The Story that HWPL Peace Messengers Achieve Peace: Peace Education

Many peace messengers from all over the world attended the “7th Anniversary of the September 18th HWPL World Peace Summit” held online last month. HWPL asked some common questions to the attendees for the future activities. Many answered with all their heart, and HWPL would like to share some of them.

Meet the stories of the peace messengers who are achieving peace with HWPL in their respective fields such as peace international law, alliance of religions, peace education, and the IPYG!

▲ Bartholomew Lumbasi Wanikina, Kenya Ministry of Education, Deputy Director of Education(Left), MELY S. MOJICA, Federation of Christian Schools Cavite Philippines School Victorious Christian Montessori, President (Principal)

Q1. How has HWPL peace activities influenced you?

Bartholomew Lumbasi Wanikina, Kenya Ministry of Education, Deputy Director of Education
I started working on HWPL's peace education in Kenya for peace. I was able to realize how big a move and a good impact they have by participating in offline events and webinars, discussing and planning peace projects. I was also able to learn the passionate attitude and aspirations of doing peace works because of a role model for peace, chairman Lee. I have learned how to practice true sacrifices and have courage for peace, so I will continue to take the lead in calling for peace and promoting it worldwide.

MELY S. MOJICA, Federation of Christian Schools Cavite Philippines School Victorious Christian Montessori, President (Principal)
Of course this is not just an influence but I make use of my eyes to witness how the activities are held. So seeing the activities presented, what enters my mind and even my heart is I'm going to participate and confidently absolutely confident and also I will be surpassing all the activities I have seen with God's help. That's why I have thought of so many projects and activities and programs which I told you earlier that every activity that we hold in the school will be submitted to the office of Mam Alecka for confirmation if it's correct or if it's not correct or to be improved more and it has to be repeated. Actually, it's the word peace that attracted and struck my heart why I have decided at first to myself to join the peace education task. And world peace also is the one who pushed me to discuss it with my department heads and coordinators and even the people around me in the community.

I like peace to be injected to everybody's heart and everybody's mind because if there is peace there will be less trouble, less misunderstanding and less everything, less covetousness, less stealing, less drug addiction because peace is something that will teach them on how to have a different lifestyle. Not just the lifestyle that they have now but it is peace that will continuously teach them on how to live in accordance with that expectation and also the expectation of HWPL which is the job of my administration with my pictures with my department heads to disseminate this idea of peace to our students to our parents and everybody even in the school and other school members school and FCS.

Q2. Like the theme of the 7th Anniversary of the September 18 HWPL World Peace Summit, joint efforts are urgently needed for sustainable peace. In times like this, what do you think is the 'common effort' for sustainable peace? Also, what would your plans be for sustainable peace with HWPL?

Bartholomew Lumbasi Wanikina, Kenya Ministry of Education, Deputy Director of Education
I believe that sustainable peace, as stated in the provisions of the DPCW, is to achieve peace in the spirit of peace by the leaders of each country, leaders of all walks of life, and civil society in order to achieve permanent peace.

I was appointed as the official peace educator of HWPL starting from this event. Currently, as the deputy director of education policy at the Kenya Ministry of Education, I am trying to establish a plan to promote the special zone for peace education while discussing the signing of an MOU for HWPL peace education to participate in the work of peace. As a true peace educator, I will become a messenger of peace that takes precedence in practice to carry all these things out sequentially.

MELY S. MOJICA, Federation of Christian Schools Cavite Philippines School Victorious Christian Montessori, President (Principal)
Concerted action is not actually hard to answer why because the song itself We Are One at the center of that song you will find out all together we have to work as one. And so concerted means the collective effort of every peace lovers to to join without reluctancy, without any hesitation but full support should be given. We have to move one hand and hand in order that the advocacies of HWPL will be totally hours.

As I told you, we have included that in our school, peace education in our school activities, or school calendar, rather, which we have submitted to the Division Office of Cavite, even reaching the Regional Office of the Department of Education. And so at this point, I would like to mention the willingness of our private school area supervisor, Dr. Diane Topacio; she will be given the opportunity to go over the activities and how we succeeded in the first month of implementation, or first quarter, rather, of the implementation.

At first, it was experimental, and at the same time, that experiment was coupled with observations of how the teachers will teach, how the students will accept the teaching, how the teachers understand peace, and how the students will understand peace. It is very useful at home, it is very useful in school, and it is very useful among the friends they mingle with. So then, I did not hesitate anymore to pursue all the programs that we are planning under peace education.

We are still preparing, however we were able to prepare the following, more activities carefully and collectively planned with proper prioritization. To match every activity in the Department of Education calendar with the school, it is a trial. The HWPL activity, DEPED (Department of Education) activity, and the school activity – every month, we will always be observing peace education so that we can see the total progress, the acceptance, and obedience of the participating families of the school towards peace education.