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World Peace Award
WELCOME TO STOCKHOLM
SWEDEN
World Peace Award
AUGUST 23-27 2024
We endorse UN resolution to promote a Culture of Peace
World Peace Award
Conference and a culture festival
- Peace within us will lead to peace between us -
Theme: How to create a culture of peace
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Schedule World Peace Award Conference V
Friday August 23rd to Tuesday 27th 2024
Stockholm, Sweden
Welcome to the
5th World Peace Award Conference
This year we are again celebrating human fellowship and the search for peace. We invite everyone concerned about peace and human development. Today the world is facing many challenges. Despite our different interests and perspectives, solutions can only come when humans work together. For this, we need to share a common perspective and interests. We believe that central to this is the search for universally shared values. Your participation could contribute to this prospect.
We like to invite anyone and everyone regardless of their own political, social or religious views. If you are working in a field as an educator, researcher, human rights activist, religious organisation or an artist concerned about empowering people and wanting to strengthen democracy by countering violence and hatred you are welcome to share your vision and learn from others. This is a great opportunity to network and give hope to people by sharing your experiences and knowledge.
This year’s theme: Peace, Civil Society and the Environment
Peace is something which concerns us all. We would like to emphasize that is more than a political agenda, it’s a human agenda. We believe that peace has to begin to understand each other and willingness to learn from each other.
We would like to touch on three areas regarding the concept of peace and how to understand the UN Declaration of Culture of Peace. Also, we like to talk about the importance and responsibility of civil society to contribute to peace. This includes religion, youth, and social- as well as cultural groups that have an important role in contributing to human and society's development. The environment and climate are of great concern for us and affect us all. To save the planet humanity has also to work together and share the burden in solidarity with each other. But the environment also is something we humans together create within our society. The concept of peace has many features involving all aspects of human lives.
The importance of universally shared values
World Peace concerns all aspects of life. Even though the world is more integrated, there is also growing mistrust and division. Religion which has been the driving force in all civilizations has been increasingly marginalized in the modern world and accused of causing conflicts and wars. With or without religion, however, the conflicts continue. Within the political world, there is more polarization, increasing social confrontation, and growing nationalism.
The challenge is how to find a model for peace which transcends all religious, political, social, and national interests. Such a model can be found in the recognition of universally shared values. Through this religious people can engage in a new level of dialogue. Politicians can be guided by a higher level of responsibility. Social activists who seek to empower people, will not only oppose what is wrong but strive for constructive solutions. A healthy society is after all the ability to work together based on mutual trust and care. Indispensable to our national, ethnic, and religious identities we can retain our own unique characteristics and also recognize that we are part of one human family. For such dialogue to be successful we need to recognize the values that we all share. This is the focus of the conference: to explore universally shared values and how they can contribute to a world of peace and provide hope for the future of humankind.
Festival with culture and fellowship
Report from WPA 2019
Pramathin Boonthin Taosiri
Chairman of WPA committee
Information about our upcoming program
How to Have Peace
To have sustainable peace we have to have a deeper understanding of human nature as well as how society works. Peace is simply more than the “absence of war”. It includes many areas of society. We like to have an open mind and welcome broader discussions of all the issues. The issue of peace becomes easily very contested as we tend to point fingers at attackers. Even though in cases when it’s obvious it’s not always a practical solution. Peace simply requires cooperation and trust as well as transparent. Peace also requires the principle of justice and recognizing human liberties.
Even though the task may seem impossible, there is a need to address the issue from multiple perspectives. Finding common ground is one aspect sharing the same vision is another. It is also important to recognize that all other aspects of society as sustainable development, prosperity and security can be achieved with substantial peace. We believe the time has come for all human beings to share their view on how peace can be achieved in all aspects of life. World peace is not only to save the planet from unnecessary wars, but also to address social, and economic conflicts, conflicts between different religions, nationalities, conflicts between genders and in the family – yes also the conflict with us. It can be about seeking justice and freedom from an unhealthy lifestyle away from drugs or abusive relationships.
Peace is simply about striving for a better quality of life. By understanding more about it we can all achieve it.