UN wing held an International Peace Conference attended by delegates from over 70 countries in Shimla, to educate people on the importance of social and moral values for a better world.
The one-day peace conference included delegates from India, Thailand, Japan, USA and other countries. The event was hosted by the Law Department of Himachal Pradesh University.
Director of Education for Universal of Peace and Federation, Robert S. Kittel, said that the aim of the event was to educate people on the value of good character for world peace.
"Our main purpose is to educate people so that they can understand the value of good character, value of the strong families as really the cornerstone for building world peace. Peace begins within ourselves, we call micro peace and in our families but then it has got to extend beyond that. So our main focus is education for our peace development and peace programmes," said Kittel.
A group of students from Japan and delegates from Thailand and the USA would be going to different corners of India to achieve the aim of the conference, which is to spread the message of peace through education.
S.N. Sharma, the conference's organizer, said that such seminars benefit developing countries.
"This conference is held across the world by a wing of the United Nations, the Social and Economic Council (ECOSOC), so that they can assess the ground realities and assist in solving the issue of terrorism, and ways to control a regime of expanding nuclear proliferation .Through such seminars, awareness is created in developing countries and thus they are benefited," said Sharma.
The programme would also be extended to states like Jammu and Kashmir, Amritsar and Gujarat.
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