Launching of the Construction of conference hall for Inter-faith Council for Peace Promotion.

Jesus the peace promoter says to his disciples “peace is what I leave with you; it is my own peace that I give you.”… John 17:27. Similarly, Quran 59:23 discloses that peace is one of the names of God himself. All believers and Atheist know the importance of peace and they ought to wish each other peace always. Peace should start in our hearts and flourish to all parts of South Sudan and beyond.

The United Nation Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is on peace mission to South Sudan and similarly, Community Organization for Peer Educators (COPE) promotes the peace as enshrined in the Revitalized Agreement on the resolutions of the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS). The IFCPI have been in the forefront of peace promotion in the state and beyond. For this reason UNMISS has pledged to support the IFCPI with independent hall space for the peace promotion in Yambio and beyond. COPE has made every technical requirement to implement the project for the right cause. Without peace in our hearts, minds, country and beyond us; life would be challenging to children, women, men and all the vulnerable groups.

Peace is a freedom from a negative noise. Peace enhances societal friendship and harmony in the absence of hostility and violence. Peace is lack of conflict.

Peace enriches our communties/societies and individual lives as it directs us to embrace diversity and support one another to the fullest extent possible. Through caring, generosity, and fairness we provide a cornerstone for attaining a sustainable, just, and meaningful, vibrant and fulfilling personal and community life. Positive peace investment promotes the optimum for human environment for human potential to flourish: in a personal, societal and economic sense.

Peace in mind, which is inner peace, offers countless benefits: Better concentration ability for adolescent & youth in schools. It creates efficiency in handling personal daily affairs of life, peace enhance a sense of inner strength and power, peace instill more patience, tolerance and tact in humans, it help us to have freedom from stress, anxieties and worries and a sense of inner happiness and bliss.

Article by COPE Executive Board Director, Prof. Felix Danambutiyo.