The Memorable Story of Peace Festival, Hwpl WARP Summit 2016
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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.
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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.
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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.
Longing for peace in Yemen with HWPL,IPYG,and IWPG
There was ‘Legislate Peace Campaign’ to support the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War(DPCW) proclaimed by Heavenly Culture World Peace restoration of Light(HWPL) in 2 major cities in Yemen in the first half of 2016.
International Peace Youth Group(IPYG) and International Women’s Peace Group(IWPG) took charge of International Law Peace Committee. The youth and women got 3908 signatures only in Yemen.
57 youth voluntarily went out and had Legislate Peace Campaign to make the DPCW a legally binding instrument last May in Taiz, the second biggest city in Yemen. They got 1608 signatures.
After this event Ghazwa Saeed Al-Absi, the founder of Yemeni youth organization named Engaging Youth for Peace(EYP) and International Law Peace Committee member, said,
“we will fight for peace with our last breath.” 32 women, including Arfat shraf, the head of human rights and relief team of Al Agatha put their signatures in HWPL international law workshop held in Ibb, the city famous for its beautiful landscape.
They said,
“Legislate Peace Campaign will be actively run to protect Yemeni youth as mothers who protect their children from wars and create peace.”
‘Legislate Peace Campaign’which HWPL is focusing on is the international peace signature campaign for the cessation of war. After proclaiming the DPCW the youth and women from all over the world initiated International Law Peace Committee and brought participation from various sectors for a short time. There is much attention to peace achievements made by Yemeni women and youth who proclaim peace in spite of a difficult situation.
In my thinking..
I was so impressed when I read this article. I heard the news about terror in Turkey lately, and How sad.....! there were terrors much, I think It is not a personal thing..
As I am an woman, I totally agree with Yemeni woman and youth with HWPL, IPYG, and IWPG :)
I love their mind and saying!!
It is time to make the peace around us. I hope you guys reading my page make it together :D
