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Nobel Peace Foundation honors RP’s people power
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Posted on Apr 09 2001
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has accepted the International Peace Award for the Philippines from Nobel Peace Laureates Foundation which cited the Filipino people for pioneering the phenomenon called People Power as a means for a peaceful change in society.
The award was presented to the President by Msgr. Pierre Marchand, Chairman of the Nobel Peace Laureates Foundation, and Lou Ann Guanzon, President of the Center for Global Non-Violence and Vice President of the Martin Luther King Foundation.
Msgr. Marchand expressed the Foundation’s gratitude to the president, EDSA 1986 heroine former President Corazon C. Aquino, former President Fidel V. Ramos and Manila Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin for being “teachers of love all over the world.”
Inspired by the two peaceful people power revolutions, Msgr. Marchand disclosed that for the first time in its history, all the Nobel Peace Laureates signed one single document appealing to all governments worldwide to allow the teaching of non-violence in every educational institution to the children.
The International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World 2001-2010 was also launched as a tribute to the Philippines by the United Nations.
Ms. Guanzon, meanwhile, expressed hope that the People Power introduced by the Filipino people 15 years ago and shown again this year would continue to inspire world leaders and peace-loving citizens to change the world through bloodless and non-violent means.
