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On 27 April 2022, a virtual workshop to enable intergenerational dialogue to break the long-standing cycle of Gender-Based Violence (GBV) was held in Botswana. The workshop is a joint initiative between an international peace NGO called Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), International Peace Youth Group(IPYG), and Volunteer Hub(VH), a social enterprise that contributes to alleviate socio-economic and environmental challenges in Botswana. During the main presentation on the Peace Education values, Abisola Shofoyeke from the IPYG said, “the probability of children who have witnessed their parents’ violence becoming violent themselves as a parent to their children or to their partner is extremely high. In addition, those children don’t know how to solve conflicts with anything but violence, and they tend to find themselves in relationships where they continue being victims of violence.” Abisola Shofoyeke suggested the Peace Education of HWPL which teach...

The war between Ukraine and Russia killed over 3,000 people and is lasting nearly 4 months since the day the war broke out. There are no signs of ending the shootings in parts of the world. While coping with the new normal, the international community faces new concerns over the risk of armed conflict increasing in various places including their own country. The emergence of a new conflict structure requires a new approach to problem-solving. In this reality, the achievements of the international peace organization Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light (HWPL), at the private level present a ‘new model of peace’ to the global community. Chairman Lee Man-hee of HWPL is a Korean War veteran who experienced the horrors of the war, discharged from his military service because of a gunshot wound. He is a peace activist who works to achieve the common goal of cessation of war and world peace. His representative achievement in leading the HWPL was his cont...