SUSTAINABLE PEACE PROCESS

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SOCIAL HARMONYSocial harmony is peaceful interaction of human dynamics among members of a social group or groups. Basic survival and subsistence families or complex societies develop and thrive on some form of social harmony.

Survival is enhanced by productive exchanges of labor and production with divisions of labor increasing the benefits of social harmony.

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Steps to Peace BuildingMutual understanding, progressive positive negotiations, dialogue instead of debate, Sustainable peace process, participation of the grass root level society in the peace process, cultivating a "Culture of peace", reconciliation, conflict management. Activity based session to enhance and build social harmony.

Peace building is a term describing outside interventions that are designed to prevent the start or resumption of violent conflict within a nation by creating a sustainable peace. Peace building activities address the root causes or potential causes of violence, create a societal expectation for peaceful conflict resolution and stabilize society politically and socioeconomically. In 2007, the UN Secretary-General's Policy Committee defined peace building as follows: "Peace building involves a range of measures targeted to reduce the risk of lapsing or relapsing into conflict by strengthening national capacities at all levels for conflict management, and to lay the foundations for sustainable peace and development. Peace building strategies must be coherent and tailored to specific needs of the country concerned, based on national ownership, and should comprise a carefully prioritized, sequenced, and therefore relatively narrow set of activities aimed at achieving the above objectives

Peace Building

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Sustainable Peace Process

is a state of harmony characterized by the lack of violent conflict and the freedom from fear of violence. Commonly understood as the absence of hostility,

Important:peacetime is not only the absence of war or violent conflict, but also the presence of positive and respectful cultural and economic relationships.

Peace

THAT’S WHY WE NEED SUSTAINABLE PEACE PROCESS

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Sustainable Peace Process :

Sustainable : continue or be continued for a long timePeace : Refer the previous slide

Process : a series of things that are done in order to achieve a particular

result , result is peace

Peace Process : a series of talks and agreements designed to end

war or violence between two groups

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The UN Peace building Commission works in Burundi, Central African Republic, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia and Sierra Leone[29] and the UN Peace building Fund funds projects in in Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Liberia, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, South Sudan, Timor-Leste and Uganda.[30] Other UN organizations are working in Haiti (MINUSTAH),[31] Lebanon, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Iraq.

Ongoing efforts

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Sustainable Peace ProcessBuild Social harmonyConflict managementBuild cultural relationshipsGrow-up mutual understandingAvoid hostilityChange AttitudesReduce gap among nationsEqualize all citizensProper Education since childhoodTeach to stop hostility thinkingStop spreading hostility things

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Sustainable Peace ProcessIn Sri Lanka•Past : All the Sri Lankans had faced to the war within past 30 years.

*Faced to so many difficulties*Fear for death*No trustworthy future*Afraid to travel *Difficult to concentrate on anything*Failure at studies

•Present : Now there are no any war or conflicts here.*Live without fear and freely*Nobody likes to war or conflicts*Everybody likes to live peacefully*Everybody needs to be equalized without neglecting*Everybody likes to live as Sri Lankans not as any

•Future : No need of any war or conflict again*Change attitudes*Proper education from childhood*Peace and harmony among all the citizens*Clear political environment W.I.D.Perera - 2010/ICT/78

This is a very valuable and reasonable topic for Sri Lankans.

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Sustainable Peace ProcessFinishing the war is not enough for

peace. It should be sustainable to be realistic and then it will increase social harmony and the peace.

Should reduce the sources which will be reasons for a war.Should change attitudesShould increase mutual understandingShould establish projects to increase the social harmonyShould reduce the cultural gap

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Sustainable Peace ProcessResponsibilitiesAs teachers, Lectures : Teach to change attitudes since childhood

Teach to control anger Stop speaking aggressive things in front of

students Act as a peace ambassador

As the government : establish a clear political environmenttreat equally to every citizenStop spreading aggressive thingswork for the country and to increase the peacestart projects for sustainable peace process

As The mass media : telecast or broadcast peaceful ideas, eventsstop telecasting aggressive, hostility things,

newsalways show the truth with correct information

As a women: as a mother she can change attitudes since birthincrease the peaceful environment in the family

As the University students : Lets start sustainable peace process

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Sustainable Peace Process

In universities, there are students from all nationalities. It is very easy convey the peace message among all the citizens through them.

Here, Our campus is an ideal place to start sustainable peace process.

We stay in together at the hostels. So we can understand each other very well and we can learn about different cultures. It is increasing mutual understanding.

The steps we can take :

• Batch trips (Increasing brotherhood, understanding, friendship )• Cultural events (New year Function, Christmas day, Deepavali)• Organizing sport events , get together functions• Discussions• Helping each other when in need• Projects

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Thank You!W.I.D.Perera - 2010/ICT/78