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Youth change the world and London College of Engineering and Management (LCOEM) has organised and celebrated International day of peace with different activities in South East London on 21^st Sep 2008.

About International day of peace
The International Day of Peace ("Peace Day") provides an opportunity for individuals, organizations and nations to create practical acts of peace on a shared date. It was established by a United Nations resolution in 1981 to coincide with the opening of the General Assembly. The first Peace Day was celebrated on September 1982.

In 2002 the General Assembly officially declared September 21 as the permanent date for the International Day of Peace.

Inauguration of the event by 7 dynamic young celebrities

Life is beautiful because of the combination of variable colours that are in existence in the nature, specially seven colours we come across. Just like that there are so many people in our society who are devoted themselves to bring out joys in peoples life. So, we have selected 7 successful young personalities who will on the way to do some things great in the community and the world. They inaugurated the event lighting the candle together. We believe that these seven candles represent different sector of our social life.

Mr. Irfan Khan, gradute in development studies and youth leader in community development, was one of the celebraties. Currently, he is also a Board Member of International Young Profesional Foundation, Australia Base Youth lead and youth focused INGO working for MDGs around the world. He was one of the key leaders of International Young Professional Summit which was held in August 2008 with around 400 young people.

Mr. Manish Kumar Shrestha, a creative media personality with ideas to make the difference in the society; at the age of 16 who was successfully able to direct the drama and was the first person to start a video magazine in his own community. He is currently working as an online radio journalist and young entrepreneurs. He is also known as a social activist as he is constantly participating in different social campaigns and was successful in getting various awards.

Miss. Sona Shrestha A Peace Model, from fashion was another name of career. With fashion, personality can be nominated. It makes a first impression in society and that lasts longer like the saying “First impression is the last impression”. She is also associated with the travel and tourism sector and her representation in society is like a symbol of peace, personality and social activists.

Miss Mina Pathak, associated with Ryan Air, was also one of the young peace celebrities in the event. She is working as a bridge to connect people around via sky. As a part of her work she travels to many places around the world and works to encourage youth of the new generation to bring peace. Travelling many places has given her benefit of having knowledge in different culture and tradition which she utilizes to bring change in the society and the world. Specially, in Europe she works very closely with different charities that offer her social identity, she known as a peace Traveller as well.

Mr. Jonh Gautam, Generally, every people have great interest in Musical world but a long hair guy who use his musical creation for the peace in his very early age. He has not only going to release his own music album but he will do Peace music project very soon as well. He is known as a dedicated young Music Peace Ambassador.

Officially she is Canadian citizen but she considers herself to be from Hong Kong where she was born and grew up. Well, in our language of campaign she becomes a global citizen. She used to work on the advocacy programme at UNOY, a Netherlands base INGO and engaged in lobbying at the United Nations on the culture of peace. She is seeking her identity in International Law, Jessica van der Kamp, a Female Campaigner

At the age of 20, who find the ways towards the belief of enlighten in his life and the importance of meditation and yoga. He moved out of his house for many days just for meditation towards peace, satisfaction and belief of enlighten. He always desire to deliver the message of peace. Sawmi Jiban Subedi; a young spiritual celebrity

(Due to their pretty busy schedule, the later two social young celebrities couldn’t attend the whole program)

Welcome Speech by: Shakti Ghimire

As a participant in this "International peace day" program, we have our own commitment and passion for human rights, non-violence, protective diplomacy, peace-keeping, peace making, and post-conflict peace-building. Besides, we have our own dedication to the world we are going to leave behind for those who follow us.

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Meditation and YOGA for Peace - Swami Krishna

Meditation and peace are interconnecting with each others which help to develop long lasting peace. Dancing, singing, laughing, crying and many other natural activities of human body makes this meditation unique and helps to gain internal peace. We believe by exercising meditation we can minimize the violence and conflict. Participant involved for practical excises as well.

Yoga can be taken as a part of meditation as the word itself represents the world of health. Swami Krishna is not only the master of yoga but also a multi dimensional personality in the field of literature, music, painting, TV programme producer, business entrepreneurs, associated with Sunrise radio and so on.

