Youth for Peace! 6.25 2013

Young people freely gathered and made loud voice "World Peace" in everywhere in Korea and overseas facing with the day 6.25 which is for commemorate the end of Korean War.

This year, 2013 is especially the 60th anniversary of the end of Korean War.

In the Korean War, many young people sacrificed their lives without any chance to bloom for saving their families and friends' lives and the country.

Since the war ended, South Korea has developed in a quick, and became a country who is telling "Peace" to the world.

It's still the only country divided which is more powerful to touch the people in the world by their voice for World Peace as real.

Especially young people from all over the world(Participants were international) haven't experienced the Korean war, the Cold war or any violent movement much but they tried to feel and understand how appreciate young people of the war's sacrifice and asked the world(leaders) to stop fighting each other and using the young to the war.

The core of today's walk was reading the declaration of world peace as a peace advocate Man Hee Lee read it on 25th, Man in Seoul Olympic Stadium.
This peace walk was taken place in around 100 differend places in the world.
The person concerned in Seoul baranch of International Peace Youth Walk said
"All of the international youth showed spontaneous participation for world peace and we became messengers of peace to fulfill world peace and end the war.
We will keep it up and every international youth should register this such a group for world peace and restoraion of light.
It is the only way to save the youth from war and fulfill world peace that presidents from all over the world should sign the International Law of end of war and world peace unless they don't love their nations and people."

All the participants made voice through various peace performance, the parade of flags of all nations and pickets with peace slogans.

Sisa-News : Peace Walk in Korean

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Man Hee Lee

The way to fulfill World Peace and Restoration of Light.

I've thought of something while The 6th World Peace Festical : Culture and Sports Celebration of Restoring Light was on.
There are many religions in the world.
And they've struggled together and become bitter enemies exclusively, don't you think so?

However, we don't.
As Jesus said in John chapter 1 "Anybody who believe in God is a son of God from Him".

So we hope to hug everybody to achieve World Peace regardless of religion, tribes.
All are God's creatures.

So, what shall we do?
We need to let people be born by hevenly culture to become renew-creature.
Then we can be ONE.

10/21/2012      

Man Hee Lee, a honorary chairman of MANNAM Volunteer Association.

He is charged with an important mission.
Many people would judge him without knowing him.
I would love to show who he is and what he has been doing for world peace and people more.

He is called to help all the people in the world.
He has been giving hope to the desperate and poor by leading this such an association, MANNAM.

I am a member of MANNAM Volunteer Association to become a light to the people who need help.
I am sad to see some people blame him and MANNAM Volunteer Association since He and the people of MANNAM Volunteer Association are just lights for others.

MIYC(MANNAM International Youth Coalition) Why Youth? (2)

Youth for PEACE

MIYC

MANNAM International Youth Coalition.

Youth

We can end war If we unite.

World Peace can be achieved When we stand up for Peace

10Km in Their Shoes - Pledge of Peace

It was held on 21,April,2013 in Seoul, South Korea.

The Journey just started..

Check out this video clip of 10k for Peace!

Greater one is coming so soon!:)

MIYC(MANNAM International Youth Coalition) Why Youth? (1)

You can do many things in your young days.

 You can travel around the world.

You can sing the serenade for your lover.

But, What if war breaks out?

Why don't you stand up for Peace?

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Martin Luther King, Jr.

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality...
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience. King has become a national icon in the history of American progressivism.

A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, in 1962, and organized nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama, that attracted national attention following television news coverage of the brutal police response. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history. He also established his reputation as a radical, and became an object of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's COINTELPRO for the rest of his life. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, recorded his extramarital liaisons and reported on them to government officials, and on one occasion, mailed King a threatening anonymous letter that he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.

On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In 1965, he and the SCLC helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches and the following year, he took the movement north to Chicago. In the final years of his life, King expanded his focus to include poverty and the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam". King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., called the Poor People's Campaign. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting, and the jury of a 1999 civil trial found Loyd Jowers to be complicit in a conspiracy against King.

King was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal posthumously. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor. A memorial statue on the National Mall was opened to the public in 2011.

