News after UNYS attends HWPL World Peace Summit
※ UNYS: UN Youth Seychelles
On Saturday the 18th September 2021, HWPL’s 7th anniversary of the World Peace summit took place online with about 1000 people on a zoom meeting in attendance. Members of UN Youth Seychelles Ms Steffie-Ann Monthy and Ms Annarose Clarisse were able to participate in this annual event marking a very historic day.
The online summit began by marking why HWPL was initiated with the motive of global peace and cessation of war. Since the founding of the organisation, they have indulged in numerous global efforts with this motive including creating international laws of peace, alliance of religions, women and youth empowerment, legislate peace campaigns, several peace walks and most importantly peace education to the youth. The statistics are astonishing in the amount of global leaders, office bearers and lecturers that have been appointed in communicating these ideas around in several countries globally.
The event also explained the ways in which global peace was still advocated world wide despite the global pandemic where most peace education has been transferred online, and online study groups can now study the international peace law as through the HWPL handbook commentary.
For me, the highlight of the event was learning specifically about the past cases that brought peace to people such as in Mindanao, Philippines, as well as active cases that they have completed this year. A particularly interesting one was the youth empowerment peace class (YEPC) which promoted young education rights to ensure youth education was still ensured despite the consequences of the global pandemic.
Overall the experience was inspiring to see how simple it is to send out messengers of peace to all corners of the world and see how much impact it can have, especially for the youth, so that the future of the world is humble hands. UN youth Seychelles would like to thank colleagues from IPYG for sharing this experience with us.
HWPL’s peace work is unprecedented. I sincerely hope it will continue with great vigour, 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.
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May the words, 'We are One!' ring true in 2021 and into 2022✌️