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One day of peace, a lifetime of action

It gives me great pleasure to communicate with you today on the world's day of peace, although a 24 hours of celebration but we are bearing the responsibility as peace workers to spread the message across the world all over the 365 days of the year.

“My experience of conflict is that those who are involved in it long for even a day of peace. To have a day of cessation of violence, that to me is an idea whose time has come.” In this short and clear words Mary Robinson, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, expressed herself in a filmed meeting with Jeremy Gilley.

Speaking about peace, human rights, non-violence education is becoming dull in a world that is experiencing 33 conflict zones including 12 major civil and cross-regional wars with more than 1000 deaths per day! But what does this is really mean for us? Does it mean to stop working for peace? Definitely not, On one hand, it rings a bell of a reminder on the significance of our work and its nobility and on the other hand, it rings a bell of the necessity of developing the strategy of working for peace and human rights.

Peace is not just a word to be said in a chat box or statement to be announced in a fizzy political speech and not even a book to be published by the most famous peace activist in the world, it is rather a spirit that we all need to experience within ourselves before we communicate it to others. It is as simple as it is written in five Latin characters but as important as water to our life's sustainability.

I am writing these words while I am in Alexandria, the Mediterranean city of Egypt, writing these words while watching the sea waves following each others in a very nice harmonic way and jumping up high like a happy child!!... How I wish to see the world is as harmonic as the sea waves.