Special Program for World Peace’s Day

Following the coordination carried out by the SPWSC with the organization for Special Program of Peace Day, which consists of the members of the Creative Development Center and other Associations and Institutions of Karaj, on September 27, the special commemoration of the International Peace Day was held in Kowsar Culture Center in Karaj city. This year's motto is respect, security and dignity for everyone.

In the campus of the culture center, there were stands for familiarization of children with associations, institutions and centers active in the field of peace. In each stand, with the presence of representatives of the associations, the goals and activities of each one were introduced to visitors. 

At the beginning of the program, Mr. Tizbir, Director of Creative Growth Center, first presented a description of the World Peace’s Day of and the process of coordinating the ceremony. The keynote speaker, Dr. Nematollah Fazeli, addressed the analysis of the word peace, the reasons for the establishment of a peace’s day, peace in Iran today, and solutions to elimination of the alienation of peoples with the word peace. Later, the children were given the opportunity to speak and play music about Peace issue. Ms. Shohreh Yousefi, a child literature expert was the second speaker of the program. She raised the topic of peaceful education as a subject of her lecture. During her speech, she spoke on issues such as: studying the issue of peace in children's books, the status of peace education to children, studying the status of peacekeeping in schools and providing more effective ways of working. It should be noted that Dr. Fazeli and Ms. Yousefi, were appreciated due to their activities on peace issues among children.