DIMAPUR, APRIL 30 (MExN): An Inter-school Peace Colloquium on Peace-Building and Peace Showcase was organized by the Peace Channel, Peren Chapter at St. Xavier Hr. Sec. School, Jalukie on April 29 with Peidoding Heraang, Headmaster, Christian School and RK Janthuiyang John, Project Coordinator, Peace Channel as the resource persons.
The event organized by Peace Channel, saw the participation of 6 peace club established schools in Jalukie, specifically, St. Xavier Hr. Sec School, Govt. Hr. Sec. School, Christian School, Ibaung Thou Memorial School, Ikiesing Memorial School and Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya Peren.
Speaking on the topic, “Peace and Peace-building in our society”, Peidoding Heraang stressed on the importance of Peace-building through moral purity. He projected the students and youths as a strong force in bringing about change in our broken society. He also acknowledged the founder of Peace Channel, Dr. Fr. CP Anto and encouraged the students to carry forward the legacy of what the founder has done, so that the younger generation lives in a better place and environment.
He also urged the students in building and spreading peace by being responsible students, resolving conflict in their own capacities and not turning a blind eye to the element leading to distortion in our society.
RK Janthuiyang John also spoke on the values to attain inner peace which consist of love, sacrifice, empathy, equality, discipline, generosity and justice. He said that one cannot give to others what one doesn’t have. Likewise, Peace cannot be given to the other persons unless we have it with ourselves. Thus, he added that in order to achieve universal peace, it should start from oneself which will slowly expand to the family, community, religion and the world at large.
Earlier, the welcome speech was delivered by Khenenle, teacher animator, SXHSS and Words on behalf of SXHSS was delivered by Fr. Salas Ngade, Vice Principal. A multimedia presentation on the Peace Channel was also showed and the vote of thanks was pronounced by P David Ndang, Peace Channel, Peren District Coordinator.
Through the program, the students and the participant have been disseminated the knowledge of the different symbols of Peace, prominent figures and personalities in peace, children’s perspective of peace, an idea on how to be a peace-builder by avoiding conflict and other peace concepts through group song - ‘Heal the world’ and choreography. The program was attended by more than 210 participants.
