Peace Leader Man Hee Lee Warmly Received Aboard SS Lane Victory in San Pedro

Peace leaders Man Hee Lee and Kim Nam Hee were welcomed aboard the SS Lane Victory by a large crowd. The name of the boat is particularly fitting as Chairman Lee is paving the road to victory for peace. It is great that a military ship was transformed into a platform of peace instead of war.

MANNAM Peace News : What MANNAM and the world want to achieve for Syria

G8 backs urgent Syria peace talks in Geneva

G8 leaders meeting in Northern Ireland have backed calls for Syrian peace talks to be held in Geneva "as soon as possible".

After adopting a statement, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said the leaders had managed "to overcome fundamental differences".

But no timetable for the Geneva talks was given.

The statement does not mention what role Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could play in the future.

Russia is backing President Assad, while the US and its European allies are supporting the rebels.

Earlier on Tuesday, the Kremlin insisted that each of the Syrian sides at the Geneva talks should be able to select their own delegations, sidestepping questions about whether this could leave open a role for Mr Assad.

The communique is largely a reaffirmation of what was said at the Geneva Conference in June 2012, reports the BBC's Jonathan Marcus at the summit in Enniskillen.

Sending signal
The G8 leaders agreed the joint statement on Syria after lengthy discussions at the end their two-day summit.

The seven-point document says that any future transitional government should be "formed by mutual consent".

It stresses that the leaders are united in wanting a negotiated and peaceful end to the conflict that will produce a government "under a top leadership that inspires public confidence."

However, both Russia and the West could interpret such phrasing as their diplomatic success at the summit, correspondents say.

The Kremlin refused to support any statement making Mr Assad's removal from power an explicit goal.

But speaking to reporters after the summit, President Putin said he did not feel "isolated" in Enniskillen despite clashing with other leaders.

At the same time, Mr Cameron pledged at a separate news conference "to learn the lessons from Iraq" by making sure key institutions of the state are maintained through any transition.

The prime minister said it was important to send a signal to the Syrian people that there would be a functioning state once Mr Assad was gone.

This could be seen as encouragement to the Assad supporters perhaps to begin thinking about a future without him, says our correspondent.

The joint statement also condemns "any use of chemical weapons in Syria" and urges both Damascus and the rebels at the Geneva conference "to commit to destroying and expelling from Syria all organisations and individuals affiliated to al-Qaeda and any other non-state actors linked to terrorism".

On the humanitarian front, the G8 leaders agreed to provide nearly $1.5bn (£960m) in new funds to help people affected by the raging conflict.

More than 4.25 million people have been displaced since the Syrian conflict began in March 2011.

More than 90,000 people have been killed, according to UN estimates.

In Enniskillen, the leaders also signed a declaration committing themselves to "fight the scourge of tax evasion" and promote free trade.

Vladimir Putin: Russia and US to draft Syria peace plan

Russia and the US will be responsible for drafting the "underlying principles" of a settlement to help end the Syrian crisis, the Russian president has confirmed.

Speaking at the end of the two-day summit in Northern Ireland, Vladimir Putin said some G8 members had agreed with the Russian position, that there was no proof that the ruling Assad regime had used chemical weapons, but that there were cases of opposition forces being caught with them.


The Russian president said that all evidence would be presented to the UN Security Council with Russia, as a permanent member, "actively assessing the situation".

via BBC News

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How sad it is!
How miserable what's been happening to the people, especially kids in Syria!
You have no known person in Syria?
Still I and you live in the same world.
Do you and do I think this such civil war in Syria is none of our business?
You know the answer if you have heart as human-being.

Why don't we make time to have peace talk?
Why don't we find some group which consider peace as the most valuable and the necessary in the world?
You know I am saying MANNAM International Association led by a peace leader, Man Hee Lee :)
We actualize Peace in our real lives! 

Come and join us!

MANNAM International Association

MANNAM peace news : Run for Peace(2)

He's been running all his life, running for freedom, running for peace.


 A tour of Iran\'s leisure landscape A tour of Iran's leisure landscape
"I was much more comfortable," he said. 
"I was running and exercising every day. I also worked as a mechanic on the officers' cars once they realized I wasn't a threat."

Baluchi says running kept him sane during his imprisonment. Once released, he returned to the cycling team. Baluchi and his teammates traveled to Germany for competition.
"At that point, I never wanted to go back to Iran," Baluchi said.
He spent the next four years competing with the German cycling team. 
Baluchi was taken aback by the level of admiration and respect he received. He had little education, no income and would sleep wherever he could lay his head.
Once he was granted a German passport, he set out for other destinations. With only a backpack and his bicycle, he steered clear of transportation by car or train for fear of getting caught. 
He says he stopped frequently to help the homeless, despite his own very limited resources.

