I was on a recent
visit to participate in the annual meeting of an organization called Universal
Solidarity Movement, Indore called the National Peace Convention from the 30th
January till the 1st of February 2020 which happened in the Christ
University, Bangalore, where the members from all across the world, such as
people in the field of education, young students from all across India and the
people who are involved in charity work for the cause of humanity also
participates.
There were quite a
lot of deliberations on the peace and the coexistence of the value of it today
and there were many great scholars of the modern world who helped us assisting
in the efforts to understand, what are the causes, roles and contributions of
men and women and the impacts that has happened till now.
In my efforts to
understand, amidst the fast moving world amidst the value of work, family and
so on, do we have time for peace? Guess a big question we need to think today.
Mahatma Gandhiji
was non violent, and the efforts that he brought to bring humanity together was
a considerable task, which many look up and they forget.
We were having a
panel discussion on Road to humanity and what can we do for it and there was
also infiltration through one of the speakers on the importance of the recently
widely spoken of bill of rule for life, and there were contradictions, on it
and he was asked to step down.
To my knowledge,
we still feel that the speaker must have been allowed to speak and share his
thoughts and left to the individual to take it up which is to answer.
We believe
religion was a strong hold of any forum and holding its significant value always
matter a priority for all, only qualification we need is a willingness to serve
along with faith, hope and love.
The era where we
feel that money and the status of life holds significance, do we have time for ourselves
to reconcile with others, significantly peace begins here and that’s when we
try to improve from ourselves and a mutual feeling begins.
When I is replaced
by WE, illness becomes wellness and I strongly believe Peace should be the
binding force to replace it, whoever and wherever we are.
The media should
be an independent and unbiased medium when we deemed peace needs to be spread
as a matter of priority. The Job of responsible media is to present with facts and
figures and not opinions, once many go through opinions then the natural
process of analyzing and interpreting gets lost and we don’t come to that
intention to reconcile, another significance of peace building today.
Lastly, I strongly
urge to a whole lot of Young minds to understand the era of globalization,
where everything gets changed, but not the way we accept and lead with life and
things, what we need now, is the acceptance of thinking globally for the peace
of humanity and making small steps for change wherever we are.
The person, whom I
am likely to meet tomorrow, may not be there but certainly there is an expected
chance I may also not be there.
A man, who stands
for nothing, will fall for anything.
We should not wait
for the right moment, but rather the time is now…
To
be continued…
Joseph Kamal Francis
