Aung Myint Thu, Arakanese (Myanmar) was invited as the VIP guest by International Peace Youth Group for International Youth Peace Conference, held in Korea, September 2019. Aung gave 5 minutes speech in term of the unification of Korean Peninsula as well as peace education curriculum. More than 400 youths and 100 media representatives attended.
Aung also introduced his organizations, +Change Maker which is youth camp program as well as Manaung Youth Networking Group that was found in 2012 for youth development program.
Learn more about the conference: https://youtu.be/WyNflZy4c10
Please see the full speech below: http://www.peacestep.com/2019/09/26/lp-project-2019-international-youth-peace-conference/
Speech of Aung Myint Thu
“First of all, I would like to appreciate to the Chairman of HWPL,
Mr. Man Hee Lee as well as IPYG for giving me the chance to be here. My
name is Aung Myint Thu who is a Myanmar youth as an earnest supporter of
world peace as well as the unification of the Korean peninsula. Just as
conflicts are happening in many places around the world, so are the
regions where I was born. Most of young people can’t go to school when
the war is occurred.
What will happen to the children in the future? They finally can’t
receive the proper education and thousands of dreams will disappear.
This experience has taught me how terrible war is and how to destroy a
generation. Few years ago, I was in real war refugee and assigned to the
particular refugee camp.
In there, I started an education activity for the youths and was
working as an educator in a school of immigrant. In order to support
youths from the region, I have set up the “Manaung Youth Networking
Group” as the organization’s executive director in the year of 2011.
Here’s the youth, at the beginning of HWPL’s peace activity. The
Chairman of HWPL, Mr. Man Hee Lee was the veteran of the Korean War in
1950 when he was a student. When the war occurs, students and young
people are many of sacrificed and killed without power. Nothing can
compensate for the lives of young people like flowers.
Therefore, Chairman Lee said he promised to build
the peaceful world so that the war would not repeat itself, considering
fallen comrades. I was greatly impressed by his motivation, passion and
his steady practical ability for peace. Last year, when I attended the
4th Annual Commemoration of the September 18th World Alliance of
Religions’ Peace Summit, he asked a favor to young people from all over
the world.
Chairman Lee asked us to work with the country’s youth and students
for peace as One. When I listened he’s speech and IPYG’s activities, I
thought, “Yes, this is what I’ve dreamed of.” And I decided to be the
peace messenger. As the result, I went back to Myanmar and I built a
school for young people called “Plus/Positive Change Maker.”
After this event, I will return to my school as principal, and
implement the IPYG’s peace education curriculum. This curriculum targets
youths from elementary school students to under 35 years of age. They
will receive about 7 months of basic education include specialization
course.
Through the IPYG’s peace education curriculum, Young people properly
will recognize themselves as decision makers of the future. And youths
realize their empowerment into positive way for peace. Furthermore, I’ll
do my utmost to try that peace education and the culture of peace
activities will apply throughout Myanmar by signing MOU between HWPL and
schools which were carried out the IPYG’s peace education curriculum.
The aim of IPYG’s vision is that youths should become a main part of
peace to prevent any conflicts from occurring and to attain peace in the
long run. Now, Let us begin with IPYG! WE ARE ONE!
Thank you.”
Reference: http://www.peacestep.com/2019/09/26/lp-project-2019-international-youth-peace-conference/
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