Saturday, December 13, 2014

His Holiness the Dalai Lama attends 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates

When His Holiness the Dalai Lama arrived early at the venue of the 14th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, the Auditorium Parco della Musica, this morning, he found that many of his fellow laureates were yet to come.
He met first with the Mayor of Rome, Ignazio Marino, and then greeted old friends like Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi and Mairead Maguire and new friends like Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman as they arrived.

In the auditorium, the Mayor of Rome pointed out that this meeting was dedicated to the memory of Nelson Mandela, who, he recalled, was made an honorary citizen of Rome in 1987, while he was still imprisoned. He quoted Mandela’s saying, “A winner is simply a dreamer who never gave up.” Despite years of suffering, Mandela was not resentful, instead he advised, “The time for healing has come.”

The Mayor, Prof Marino, urged those attending the summit to aim for the globalization of human rights, ensuring that the younger generation will be naturally committed to working for peace. He asked everyone present also to remember this year’s laureates, Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi. He repeated Nelson Mandela’s maxim, “Freedom without peace is not true freedom.”

Co-chair of the summit and former Mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, made some remarks before Mairead Maguire came to the lectern on behalf of the assembled Peace Laureates. She said that peace is a human right for everyone and that it is a necessary precondition of all the other human rights. She clarified that everyone has a right not to be killed and a responsibility not to kill. She expressed a wish to address a message to His Holiness the Pope to replace the theory of ‘a just war’ with a theory of peace, quoting His Holiness the Dalai Lama as saying that violence is always wrong and never justified.

Prof David Ives, Executive Director of Albert Schweitzer Institute told the gathering that although the proposed meeting in Capetown had been cancelled, the Institute had taken a group of students there to engage in a dialogue about diversity within global unity. He said that in so doing they had stood by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He invited student representatives to report some of their experiences................http://tibet.net/2014/12/13/his-holiness-the-dalai-lama-attends-14th-world-summit-of-nobel-peace-laureates/

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