"While in Morocco I rode by this old man who had torn-up shoes tied onto his feet," Baluchi said. "I gave him my own shoes and the only $2 I had left. Anything that I had, besides my bike, I would give away."
On another African stop, Baluchi says he spent a day rebuilding the roof of a damaged school. 
He says he made friends everywhere he went, and they took care of him as well. 
A Portuguese family gave him $2,000, which he mailed to Iran for his family. And a Colombian dentist fixed his teeth for no charge.
His life on the road -- running in a security vest adorned with the American and Iranian flags -- took him from China to Panama, France and New Zealand -- 55 countries in all. 
Communicating the message of love and peace.
Eighty-five flat tires later, Baluchi arrived at the U.S. border in Monterrey, Mexico, asking for a visa to enter America.
 After waiting three months with no document, Baluchi says he got lost while riding his bike in the desert.
"I was 27 miles in Arizona and I had no idea," he said. 
"I was awakened one morning by a helicopter hovering over my tent. It was border patrol. When they told me I was actually in the U.S. I started crying."
It was a year after the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, and a Middle Eastern man riding alone in the desert might raise suspicions.

"I started speaking German, hoping they wouldn't know my nationality. Once the officer searched my tent and saw one of the newspaper headlines 'Iranian Runs Around the World for Peace,' he jumped back and put his hand on his gun."
Until my heart stops beating, I'll keep running for peace"


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What I've learnt is 'never give up'.
Since I have been into peace, I've met countless people who don't seem positive about achievement of world peace.
I know they've tried a lot(not everyone though) and a kind of failed to get what they longed for which is world peace.
But we are human being.
What does 'being' mean?
Its active, not like a spot(sometimes I love English by knowing how letters work together).

Let's be being!:)

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I am totally lost at this article in BBC news website.
Can anybody find this article's address to share such this cool story with many people?
That would be so great(at the same time that would prove how I can be silly .......only sometimes..).

MANNAM peace news : Run for Peace(1)

He's been running all his life, running for freedom, running for peace.

It started when he ran away from home at the age of eight. 
Later he ran away from his homeland, Iran, and spent seven years on a bicycle, pedaling 49,700 miles across 55 countries.

In 2002, he reached America. 
He now lives in a tent in Death Valley.
It's been nearly 10 years since Reza Baluchi escaped from Iran. 
He has run across the United States twice and around its perimeter once. 
He sets out on every journey with the same mission: to spread a message of world peace.

Baluchi plans to begin his next extended run in Israel and finish atop the highest peak on earth -- Mount Everest. 
His route will take him through the Middle East, including Iran. 
He'd be going home for the first time since escaping on his bike.

"I got tired of having no freedom," he said. 
"I would wear a t-shirt and they would stop me. I'd grow out my hair and they'd make me cut it. I traveled out of the country with the cycling team and never came back."

Baluchi grew up in the northern Iranian city of Rasht, the youngest of eight children including a brother permanently traumatized by his service in the Iran-Iraq war. 
His family barely made a living from their rice farm. 
He would run seven miles to school, and back home, every day.

Baluchi ran away from home after upsetting his mother and getting a beating. He fled on foot, running more than 300 miles to Isfahan where he stayed with his aunt and uncle and continued his schooling. 
Despite his young age, Baluchi helped support that family by working as a mechanic, running another 14 miles to work after class each day.

His athletic abilities didn't go unnoticed; he was recruited to join the national cycling team at 14. 
Baluchi cycled and won numerous competitions through his teen years.

He also fell away from Islam, the state-sponsored religion of Iran. 
He says he was a peaceful activist -- and got in trouble for associating with dissidents. 
At 19, he was arrested by a government militia known as the Basij for eating during Ramadan, the holy month when Muslims are expected to fast. 
Baluchi was wearing a Michael Jackson t-shirt and carrying "banned pre-revolutionary videotape" -- a romantic movie.

He says he spent the next 45 days imprisoned in a torture cell.
"Every day they tortured me," Baluchi said. 
"They broke my shoulder; I cried. 
They would hit me with a baton and burn me with skewers."

He says he was frequently beaten unconscious and, on some occasions, hung from a tree by his wrists.
"My hands had turned completely black from the dead blood; I thought I would have to cut them off. Every day I prayed that I die. Every day I would cry. I thought it would be better if they just killed me so I wouldn't have to suffer."
After questioning his family and investigating his intentions, Baluchi says the Basij deemed him essentially harmless. 
He was removed from the torture cell, and spent the next 18 months jailed under less threatening conditions.

Peace Leader such as Man Hee Lee : Juanes

Juanes: Grammy-award-winning musician talks peace with BBC

3 May 2013 Last updated at 17:01 GMT Help
Grammy-award-winning Colombian musician Juanes is known for his passionate lyrics exploring themes of peace and love.

He has sold 16 million albums in his career, making him the world's top all Spanish-language rock artist.

Juanes has also become a global peace activist, inspired by his childhood in Medellin at the height of civil war. His foundation, Mi Sangre, promotes peace in Colombia by empowering youth affected by violence to become agents of change in their communities.

He is also a co-founder of Paz sin Fronteras, an organisation that uses music to promote peace. In 2008, when tensions rose between Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela, Juanes played a concert on the border between Colombia and Venezuela to call for a peaceful resolution to the conflict.

He has been named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World, and he received an award for distinguished humanitarian leadership from the Atlantic Council in Washington DC. Before the ceremony, Juanes sat down with the BBC's Katty Kay.


+It would be so cool Man Hee Lee and Juanes have a time to talk about peace together.
They both went through war and talk about Peace.
Regardless nationality, race, age, people can be united as ONE for peace

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 : 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 :)