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2. Peace as an absolute and undisputed value Peace is a social, political and personal condition characterized by shared harmony and lack of tension and conflicts. Peace is universally recognized as a value, it can overcome social and religious barriers and prevent conflicts between people, groups, nations, religions. class 5 G

3. Peace and great personalities in XX century Mahatma Gandhi At the end of 1800 in India Mohandas Karamchard Gandhi became the leader of rising movements for independence from England. For Gandhi, civil disobedience represented, with hunger and thirst strike, the culmination of non-violent resistance and he called it "an inalienable right of every citizen," and asserted that "giving up this right means ceasing to be men”. class 5 G

4. Gandhi also insisted on the distinction between the non-violence of the weak, which is to suffer passively and cowardly oppression or be in opposition to it and the mere "passive resistance" and non-violence of the strong. class 5 G

5. Martin lutherking The latter is the Satyagraha, the active and courageous rebellion against injustice, that Gandhi described as "the moral equivalent of war."Martin Luther King was an African-American Baptist clergyman in Alabama, leader of the movement for civil rights of afro-american minority in the U.S.A. class 5 G

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7. He was the youngest Nobel Peace Prize in history, he received it in 1964 when he was only thirty-five. Significant is the speech delivered by King on August 28, 1963 during the march for work and freedom in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, when he spoke several times the famous phrase "I have a dream" which implied the expectation that he cultivated with many other people, the recognition of the equality of every man."True peace is not only the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice" class 5 G

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9. The Declaration on the right of peoples to peace, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly resolution of 12 November 1984, emphasizes that: “ensuring the exercise of the right of peoples to peace demands that the policies of States be directed towards the elimination of the threat of war, particularly nuclear war, the renunciation of the use of force in international relations and the settlement of international disputes by peaceful means on the basis of the Charter of the United Nations.” class 5 G

10. Since the teaching of Mahatma Gandhi people started to understand that peace is not the simple absence of war. Peace has to be considered the presence of conditions of mutual justice among the peoples, which might allow every people to develop itself in conditions of freedom and self-government. class 5 G

11. According to this, peace is much more than the result of agreements among governments or powerful men, as many believe. Peace results from the way a people establishes links with another people, in the full respect of mutual rights and duties, as recognized from the international community. Neither a form of government, nor an ensemble of treaties and international agreements can guarantee peace. class 5 G

12. Peace is guaranteed only from the behaviour and the choices of the individuals that, all together, are the choices and the behaviour of a people.Here comes the necessity of a culture of peace considered as a diffused and conscious knowledge of all the factors that contribute to create conditions of mutual justice among the peoples. class 5 G

13. The concept of a Culture of Peace was formulated by the International Congress on Peace in the Minds of Men that was held in Côte d'Ivoire in 1989. The Congressre commended UNESCO to construct a new vision of peace by developing a peace culture based on the universal values of respect for life, liberty, justice, solidarity, tolerance, human rights and equality between men and women”. class 5 G

14. The United Nations General Assembly approved on 13 September 1999 the resolution 53/243 adopting the Declaration for the Culture of Peace. class 5 G

15. For several countries peace, freedom and human rights are sTIll a dream. class 5 G

16. DEMOCRACY IS BASED ON FREEDOM OF SPEECH class 5 G

17. Aung San SuuKyi is a Burmese opposition politician. In the 1990 general election, Aung San SuuKyi's National League for Democracy party won 59% of the national votes and 81% of the seats in Parliament. She had, however, already been detained under house arrest before the elections. class 5 G

18. She remained under house arrest in Burma for almost 15 of the 21 years from July 20, 1989 until her release on 13 November 2010.Primarily in response to her detention, Aung San Suu Kyi received the Rafto Prize and the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1990 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. class 5 G

19. SET HIM FREE ! HE’S FIGHTING FOR UNIVERSAL VALUES ! class 5 G

20. Liu Xiaobo is a Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human rights activist. He is currently incarcerated as a political prisoner in the PRC.During his 4th prison term, he was awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize, for "his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China." class 5 G

21. He is the fourth person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize while in prison or detention.He is also the first person to be denied the right to have a representative to collect the Nobel prize for him. class 5 G

22. Why the war?? class 5 G

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26. ARE THESE CASUALTiES???? class 5 G

27. No , they are burned lives ! class 5 G

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