Martin Luther King Jr's Non-violence

King at a Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi's success with non-violent activism, King had "for a long time...wanted to take a trip to India". With assistance from the Quaker group the American Friends Service Committee, he was able to make the journey in April 1959.[18] The trip to India affected King in a profound way, deepening his understanding of non-violent resistance and his commitment to America's struggle for civil rights. In a radio address made during his final evening in India, King reflected, "Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity". In a sense, Gandhi seemed to have influenced him with certain moral principles[19], though Gandhi himself had been influenced by The Kingdom of God Is Within You, a nonviolent classic written by Christian anarchist Leo Tolstoy. In turn, both Gandhi and Martin Luther King had read Tolstoy. King quoted Tolstoy's War and Peace as well in 1959. All three men—Tolstoy, Gandhi, and King—had been influenced by Jesus' teachings on non-resistance to evil force.

African-American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin had studied Gandhi's teachings,and Jesus' teachings at the SCLC. Rustin counseled King to dedicate himself to the principles of non-violence, served as King's main advisor and mentor throughout his early activism, and was the main organizer of the 1963 March on Washington. Rustin's open homosexuality, support of democratic socialism, and his former ties to the Communist Party USA caused many white and African-American leaders to demand King distance himself from Rustin, which King agreed to do.

Another influence for King's non-violent method was Thoreau's essay On Civil Disobedience, which King read in his student days influenced by the idea of refusing to cooperate with an evil system. He also was greatly influenced by the works of Protestant theologians Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich, as well as Walter Rauschenbush's Christianity and the Social Crisis. King attributed his own non-violent method more to the influence of Niebuhr and Tillich than to Gandhi.[broken citation] In addition, in his later career, King use the concept of "agape" (Christian brotherly love), which may have represented an influence of Paul Ramsey.



+ International Peace Youth Group, the Walk for Peace and Restoration is.
It is a non-violent voice we make to the world in the present.
For No war, we have walked and we have seen all the world people in one spot for one reason and one purpose.

Peaceful way for Peace,
non-violent way for Non Violence.

Kinmen Island, Taiwan, has been transformed to the island of Peace by mine clearing.

Kinmen Island has been transformed into the Island of Peace.
Historically, its location was one of retaliation base as the border of Taiwan and China(Fujian Province, South of China). Taiwan Department of Defense officially announced Kinmen Island as the Island of Peace since 1997 they have removed mine there via the Chinese Newpaper, Information Times.

Taiwan Department of Defense asked the Britain speciality company to remove mine primarily from 1997 to 2006, and the Department of Defense made a mine clearing task force under the army keep doing it from 2007.
There are total 204 minefields and 81,822 got removed in Kinmen Island. The Department of Defense announced about 126,000 mines got eliminated in both areas, Kinmen Island and Mazudao Island.These areas were the military base between China and Taiwan from 1950 to 1970s. Particularly, China bombared Kinmen Island intensively with 470,000 shots for 44 days in 1958. And it countinued till 1978, for 20 years.

Kinmen Island has been transformed into the most famous tourist spot since Taiwan lifted martial law in 1992 and improved relations between both banks.
Taiwan Department of Defense announced they are anticipating that they would finish their work as mine clearing 3 years earlier than the time they are supposed to make it clear agreeing with ICBL(International Campaign to Ban Landmines).

Yonhapnews Correspondent, Sung-Mu Ryu.

Yonhapnews : Peace in Kinmen Island

+Good transformation here it is. There are a lot have happened in history, but we've got to go further with forgiveness which can be called 'LOVE'!

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Eleanor Roosevelt

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (/ˈɛlɨnɔr ˈroʊzəvɛlt/; October 11, 1884 — November 7, 1962) was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from 1933 to 1945 during her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office. President Harry S. Truman later nicknamed her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.

Born into a wealthy and well-connected New York family, the Roosevelts, Eleanor had an unhappy childhood, suffering the deaths of both parents and one of her brothers at a young age. At 15, she attended Allenwood Academy in London, and was deeply influenced by feminist headmistress Marie Souvestre. Returning to the US, she married Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1905. The Roosevelts' marriage was complicated from the beginning by Franklin's controlling mother, and after discovering Franklin's affair with Lucy Mercer in 1918, Eleanor resolved to seek fulfillment in a public life of her own. She persuaded Franklin to stay in politics following his partial paralysis from polio, and began to give speeches and campaign in his place. After Franklin's election as Governor of New York, Eleanor regularly made public appearances on his behalf.

Though widely respected in her later years, Roosevelt was a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness, particularly for her stands on racial issues. She was the first presidential spouse to hold press conferences, write a syndicated newspaper column, and speak at a national convention. On a few occasions, she publicly disagreed with her husband's policies. She launched an experimental community at Arthurdale, West Virginia for the families of unemployed miners, later widely regarded as a failure. She advocated for expanded roles for women in the workplace, the civil rights of African Americans and Asian Americans, and the rights of World War II refugees.

