The 11th Anniversary of the September 18th HWPL World Peace Summit will take place on 18 September 2025 in Seoul, South Korea, and other locations worldwide. The event will commemorate the 2014 HWPL World Peace Summit and examine the key achievements of the agreements signed that day to establish future plans.
This year’s anniversary will focus on regional events held across the globe to build networks essential to promote and solidify peace, and encourage collaboration to this end. Attendees will have the opportunity to connect and collaborate with individuals from all walks of life across the globe, and engage in discussions to shape and implement strategies for each initiative.
HWPL (Heavenly Culture, World Peace, Restoration of Light) will advocate for the implementation of multidimensional strategies involving governments, intergovernmental organizations, and civil society to resolve conflicts and establish sustainable peace across the globe, at the event.
Its first edition on September 18, 2014 hosted leaders of politics, religion, women’s groups, youth groups, and the media, to discuss conflict resolution, establishment of peace, and mutual cooperation, and sign landmark agreements on building and implementing solid systems for cooperation.
HWPL’s agreements over time have addressed implementing legal instruments for peace, fostering religious harmony, and having peace activities by state actors and citizens. They became the basis of further discussions that have taken place every year on September 18 as signatories continue to exchange strategies for peace.
The Agreement to Propose the Enactment of International Law for the Cessation of Wars and World Peace, signed at the 2014 conference, led to the Declaration of Peace and Cessation of War (hereinafter the DPCW). It reaffirms the major international conventions for peace, outlines methods for resolving modernized conflicts, and underscores the roles of nations and civil society in achieving peace.
It was followed by a citizen-led global campaign, the Legislate Peace (LP) program, which aims at incorporating peace in the legal order to build a global community of coexistence and harmony. Echoing the citizens’ demand for peace as a norm, in which cultural and social rules are shared by all citizens, the LP program is expanding its scope to environment preservation, relief efforts, education, and empowerment of women and youth, among others.
To institutionalize sustainable peace in the rapidly changing global landscape, HWPL will review the accomplishments of the global LP program and develop more systematic, multidimensional, and long-term strategies through the 11th anniversary.
Written by Oral Ofori
Oral Ofori is Founder and Publisher at www.TheAfricanDream.net, a digital storyteller and producer, and also an information and research consultant.
