Global Peace Festival set in Negros Oriental in October

DUMAGUETE CITY, Oct. 3 (PNA) – Some 10,000 participants from all over the Visayas are expected to attend the Global Peace Festival on October 21 and 22 here during the annual Buglasan Festival of Festivals.

Pedro Dibdib, director of the Universal Peace Federation-World Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (UPF-W-CARP) local chapter, said the Global Peace Festival aims to find solutions on how to achieve lasting peace.

The UPF is a non-government organization (NGO) in special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, with the W-CARP, comprising 194 founding nations, as its international partner, Dibdib said.

He explained that the UPF formally took off in the country in 2006 and has since been holding activities such as lectures and leadership seminars in quest for peace, while it also embarks on other activities such as clean-up drives, tree-planting, and visits to orphanages.

A one-day leadership conference was held last Saturday here and was attended by representatives from the youth sector, the academe, local officials, the police and the Philippine Army, among others.

The conference bannered the theme “The Need for Vision and Leadership at a time of global Crisis: Building Partnerships among Governments, Faith-Based Organizations and NGO’s towards the realization of One Family Under God”.

The Global Peace Festival on Oct. 22 shall take place simultaneously in 12 venues in the country, said Dibdib.

He expressed appreciation to Negros Oriental Governor Emilio Macias II for including the activity as part of the Buglasan Festivities.