Following her husband's death, Eleanor remained active in politics for the rest of her life. She pressed the US to join and support the United Nations and became one of its first delegates. She served as the first chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights, and oversaw the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Later she chaired the John F. Kennedy administration's Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. By her death, she was regarded as "one of the most esteemed women in the world" and "the object of almost universal respect". In 1999, she was ranked in the top ten of Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century.

The dictionary definition of Activate :

If a device or process is activated, something causes it to start working.

What you need to fulfill your goal,

Knowledge(understanding) + Faith(belief) + Act(action)

You must have in equilibrium.

MANNAM, West Seoul and Gyoung-gi branch went to No-Eul Park in Seoul, South,Korea.

West Seoul and Gyoung-gi branch of MANNAM volunteer association went to No-Eal Park for making an ecological forest as volunteer work on 14th, May.
This move was to activiatel the spirit of MANNAM volunteer association as World Peace and Restoration of Light is fulfilled by giving love and life to all the creature of the Earth.
54 members of MANNAM, West Seoul and Gyoung-gi branch did a great job such as snapping some branches off willos trees to do green wood cuttings, esculin weeding, planting trees and ect.
Allen Torlonen(27, U.S.A), one of Volunteerers said "It was very meaningful to give a life to the nature with other members regardless of nationality and races".

Duck-Hee Gang, the secretary-general of Citizens' Association for No-Eal Park said " We needed many hands before so It is a big help to get support countinously from MANNAM volunteer association".
Meanwhile, West Seoul and Gyoung-gi branch of MANNAM recieved the appreciation plaque from the Sri Lanka Embassy in Seoul since West Seoul and Gyoung-gi branch of MANNAM cooperated enthusiastically at Sri Lanka Independence Day Ceremony.

If you want to check out the original article : MANNAM, a piece for World Peace and Restoration

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Mahatma Gandhi

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith.
It is also the last article of my creed.
Mahatma Gandhi


Nonviolence
Nonviolence is the practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition. It comes from the belief that hurting people, animals or the environment is unnecessary to achieve an outcome and refers to a general philosophy of abstention from violence based on moral, religious or spiritual principles. For some, the philosophy of nonviolence is rooted in the simple belief that God is harmless. 
Therefore, to more strongly connect with God, one must likewise be harmless. Nonviolence also has 'active' or 'activist' elements, in that believers accept the need for nonviolence as a means to achieve political and social change. Thus, for example, the Gandhian ahimsa is a philosophy and strategy for social change that rejects the use of violence, but at the same time sees nonviolent action (also called civil resistance) as an alternative to passive acceptance of oppression or armed struggle against it. 
In general, advocates of an activist philosophy of nonviolence use diverse methods in their campaigns for social change, including critical forms of education and persuasion, mass noncooperation civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action and social, political, cultural and economic forms of intervention.


German Green Party founder Petra Kelly, who founded the Green Party on Nonviolence, with congressman and famed attorney Otto Schily at press conference. In modern times, nonviolent methods of action have been a powerful tool for social protest and revolutionary social and political change.
There are many examples of their use. Fuller surveys may be found in the entries on civil resistance, nonviolent resistance and nonviolent revolution. 
Here certain movements particularly influenced by a philosophy of nonviolence should be mentioned, including Mahatma Gandhi leading a decades-long nonviolent struggle against British rule in India, which eventually helped India win its independence in 1947, Martin Luther King's and James Bevel's adoption of Gandhi's nonviolent methods in the struggle to win civil rights for African Americans, and César Chávez's campaigns of nonviolence in the 1960s to protest the treatment of farm workers in California. 
The 1989 "Velvet Revolution" in Czechoslovakia that saw the overthrow of the Communist government is considered one of the most important of the largely nonviolent Revolutions of 1989. Most recently the nonviolent campaigns of Leymah Gbowee and the women of Liberia were able to achieve peace after a 14-year civil war.
This story is captured in a 2008 documentary film Pray the Devil Back to Hell. In an essay, "To Abolish War," evolutionary biologist Judith Hand advocated the use of nonviolent direct action to dismantle the global war machine.

