The Great Work for Achieving Peace

Here is the summit which has been held annually since 2014. This is for providing a platform with leaders in politics, religion, youth and women’s groups, journalism, and civil society around the world, to discuss the ideas and practices required to achieve peace, a common goal of the global community.

In this current century,  the  UN's sustainable development goals set out key points for harmonious coexistence and development of the global community, including the economy, poverty eradication, education, welfare, equality and justice. The precondition for achieving this goal is the sustainable state of peace without war based on the complete cessation of violent conflicts such as hostile actions and wars throughout the international community. However, conflicts and actions of war between countries have not ceased, and the possibility of war is further increased by the spread of violent extremism by non-state actors based on religious and ethnic identity. Just as such, today's conflicts are becoming worsened by the everyday fears that can directly affect individuals, going beyond what affects one’s country.

Therefore, a comprehensive approach to prevention and solution is required to respond to violent forms of disputes, including wars that threaten the lives of mankind. This comprehensive approach is based on the participation of non-governmental organizations and individuals  ? as well as governments and intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) in this current international community where the response to disputes in non-political areas such as culture, religion,  ethnicity, economy, and the environment is required with the cooperation between various actors. This increases the possibility of establishing global peace as a new approach to respond to conflicts by transcending national boundaries with shared, common effort for peace from around the world.

The 2019 HWPL World Peace Summit: 5th Annual Commemoration of the September 18th WARP Summit is for this new approach. The host of this event is the 'Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL)' which is an NGO  associated with the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the UN Department of Global Communications and in Special Consultative Status with the UN ECOSOC. The organizers are the IPYG, an affiliated organization of HWPL, and the IWPG, a UN ECOSOC-affiliated NGO with Special Consultative Status.

The HWPL Peace Summit sets the source of power to create a world of peace to include every agent of action - from an individual to a country - to become a peace messenger. For the purpose as a core principle of world peace is the propagation of peace culture and the public support of peace as a global peace movement.

Through this summit which will be held over two days, from 18 to 19 September 2019, the great peace movement would spread to all over the world.