The Role of Women in the Implementation of the International Law on the Cessation of War and Achievement of World Peace

The Role of Women in the Implementation of the International Law on the Cessation of War and Achievement of World Peace

Over 500 Participants at the 2016 IWPG Network Peace Forum

The International Women’s Peace Group (IWPG) celebrated the new year hosting the   2016 IWPG Network Peace Forum and urging for the enactment of an international convention on the cessation of war and the achievement of world peace.

​Tilted The Role of Women in the Implementation of the International Law on the Cessation of War and Achievement of World Peace, the Forum was hosted on JAN 19 at the training institute of peace located in Gyeonggi Province, Korea and convened approximately 500 women leaders from Korea and other countries.

​The forum was the organization’s first forum of 2016. The theme of the forum highlighted the hearts of mothers  that protect the youth, urging the international community for a swift response to enact an international convention for peace, which is spearheaded by HWPL (Heavenly Light World Peace Restoration of Light).

​Against the backdrop of Nuclear testing of the DPRK and terrorism tearing through the world, support for such an international convention grew more active and broad. Participants of the Forum pledged that women of the world will monitor and urge the decision makers so that each government would take part in the international convention and put them into action once the draft of the international convention is completed. 

Nam Hee Kim's remark in her opening speech

Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz

     Some of you might know Käthe Kollwitz. She was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Her art work was eloquent and searing account of human condition and tragedy of war. She lost her son in a battle and spoke for all mothers who have lost their sons. She used her talents for standing against war, “Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius-and I count myself among these-have to restore the lost connection once more,” “It is my duty to voice the suffering of men, the never-ending sufferings heaped mountain high.” 

     At first, when I saw her piece of work and quotes, I thought she was one of the people who wants peace and end the war, but before that, she was a mother. One of her quote, “while I drew, and wept along with the terrified children I was drawing, I really felt the burden I am bearing. I felt that I have no right to withdraw from the responsibility of being an advocate,” touched my heart deeply. People who were fighting in a battlefield isn’t a president or politicians, it is father, brother, and son of ours.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4the_Kollwitz

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