The term "nonviolence" is often linked with or even used as a synonym for peace, passivity and pacifism. Non-violence (with a hyphen) refers more specifically to the absence of violence and is always the choice to do no harm or the least harm, and passivity is the choice to do nothing. 
Sometimes non-violence is the same as being passive, and other times it isn't. So for example, if a house is burning down, the most harmless appropriate action is to put the fire out, not to sit by and passively let the fire burn. 
There is considerable confusion and contradiction written about non-violence, harmlessness and passivity. A person may advocate nonviolence in a specific context while advocating violence in other contexts. For example, someone who passionately opposes abortion as a life-saving practice may concurrently advocate violence to kill an abortionist.


+Here is another nonviolent struggle in Korea.
  I will be pretty sure to go deep with this historical event later on my blog.
  But want you guys to taste a little bit.

March 1st Movement
(3.1운동)
The March 1st Movement, or Samil Movement, was one of the earliest public displays of Korean resistance during the occupation of the Korean Empire by Japan. The name refers to an event that occurred on March 1, 1919, hence the movement's name, literally meaning "Three-One Movement" or "March First Movement" in Korean. It is also sometimes referred to as the Manse Demonstrations (Hangul: 만세운동; Hanja: 萬歲運動; RR: Manse Undong).

Peace needs peace. 
Me!

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Carlos Santana

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart.

The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana

Carlos Augusto Alves Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican and American musician who became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American music. 

The band's sound featured his melodic, blues-based guitar lines set against Latin and African rhythms featuring percussion instruments such as timbales and congas not generally heard in rock music. 

Santana continued to work in these forms over the following decades. 

He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. 

In 2003 Rolling Stone magazine listed Santana at number 20 on their list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. 

He has won 10 Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards.

This is what he cares about. He does have a voice, right?



Open Heart
"To open your heart to someone means exposing the scars of the past."
“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.”


+My personal experience!
I was in New Zealand for a while.
The beginning days I was stuck with my own style from my home country.
So I was so worried about all the new stuff I faced with such things as how to act, how to say, how to smile(EVEN!!)..
So I looked so NOT-OK!!
Even some people said to me "R U OKAY??" on the street! HAHA
You can tell I was so struggling..right?
Around 3 months I was just like that!! Worrying..and worrying..
Somehow I could meet such a good friend who is from Japan, I could open slightly my tiny and narrow heart(Not now any more!).
Since I have opened my heart to new circumstances and new people, I got so many goodness of it.
Good friends and good memory..
Now I so LOVE New Zealand(If you meet me you can tell!).
Open heart goes to Love...? Right!!:)

MANNAM painted a mural in Busan

MANNAM Volunteer Association members gathered on 11,May at Woo-Am dong, Nam-Gu, Busan to celebrate finishing their special volunteer project, painting a mural for 3 weeks.

This project was called 'CHANGE THE COLOR OF THE WORLD' to encaurage people to be environmentally aware and have environment improvement.

MANNAM Volunteer Association's main slogan is 'When Lights meet Lights, There Is Victory' and it has a specifically international division. People have been very interested in this project about doing it with many international students.

Bonga Ndlovu(29) from South Africa said "I was looking for something to share and love neighbors in Korea and I found this project. It was so rewarding to see re-new walls with colorful and warm touches".

 Check out its original post here!

This site is written in Korean, though lol

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Mother Teresa (2)

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

Judge : to form an estimate or evaluation of; especially : to form a negative opinion about <shouldn't judge him because of his accent>.

ex.You should not judge people by their appearance.

Mother Teresa -Recognition and reception

In India
Mother Teresa had first been recognised by the Indian government more than a third of a century earlier when she was awarded the Padma Shri in 1962 and the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding in 1969.
She continued to receive major Indian awards in subsequent years, including India's highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980.
Her official biography was written by an Indian civil servant, Navin Chawla, and published in 1992.

On 28 August 2010, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of her birth, the government of India issued a special 5 Rupee coin, being the sum she first arrived in India with.
President Pratibha Patil said of Mother Teresa, "Clad in a white sari with a blue border, she and the sisters of Missionaries of Charity became a symbol of hope to many – the aged, the destitute, the unemployed, the diseased, the terminally ill, and those abandoned by their families.

