Worldwide Campaigns To Spread A Culture Of Peace And Enact An International Law
In May at over 100 cities in 50 countries, worldwide peace campaigns named ‘5th Annual Commemoration of the Declaration of World Peace’, have been carried out to advocate peace-building led by grassroots such as youth, citizens, civic groups, and media. The Declaration of World Peace was announced in 2013 by an international peace NGO affiliated with UN ECOSOC, Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL) to call for all members of society to work together as peace messengers. In South Korea that had the recent inter-Korean summit breaking a decade of the turbulent period of tension, the event with the theme of 'Realizing Peace on the Korean Peninsula' was held simultaneously in 12 cities on May 25, when the declaration was announced. It aimed to seek ways to interact freely with North and South, based on the citizen-centered peace activities, and to encourage citizens to take an active role in the progress in peace-building on the Korean peninsula. ...
