Christabel Addo/Portia Addo, GNA
Accra, Dec. 12, GNA – The Centre of Awareness (COA) Global Peace Mission (GPM), a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), would, on December 19, hold its maiden Public Lecture on: “Targeting Leadership of the World to Achieve Global Peace”.
The event, which would be held in Accra, would serve as a platform for the official launching of the Global Peace Mission International, as a project to spearhead advocacy for addressing world peace in a holistic manner.
Dr Samuel Ato Duncan, the Executive President of the COA-GPM, addressing the media and other stakeholders in Accra on Wednesday prior to the event, said the programme would start with a Peace March with personnel from the Security Services, Students and Civil Society Organisations among others, from the Independence Square to the Accra International Conference Centre.
He said President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has accepted to deliver the keynote address and launch the COA-GPM.
Dr Duncan said the problems facing the world currently were as a result of the poor and inefficient skills and abilities of persons in leadership, which had evolved over decades, giving birth to the present breakdown of social morality and cultural values.
He explained that although there were a number of local and international organisations pursuing similar a course to finding a solution to the menace, their efforts had failed to tackle the core causes, which centred on poor and ineffective leadership.
He, however, said ensuring peace would require more than ensuring the absence of war alone, but rather working hard to achieve the total eradication of the widespread of the global disease burden, with their adverse consequences on populations.
Dr Duncan said the lecture would provide major enlightenment on how the problems could be addressed and strategize for attaining the desired results.
He said his outfit would, during the event, demonstrate to the entire world its breakthrough as the first institution to have a potential cure for HIV and AIDS, which had been possible after several years of research and testing, to the benefit of both Ghana and the world as a whole.
“We are a result oriented institution and we are seeking to get results because we are interested in achieving goals and would be greatly involving the youth as well because the mission cannot be achieved just in a day but might take two to three years, or a generational period to achieve the needed change,” he said.
He appealed to the media to enhance publicity on the event to whip the interest of the public to attend, saying all the representatives of the various foreign Embassies in Ghana, as well as the UN Systems, traditional rulers, religious leaders, heads of institutions, civil society groups and students had been invited to join hands in developing a comprehensive advocacy for the Global Peace Mission project.
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