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[HWPL] HWPL's Peace Education Conference in the Philippines!

Chairman ManHee Lee is the head representative of the global peace organization HWPL (Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light), which is striving for the enactment and implementation of the international peace law 'Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (DPCW)'. The  DPCW is a legal instrument comprised of 10 articles and 38 clauses that can end wars and hostilities throughout the world. HWPL is also spreading a culture of peace and implementing peace education.

Chairman ManHee Lee experienced the cruelty and tragedy of war as a veteran of the Korean War. This is one of the reasons why he founded a global peace campaign as the head of HWPL. He has traveled the globe more than 35 times to meet and persuade politicians, legal experts, journalists, professors, peace activists, civil organization leaders, heads of tribes and others to unite them for the work of peace. The significant fruits borne out of his hard work are the World Alliance of Religions' Peace (WARP) Summit and HWPL Peace Committee. The DPCW was drafted and finalised by the HWPL Peace Committee.

How, you may wonder, do I know this? About 10 years ago, when I had just been discharged from military service, I came to know HWPL and Chairman ManHee Lee while researching the topic of civil conflicts to satisfy my curiosity in ongoing global issues. At that time, the island of Mindanao in the Philippines was suffering from a major civil conflict that lasted more than 40 years, and Chairman ManHee Lee and HWPL resolved this conflict through non-violent means.

Chairman Lee brought an end to the conflict in Mindanao by holding a peace talk between the warring Catholic and Islamic groups. Before the talk, HWPL and Chairman ManHee Lee held a Peace Walk to spread the culture of peace in Mindanao with the many locals who had gathered out of a desire for peace.

Chairman ManHee Lee's pressing appeal today is that humanity unites for sustainable peace in order to pass on the legacy of peace to future generations worldwide. He doesn't just talk peace, but has worked tirelessly for it through practical peace campaigns for over a decade.

I decided to become a supporter of HWPL and Chairman ManHee Lee's peace initiatives because I also desire a world of peace for all posterity.

Today I'd like to introduce an article regarding HWPL's Peace Education conference in the Philippines :)

1st Bangsamoro Peace Education Conference

Last May, in order to implement HWPL Peace Education throughout the Philippines, the HWPL Philippine branch announced peace education textbooks for the provinces of Southern Leyte and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, including Laguna Province. This aims to establish a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Philippine Department of Education and implement peace education on a national level.

▲ Cover page of contextualized HWPL Peace Education 12 Lesson Exemplars from the Schools Division Office of Laguna Province

Earlier, the Department of Education in Southern Leyte compiled localized HWPL peace education textbooks and conducted pilot classes for this purpose. This initiative was inspired by the localized peace textbooks for Bangsamoro, which were announced at the Bangsamoro Peace Education Conference held last January.

On January 29 of this year, the “1st Bangsamoro Peace Education Conference” was held at the Shariff Kabunsuan Cultural Complex in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Muslim Region in Mindanao, Philippines, co-hosted by the Department of Education in Cotabato City and HWPL. During the conference, localized HWPL peace education textbooks, incorporating Islamic values, were introduced. The presentation demonstrated the potential for integrating HWPL peace education into moral and social subjects and showcased effective methods for implementing textbooks across all grades, from Grade 1 in elementary school to Grade 12 in high school, through demo classes.

▲ Division workshop on the Contextualization of HWPL Peace Education 12 Lessons in the Schools division office of Southern Leyte, Schools Division Office of Southern Leyte

The Peace Education Conference was attended by a total of 668 participants, including five high-ranking government officials such as the Minister of Basic, Higher, and Technical Education of Bangsamoro, 50 principals of elementary, middle, and high schools under the Department of Education in Cotabato City, and approximately 613 faculty members.

In January 2020, HWPL Philippines signed a MOA with the Schools Division Office of Cotabato City and conducted the “HWPL Peace Education Contextualization Workshop in Mindanao.” However, the initiative was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The peace education initiative resumed when officials from Cotabato City participated in HWPL’s 9th Anniversary of the World Peace Summit on September 18, 2023.

▲ Assistant Secretary of the Department of Education in the Philippines, Dexter A. Galban / Schools Division Office of the Sub-Office in Laguna-Pila District

Upon resuming the project, the Schools Division Office of Cotabato City, with active support from the local government in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region and the Office of the Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation, and Unity, began compiling the HWPL Peace Education textbook, which includes 12 lessons for students from 1st grade of elementary school to 3rd year of high school. Fifty-two teachers participated in the textbook compilation and conducted three contextualization workshops. The completed textbook resulted in 211 instructional materials, which were presented at the conference.

In the future, the Ministry of Basic, Higher, and Technical Education (MBHTE) will validate the textbook and, upon completion, distribute it to approximately 4,000 schools, providing peace education to around 1.26 million students in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region.

Interested in HWPL's peace work for the world? Please visit following link :)

HWPL Official Homepage

https://www.hwpl.kr/language/en/home-hwpl-_en/