front to join her for a concert at German headquarters.
Afterwards, he convinces her to return with him to the trenches to sing to his comrades.
Meanwhile, on the French and Scottish side, Palmer tries to lift the men's spirits with a rendition of "Dreaming of Home" played on the bagpipes.
In the German trenches, with Anna standing by him, Sprink sings "Silent Night." He follows this classic with "O Come All Ye Fatihful," and Palmer joins him with bagpipe accompaniment. The tenor then grabs a Christmas tree and while singing walks toward the enemy.
No shots are fired, and soon the men from Scotland, France, and Germany have laid down their arms and are feeling the Christmas spirit of sharing and joy.
While the commanders drink champagne together, others show pictures of their wives and children and share treats from home, including chocolate. Palmer gathers them for a mass, and Anna sings "Ave Maria."
It is a moment of true communion and beauty.
"How true; it is the soldiers on the ground who most want peace.
This movie reverberates in our hearts as we realize that these messages are relevant to present-day situations."
This scene is unbelievable. Benno Furmann pulls it off with great emotion.
One of the things that make this scene so incredible is the intensity of the fighting and shelling that was going on only hours before.
And now, suddenly, peace. And not just peace, but camaraderie. For the rest of the night, and into the following day, the men share food and drink, games, letters and even Mass.
They also bury their dead. They even share their trenches when the shelling starts back up, to protect each other from their own armies' attacks.
"We were talking about a cease fire, for Christmas Eve. What do you think? The outcome of this war wont be decided tonight. I don't think anyone would criticize us for laying down our rifles on Christmas Eve."
