Presenting a women’s perspective on peace, Dr Mahfuza Rahman, executive director, Rashtriya Gramin Vikash Nidhi, expressed the view that parents have a great responsibility to curb violence. She said the woman have a role to play to stop corruption and violence at the household level.
An interactive panel discussion expressed concern over the way in which the level of violence had been growing in the region. Peace making needs to be an organized sort of a movement and for that the mindset of the people which has to be changed. After the panel discussion, in the evening, thousands participated in a candle light procession and followed by peace festival.
Father VM Thomas SDB, director, DBYES, said that we have to think together to make strategies and plans that can take us closer to the reality of peace.