HWPL discuss the importance of education for world peace

HWPL discuss the importance of education for world peace

 HWPL Chairman ManHee Lee discuss the importance of education in establishing world peace.

At this ceremony when the Mar Elias Educational Institution in Israel has become the first Peace Academy of Heavenly Culture World Peace Restoration of Light (HWPL), Chairman emphasized, " Peace is somthing that blossoms from the hearts of each individual and can be achieved through the changes of perception from proper education."
He also said, "Peace, when children get closely acquainted with the term above any other through school curricula, the world where every individual can live peacefully will be fulfilled puicker than ever before."


On December 2, 2015, the institutions were designated, for the first time in history, as the Peace Academies of HWPL. A three time Nobel Peace Prize nominee and former Archbishop of the Mekite Catholic Church, Father Elias Chacour is a founder and principal of the schools of the Mar Elias Educational Institutions(MEEI) established in Ibillin, an  Arab town in the Northern District of Israel.

 Chacour, an active Publicity Ambassador of HWPL, has cooperated to establish the World Alliance of Religions' Peace (WARP) office in Israel and united the MEEI high school students with HWPL's youth diveision, International Peace Youth Groutp(IWPG), the press release indicaed.
The MEEI consists of students and faculy from variousfaiths such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Duze heritage

 Fr. Chacour has put forth his effort to build schools to educate children of all ethnic and religious backgrounds in the ways of peace, reconcillation, respect, and justice, it stated his commendable efforts to promote peace aong youths have led to the honorable recogniion of MEEI becoming the first HWPL Peace Academy.

The establishment of the HWPL Peace Institute through the MEEI in Israel will serve as a comprehensive program which provides and educational framework on interfaith conflict analysis and resolution, interfaith peace dialogue sessions and alliance of religions through the World Alliance of Religions Peace (WARP) Office.

HWPL will work to design program and courses to enhance the peacemaking capacities of individuals and organizations from various faiths through the WARP office events and will highlight HWPL's most recent peacemaking effort.

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