Global peace activist

 

When I was surfing the internet, I saw the news about peace agreement in Mindanao, the Philippines, which had lasted for 40 years, by a messenger of peace who has traveled around the world 10 times.

The messenger of peace who has traveled the world 10 times?

I might be exhausted by just one flight, but who is this man?

And I know well about Mindanao. That is the territory where there are constant wars and conflicts.

However, how was it possible to get a peace agreement and end the wars in that island Mindanao? I was starting to wonder about him. 

 

Korea is separated by North Korea and South Korea. So there are many adults who desire unification. But, on the other hand, students usually have no interest in unification.

What was worse is that there are some children who don’t know the fact that North and South Korea belong to the same nation originally.

I think Korea will be a country that has big power in the global world, if Korea achieves to be unified. But some people are against to be unified. 

I really want Korea to be a peace country that has no relevance to war anymore. 

While thinking about peace I tried to find activists who have given their effort to peace.

 

Global peace activist

Mahatma Gandhi / India Oct 2, 1869 – Jan 30, 1948

▶ Career

Nonresistance Nonviolent Movement

Non-violent civil disobedience in protest against British rule in 1942

Non-violent resistance in protest against annual meetings of Indian National Congress in 1991

Declaration of Satyagraha in 1919,

 

 

▶ Quotes

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Gandhi who is known as peace activist led India to independence and he attempted to practice nonviolence.

 

Martin Luther King / American

January 15th, 1929 - April 4th, 1968

Peace activist who made a movement about African-American Civil Rights Movement and led Civil Rights Movement based on nonviolent.

 

▶ Career

African-American’s Right Activist.

Leader of ‘Civil Rights Movement’ based on nonviolent

Found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957.

 American Baptist minister in Montgomery in 1954.

▶ Awards

Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

▶ Quotes

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

 

Nelson Mandela / The Republic of South Africa

July 18th, 1918 - December 5th, 2013

Mandela was the 1st President of South Africa where dominated by white men

And he was a peace activist who fought for African- American right and peace

▶ Career

Elected as South Africa’s first president in 1994. 

Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1998

▶ Awards

Jawaharlal Nehru prize during his time in prison in 1979

Bruno Kreisky Prize for Human Rights

International Simon Bolirar Prize at UNESCO

Nobel Peace Prize in 1993.

International Amnesty’s Ambassador of Conscience in 2006

▶ Quotes

Peace is the greatest weapon.

 

Teresa / Yugoslav

August 26th, 1910 - September 5th, 1997

▶ Career

Founded of Missionaries of Charity in 1950.

Founded Washington Teresa’s home in 1995.

▶ Awards

First winner of Albert Schweitzer prize in 1975

Nobel Peace Prize in 1979

▶ Quotes

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; Do good anyway.

Sister Teresa is called as Mother Teresa.

Mother Teresa was a peace activist who practiced love and peace by loving week people and by loving people having a hard situation

Abraham Lincoln / America

February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865

▶ Career

Registered United States Republican Party in 1856

Elected 16th United States president in 1861

Emancipation Proclamation in 1963

▶ Quotes

A government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Lincoln is one of my favorite and respectable people to me.

He was reared in a poor family. So, he couldn’t finish his school-life. But he became a self-educated lawyer and always stood by weak people and cheered them up.

 

When everybody regarded African-Americans as slave, and when South and North America were in conflict with each other because of the different ideology for slavery, President Lincoln led the civil war to victory and achieved Emancipation.

Peace activist Lincoln lived in a polite and earnest manner.

 

 

And lastly, Peace Activist Mr. Man Hee Lee made the peace agreement in Mindanao, the Philippines!

 

He brought about the cessation of bloody conflicts in the Philippines which had continued for 40 years and he’s leading a private peace movement group now.  

 

I’m really proud that he is a fellow countryman.

I hope he leads Korea’s unification like President Lincoln who led the America’s Unification.

And I want Korea to be a boastful nation that can finally achieve reunification.