Indian views on Mother Teresa were not uniformly favourable.
Her critic Aroup Chatterjee, who was born and raised in Calcutta but lived in London, reports that "she was not a significant entity in Calcutta in her lifetime".
Chatterjee blames Mother Teresa for promoting a negative image of Calcutta, exaggerating the work done by her Mission, and misusing the funds and privileges at her disposal.
Her presence and profile grated in parts of the Indian political world, as she often opposed the Hindu Right.
The Bharatiya Janata Party clashed with her over the Christian Dalits, but praised her in death, sending a representative to her funeral.
The Vishwa Hindu Parishad, on the other hand, opposed the government's decision to grant her a state funeral.
Its secretary Giriraj Kishore said that "her first duty was to the Church and social service was incidental" and accused her of favouring Christians and conducting "secret baptisms" of the dying.
But, in its front page tribute, the Indian fortnightly Frontline dismissed these charges as "patently false" and said that they had "made no impact on the public perception of her work, especially in Calcutta".
Although praising her "selfless caring", energy and bravery, the author of the tribute was critical of Mother Teresa's public campaigning against abortion and that she claimed to be non-political when doing so.


+ Personal comment.
This is actaully my problem.
I get to quick judge sometimes and I hate this.
As soon as I judge others, I feel I am doing it and that makes me feel so bad.
Oops, I did it again!
I know, I do this so easily then others do to me way easier that I make lots of mistakes!!!!!!!!! Oh, my!!

It is a life-long jorney to become a better person!
Woo-hoo!

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Mother Teresa

Peace begins with a smile

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu (Albanian: [aˈɲɛs ˈɡɔɲdʒa bɔjaˈdʒiu]) and commonly known as Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an ethnic Albanian, Indian Roman Catholic nun.

Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133 countries. They run hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup kitchens; children's and family counseling programmes; orphanages; and schools. Members of the order must adhere to the vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, and the fourth vow, to give "Wholehearted and Free service to the poorest of the poor".

She was the recipient of numerous honours including the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. In late 2003, she was beatified, the third step toward possible sainthood, giving her the title "Blessed Teresa of Calcutta". A second miracle credited to Mother Teresa is required before she can be recognised as a saint by the Catholic Church. She was admired by many; in 1999, a poll of Americans ranked her first in Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century. However, she has also been accused of failing to provide medical care or painkillers, misusing charitable money, and maintaining positive relationships with dictators.



Smile

A smile is a facial expression formed by flexing the muscles near both ends of the mouth and by flexing muscles throughout the mouth. Some smiles include contraction of the muscles at the corner of the eyes (see 'Duchenne Smiling' below). Among humans, it is an expression denoting pleasure, sociability, happiness, or amusement, but can also be an involuntary expression of anxiety, in which case it is known as a grimace. Smiling is something that is understood by everyone despite culture, race, or religion; it is internationally known. Cross-cultural studies have shown that smiling is a means of communication throughout the world. But there are large differences between different cultures. A smile can also be spontaneous or artificial.:)


Smile - historical background

Many biologists think the smile originated as a sign of fear. Primalogist Signe Preuschoft traces the smile back over 30 million years of evolution to a "fear grin" stemming from monkeys and apes who often used barely clenched teeth to portray to predators that they were harmless. The smile may have evolved differently among species and especially among humans.
Biology is not the only academic discipline that interprets the smile. Those who study kinesics view the smile as an affect display. It can communicate feelings such as: love, happiness, pride, contempt, and embarrassment.



-There are tons of information about smile like cultural differences, sex appeal  on the internet. Whatever it says, SMILE :)

The Walk for Peace and Restoration with MANNAM and MYIC(5)

Peace begins with a smile.
Mother Teresa

Well, nothing much I need to add here.
You just see what I say,right?
Smile!:)

The Walk for Peace and Restoration with MANNAM and MYIC(4)

War

An absence of war is usually called peace.

There have been many many wars including a concept of religious wars.

Religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to the supernatural, and to spirituality.

And a religious war (Latin: bellum sacrum) is a war caused by, or justified by, religious differences. 

It can involve one state with an established religion against another state with a different religion or a different sect within the same religion, or a religiously motivated group attempting to spread its faith by violence, or to suppress another group because of its religious beliefs or practices. 

The Muslim conquests, the Crusades, the Reconquista, and the French Wars of Religion are frequently cited historical examples.

(a bit from Wikipedia)

The Walk for Peace and Restoration was a truly meaningful event even when we approach it with a religious view.

The honorary chairman Man Hee Lee is a Christian leader individually, there was a variety of different religious or non-religious people though(which is supposed to be).

Indeed it was ONE.

 Monks(They aren't Korean, I personally assume they are from Thai) are walking for world peace.

One of international youth organizations' representatives is getting a flower to put in his suit pocket.

Cool to see these people in a full traditional clothing in the hot whether.

Beautiful traditional costume she is wearing and smiling!

People are all different so they are beautiful as who they are.

There isn't any better culture than others.

