The United Nations Peace and Positive Living Awareness Centre under the United Nations Economic and Social Council has commemorated the 2024 World Peace Day in grand style.
The event held at the Professor Dora Akunyili Women’s Development Center in Awka was in collaboration with the Institute for Peace, Security and Development Studies, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka centred on the theme for the day: “Cultivating A Culture of Peace; The Imperatives in Our Contemporary Society”.
In a welcome address, the International Coordinator of United Nations Peace and Positive Living Awareness Centre, Bishop Ozioma Ozoemena emphasized that conflict begins in the mind of man and so also peace must be constructed in a man’s heart.
Bishop Ozoemena decried the level of insecurity and institutional failure in the country and commended Governor Chukwuma Soludo for signing into Law the Anambra State Peace Building and Conflict Management Agency Law 2024 describing it as a game changer in achieving lasting peace in the state.
Professor Jaja Nwanegbo of Political Science Department, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, in his lecture on the theme of the event, opined that a culture of peace can be built in an individual through positive values and attitudes, emphasizing that peace must always be sort at all times for a better world, starting from the individual.
Professor Echezona Ifejirika of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University and Mr. Ikechukwu Odide a United Nations Peace and Positive Living Awareness Centre Award Recipient, noted that people should be forgiving as a way to achieve peace while suggesting setting up of a body of select people, to be charged with the responsibility of settling conflicts amongst communities and individuals for a peaceful society.
Clergymen who attended the event, Right Reverend Kenneth Azoh and Pastor Japhet Kufre also a United Nations Peace and Positive Living Awareness Center award recipient maintained that true peace comes from God and only those who know God truly, can harvest peace from themselves to others.
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