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Meaning of Peace

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UPEACE helped me to achieve what I always inspired for!

UPEACE NEWSFLASH August 2012
Link http://www.upeace.org/news/newsflash/2012/august_2012.pdf

by Shahbaz Israr Khan (Pakistan) | Gender and Peace Building Alumnus (2012)


Since my childhood I used to dream of a world where everyone could live in peace, love and harmony with no discrimination at all. My wish for a peaceful world was further strengthened when I lost one of my best friends in a bomb blast. I still remember his smile and his bright eyes. Soon, I left my profession and adopted my passion, the passion for a peaceful world. Before coming to UPEACE, my concept of peace was vague.

UPEACE provided me with an opportunity to interact with students of so many countries, to know their cultures, opinions and smiles, and to learn from the best faculty of the world. We all used to be very critical, and everyone used to give opinion. One thing I learnt from UPEACE is to respect everyone ideas and opinions.

At UPEACE I volunteered for one of the best program and communication officers of the world. I assisted UPEACE in developing proposals, in doing research and developing programs. UPEACErs form the best family where you learn, enjoy and form international relations that are life lasting and contribute both to local and international peace. Most importantly, my gender session made me realized that we should seek to eliminate existing discrimination within social systems. It also allowed me to question the dichotomies of our life and to realize the concept of subjectivity. While trying to find the meaning of peace, we should always ask the question: peace for whom? UPEACE has equipped me with gender transformative skills by which I can identify various gender discriminations in the society and at the same time work for change.

One of the main things I learnt from UPEACE was to understand that there is no one perception, there is no one truth and there is no one reality. We live in a multicultural world, where different people have different perceptions and thus our reality and understanding of the word “peace” will be different from person to person and from culture to culture. So, we need to find unity in diversity and to struggle for a world that respects, understands and give rights to everyone without any discrimination.


:) Thank you UPEACE :)




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