When I was young I was thinking monks, priests, nuns and other religious people do not laugh, do not go to toilet but communicate with some invisible  beings with very serious look.

LOL.
I realized that they can even have funny hats to listen well to young leaders of international organizations'.
For World Peace, indeed:)

My friends,
People are, the earth is moving actually to have PEACE.
Do you feel it?;)

The Walk for Peace and Restoration with MANNAM and MYIC(3)

Marching.

This was the first small group of  leading all the followers for peace.

It represented the spirit of participants' desire for peace 

Over 30 degrees.. Hot and humid whether condition. But they were wearing full uniform.

Yamaha is a famous instrument brand in the world which is a Japanese company. 

This is saying 'World Peace', right? :)

The one, International Peace Youth Group, the Walk for Peace and Restoration was held in Seoul, South Korea.
So a significant portion of participants were Koreans(How lucky!) as you see.
Soon this kind of walking movement will be happening in the world occasionally.

If you do have a chance to be a part of this event for world peace,
what position will you be interested in to take?
Will you be out of the parade to just have a look?
Or be just a center of world peace?
Regardless of any circumstances, please make a voice , please step in!
If you are a moving being :)



Before I close editing this post,
I will do my 'routine' adding some from Wikipedia! ha!


Marching

Marching refers to the organized, uniformed, steady and rhythmic walking forward, usually associated with military troops.
Marching is often performed to march music, and often associated with military parades.

Marching is part of basic training in the military in most countries. In most cases, marching uses a system of drill commands. Learning to march by obeying commands is considered a form of discipline.
While marching, individuals must maintain their dress, cover, interval, and distance (DCID):

dress — alignment with the person to the side;
cover — alignment with the person in front;
interval — space between the person(s) to the side;
distance — space between the person in front.

In Northern Ireland marching is a major part of the culture, with hundreds of marches occurring annually. These are usually organized by groups such as the Orange Order, which provide most of the participants. Music is provided by marching bands including silver bands, flute bands and others. Marching is often seen as a symbol of control over a particular area, and marching is often seen as a sectarian activity.

The Royal Marines refer to a long distance march carrying full kit as a Yomp. The most famous yomp of recent times was during the 1982 Falklands War.

MANNAM : Word has peace and touches people's heart : Benjamin Franklin

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Benjamin Franklin


So, what shall we do then? :)

Let us become better people and have better world!




From Wikipedia, Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705][Note 1][Note 2] – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. As a scientist, he was a major figure in the American Enlightenment and the history of physics for his discoveries and theories regarding electricity. He invented the lightning rod, bifocals, the Franklin stove, a carriage odometer, and the glass 'armonica'. He facilitated many civic organizations, including a fire department and a university.

Franklin earned the title of "The First American" for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity; as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies, then as the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation. Franklin was foundational in defining the American ethos as a marriage of the practical values of thrift, hard work, education, community spirit, self-governing institutions, and opposition to authoritarianism both political and religious, with the scientific and tolerant values of the Enlightenment. In the words of historian Henry Steele Commager, "In a Franklin could be merged the virtues of Puritanism without its defects, the illumination of the Enlightenment without its heat." To Walter Isaacson, this makes Franklin "the most accomplished American of his age and the most influential in inventing the type of society America would become."

Franklin, always proud of his working class roots, became a successful newspaper editor and printer in Philadelphia, the leading city in the colonies. He was also partners with William Goddard and Joseph Galloway the three of whom published the Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper that was known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of the British monarchy in the American colonies. He became wealthy publishing Poor Richard's Almanack and The Pennsylvania Gazette.

Franklin gained international renown as a scientist for his famous experiments in electricity and for his many inventions, especially the lightning rod. He played a major role in establishing the University of Pennsylvania and was elected the first president of the American Philosophical Society. Franklin became a national hero in America when he spearheaded the effort to have Parliament repeal the unpopular Stamp Act. An accomplished diplomat, he was widely admired among the French as American minister to Paris and was a major figure in the development of positive Franco-American relations.
For many years he was the British postmaster for the colonies, which enabled him to set up the first national communications network. He was active in community affairs, colonial and state politics, as well as national and international affairs. From 1785 to 1788, he served as governor of Pennsylvania. Toward the end of his life, he freed his slaves and became one of the most prominent abolitionists.

His colorful life and legacy of scientific and political achievement, and status as one of America's most influential Founding Fathers, have seen Franklin honored on coinage and money; warships; the names of many towns, counties, educational institutions, namesakes, and companies; and more than two centuries after his death, countless cultural references