World Peace Mission Organization (WPMO) founded on 21st September 2003 in Karachi & established its Secretariat 10th December 2003 by the group of peace lovers of 9 countries (Pakistan, Iran, Australia, UK, Canada, Sri Lanka, India, UAE, USA) based in Pakistan with its branches at UAE, Canada and UK to engage individuals in non-violent action for peace and justice throughout the world.
Background:
Today, peace-movement NGOs are building new coalitions to work for the abolition of nuclear weapons by the year 2000, as a step toward general disarmament. Their work is substantially amplified by those scientists and professionals whose work is focused on peace and disarmament. The Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs (named for the place in Canada where the group first met in the 1950s) is the oldest and most prestigious group of scientists trying to develop ways of controlling militarism; it has made notable contributions to each of the more limited arms control agreements that have been achieved so far. The International Association of Physicians for Prevention of Nuclear War, the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms, Economists Against the Arms Race, and the new Center for Economic Conversion (in Bonn, Germany) are resource organizations invaluable to the work of peace activists. The International Peace Research Association has played a special role in recent decades in providing policy-oriented research on peace processes and in developing peace-studies programs in universities around the world to train student generations in nonmilitary approaches to international and civil conflicts.
A new set of professional organizations focused on practitioner skills of conflict resolution, mediation, and reconciliation are just beginning to form international NGO networks and to establish peace-building training centers on each continent. Another important development of recent decades has been the creation of NGOs to maintain peace teams on the Gandhian model of the Shanti Sena ("Peace Army"). Peace Brigades International has been the pioneer, and many secular and faith-based NGOs now support their own peace teams.
Women's organizations are an important part of the peace movement. Recent examples include the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's "Great Peace Journey" to heads of state around the world; the women's peace camps established at military bases such as Greenham Common in England; the Women for a Meaningful Summit Group that permits no "big power" summit to take place unquestioned; and the relatively new WEDO, the Women's Environment and Development Organization.
The series of U.N. women's conferences is slowly creating a general awareness of the need for the knowledge, skills, and competence of women in the conflict-ridden arena of public decision-making. The international women's movement has also raised public consciousness about the relationship between violence against women, in homes and in communities, and war itself.
Children and youth are all too often ignored in peace movement activity, but their own initiatives are beginning to have public impact; the Voice of Children and Rescue Mission Planet Earth are two such organizations. At the 1995 World Summit of Children in San Francisco, young delegates drafted an impressive proposal for a U.N. Youth Assembly. This proposal is still under consideration in the U.N. system.
The environmental movement's close relationship to the peace movement and the concept of peace culture is evident in the Earth Charter initiative, developed since the U.N. Conference on the Environment at Rio. A document to be signed by peoples everywhere (to be accepted, it is hoped, by the U.N. General Assembly in 2000), it spells out a commitment of humanity to exist in peace with all living things -- living sustainably, sharing resources equitably, and resolving conflicts nonviolently. The Earth Charter also gives a special role to the "ten thousand societies" -- ethnic, racial, and cultural-identity groups that straddle national borders -- in the creation of a culture of peace, drawing on their many time-tested but unrecognized ways of settling disputes peacefully. Overlapping with these groups are the many thousands of grassroots organizations that apply their resources and ingenuity to the creative resolution of local environmental, economic, and social crises. The Chipko "hugging the trees" movement is an example of how such nonviolent action can work -- in this case saving forests from destruction that would also impoverish local populations. The structural violence of a globalized economy run by megacorporations can be countered nonviolently through local self-help organs, such as the Grameen Bank that assists in pooling local resources to empower the productive capacity of villagers.
All of these movements are helping to create an interconnected but diverse mosaic of peaceful life ways and a new sense of planetary identity in opposition to the global military system that sucks up common resources to maintain the dominion of powerful states and divides the rich from the poor.
Sometimes you have to fight for freedom. Sometimes you have to fight to defend and protect. Sometimes, in the very worst of times, you have to kill to survive. But you can’t fight for Peace. You can’t make a clean cut with a dirty knife. You don’t dirty to make something clean. You clean to make something clean. If you want peace you have to be peace. Our freedom gives us the ability to chose to live in peace. When we lose our freedom we lose our peace. When we give up peace in a free society then we have abdicated our responsibility as free people. When we chose war, violence, invasion and occupation of another’s land and support those who do; we are not seeking peace.
VISION:
The vision of the WORLD PEACE MISSION ORGANIZATION is a world at peace – a peace that is a function of communication, friendships, and productive relationships
We can make peace around the world tomorrow if we want to.
Do we want to? Peace must be more profitable to us than war.
Instead of calling ‘life’ and the sacrifice of life ‘price-less’ we need to start calling it ‘expensive and pricey’.
Every life is worth more than any amount of money, gold, silver or diamonds, or oil. Let us not bring another child into the world and offer it to the god of war.