Signature campaign for peace
A signature campaign is a documentation of people’s commitment towards the development of a culture of peace and non-violence in society around the world. We, young people have made a policy to collect the signatures to guarantee commitment for peace and pressure for those who are unable to protect the human rights.

In the white cloth, titled “Signatures towards Peace Society” People jot down their signature as an agreement to the title. We believe that this project will help the people to implement and amend the commitment for human rights and peace issues towards achieving and developing the culture of peace and non violence society.

Similarly, our objective to collect signature is to deal with government and other international community to make a policy for long lasting peace and to give priority to the youth agendas as well which is the most important factor for sustainable peace and overall community development.

The signature campaign was started by our Special Guest Mr. Gopal Sibakoti Chinton; a name is self organization for International law, human rights and peace.

Wall painting on peace
In the wall painting, you can draw the any types of image about peace, conflict and violence. Generally, people will reflect what they face due to the conflict and war. So, we request all participants to reflect your views; what you think and what the impact of conflict and violence is for you. Which started by Swami Krishan.

List of Speaker

Highlights of International day of Peace and YCW campaign activities:

Er. Bed .P. Bhattarai,
Executive Director of YCW and Renewable Energy expert, An academic personality who is a sustainable development and Renewable Energy expert and associated with various charities and educational Institutes in London. He was involved in an academic institute as a lecturer and worked as a Mechanical Engineer in the developing country in the field of Electricity Authority. His involvement in social sector is significant who have published lots of his articles in this issues as well.

Speaker : Mr Deepak Bhattarai,
A graduate from university of London in law, who practises mainly in human rights, Peace and conflict issues. He is also a social activist participating in social works and his contribution in social sector is noteworthy. He is a writer as well who has published different articles on human rights and current political issues.

Speaker: Mr. Shekhar Sharma, Principle – LCOEM
A FCCA degree holder and a young entrepreneur. He is a principle of the London College of Engineering and Management.

Chief Guest: Mr. Gopal Siwakoti Chintan

An advocate and specialist in international human rights, humanitarian and environmental law. He is a lecturer in human rights who graduated from American university and is also a Ph.D. candidate in faculty of law. He has also worked as a legal advisor in different organizations such as Gurkha Army ex-serviceman’s organization (GESO), Himalayan peninsular hydro-ecological network and is also author who has published books related to human right, peace and social Justice.

Cultural Activities:

It is well known that Television, newspaper, wall magazine, Drama and musical programmes are effective tools to aware people. Special for youth, Cultural and musical programme is best way to attract young people, propagation of information and make aware them about Human Rights, lasting Peace, Conflict Transformation and Reconciliation.

In this cultural and musical programme our Spicy Guests make aware people by their speech and discuss on advantages and disadvantages of the promotion of human rights and why a culture of peace and non-violence is considered necessary

Various artists performed different activities.





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Summarized Message for the event

United National Young Peace builders
A Netherlands base Youth INGO working for peace and Non violence around the world.

UNOY Peacebuilders would like to begin by wishing all participants and organisers well on the International Day of Peace. We have been celebrating the International Day of Peace for several years now and are in fact hosting our own events in Rotterdam on this very day. Our organisation is composed of 34 youth led organizations spread all across the globe who work tirelessly and always altruistically for the peacebuilding movement. The work of peacebuilding organizations is ever more challenging in an increasingly complex world which brings with it a greater number of adversities. To achieve objectives in this sort of environment means that creativity and innovation are of fundamental importance, and the peacebuilding organisations of UNOY Peacebuilders have shown themselves to be fully capable of adapting to this climate.

London has seen increasing media coverage of violent crime committed by youth over the last year, and it may sometimes be too easy for people to tarnish all youth with the same brush. The International Day of Peace can remind us all that youth and youth led organizations are instrumental in the peacebuilding movement. Youth can bring innovation and optimism in a line of work which may sometimes be difficult to remain sanguine.

Each year, more and more members and affiliates join in with the celebrations all over the world by hosting or participating in unique and culturally diverse events. This illustrates how the International Day of Peace is growing and that its impact is reaching the furthest and remotest corners of the globe each year. The desire for peace is innate in human nature and the International Day of Peace fully illustrates this. We would like to wish all the participants an inspiring day and hope that youth will continue to celebrate the day of peace and non-violence in the years to come.

UNOY