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	A Peace Message on the Cell Phones an article by Patrick Mulemeri, Coordinator of the Congo Peace Network We have the honor to announce that very soon in September, the Congo Peace Network, will launch its campaign for peace and social dialogue in local communities for peaceful conflict resolution without violence. click on photo to enlarge To this end, a telephone message will be broadcast with the theme " A MESSAGE OF PEACE IN OUR PORTABLES" as an alternative to " BLOOD IN OUR PORTABLES". This will use equipment coming from the mines in the zones of the conflict of the Democratic republic of Congo. You may receive messages in your cellphones calling for the support of peace and social dialogue to solve the potential conflicts in the local communities of the province of Nord Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo. We plan to issue a press release to the attention of all the partners of the Congo Peace Network, 48 hours before the official launch of the telephone message. At present we are working on a partnership with the telecommunication company Vodacom Congo for this purpose. Congo Peace Network is a non profit organization promoting peace and peaceful coexistence, which contributes to build sustainable peace in the respect of human rights in Democratic Republic of the Congo; through specific programs, such as ‘’the peace and nonviolence school’’. The peace and nonviolence school is a strategy of the Congo Peace Network for effective implementation of peaceful civic education. This program is focused on internal causes of conflict and uses the educational sector in order to promote the acceptance of diversity. "Since revenge and hatred are conceived in the human mind, it is in human mind they must be defeated." In the 1986 Seville Declaration adopted by scientists around the world, it is stated that « war is not inevitable, written in the genes. The spirit of violence is not human nature or instinct, but it is indeed a social invention. Therefore, « the authors of war are able to become the authors of peace». This is the motivation of our campaign and the ultimate goal of the school of peace and nonviolence. (Click here for a French version of this article)		DISCUSSION Question(s) related to this article: Can you add to this analysis of the Democratic Republic of the Congo? Thematic forum(s) in which this article is being discussed: GLOBAL MOVEMENT - MOUVEMENT MONDIAL
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