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“I wish to thank Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon for devoting their lives to achieving universal peace and promoting the fundamental values of peace, dialogue and cooperation in the name of the human family.”
South Korea’s former deputy minister of unification addressed the topic “Future Strategy for the Unification of the Korean Peninsula and Our Response: The Path of Peace on the Korean Peninsula"
“From a repressed and brutally poor country after World War II, South Korea has become one of the wealthiest, most peaceful, and most progressive countries on earth. And I hold out a similar hope for the North.”
“I am one of you, a member of this big family, and would like to conclude with a prayer I love very much. I will say it first in Hebrew. Now the translation in English: God, the one who makes peace in His heavens, He will be the one to make peace on earth, and to bring peace to all humanity of the world. And let us say together: Amen!”
“May our wishes for a world of peace begin with the transformation of the heart; the education of peace; and, above all, by witnessing peace from oneself, thus contributing to the creation of a mentality and culture of peace.”
“We must challenge ourselves as leaders never to take peace for granted; we must invest in peace and conflict prevention and take concrete steps towards promoting the achievement of genuine peace and reconciliation.”
“Peace is not about the absence of violence. It is about the presence of heavenly harmony. Security is similarly about living in a state of peace rather than having access to protection from harm. Human development is finding balance despite an environment of imbalance.”
“We praise and give You thanks for having fearfully and wonderfully made us in Your divine image and likeness and for giving us the responsibility to be the stewards of Your creation.”
“Palau is a matrilineal society. In our traditional leadership, women have always held positions of power and respect.… Our deep-rooted cultural wisdom and traditions have been faithfully passed down through the generations: women and men working side by side for the betterment of our people and country.”
“For we must focus today on the need for peace in Northeast Asia, most specifically in our immediate environs on the Korean Peninsula, and in the South and East China Seas, and onward to South Asia and in the Middle East areas and the danger zones of the Persian (Arabian) Gulf.”
“I want to concentrate … on the Western Balkans region, where my country is. We know what happened in the past. Though it has been a long period of time, the concerns of that time can never be forgotten. It’s not just the part of the population that lives on the peninsula that has suffered from the past, but we must worry about the other part, which has exercised violence against others, which refuses to condemn the past. Rather, they call it strangely glorious and seek restitution.”
“There is a global network of Ambassadors for Peace today, sowing the good seeds of harmony and bringing peaceful solutions to problems. But, we need even more people to form a global task force for peace that can bring substantial results in the area of peace, including influencing education for peace in our schools because the biggest changes we can experience can come through education.”