'Establish non-violent society for peace'
With a call to establish a non-violent society across the world, Peace and Conflict department at Dhaka University (DU) yesterday observed the International Peace Day.
To mark the day, the department took out a peace procession on the campus where teachers and students of the department took part.
Vice Chancellor Prof SMA Faiz and Ambassador of the Netherlands to Bangladesh Bea M Ten Tusscher led the procession that paraded through different streets on the campus.
The department also organised the sixth Gan-Shohagi lecture at RC Majumder auditorium at the university.
Tusscher delivered the key lecture on 'War, peace and justice: Sharing international experiences from the capital of international justice the Hague' on the occasion.
Tusscher said the primary responsibility for building peace and stimulating sustainable development after conflicts lies with national authorities.
“But at the same time an international trend can be maintained whereby protection makes way for justice,” she said, adding that the trend is illustrated very well by the concept 'Principle of the responsibility to protect' adopted by the United Nations General Assembly as an outcome of the world summit in 2005.
She further said this concept stresses that each individual state has the responsibility to protect its population, but it follows that when a government cannot or does not effectively live up to its responsibility, the international community must act.
Addressing the lecture session as the chief guest, Prof Faiz said all the nations have an obligation to contribute to promoting peace, security and a sustainable environment and fight poverty, disease and hunger.
Sustainable peace depends on the existence of legitimate national authorities, adequate security and equitable distribution of both benefits and burdens and the opportunity for ordinary people to take part in the political processes, he added.
Founder chairman of the department Prof Dalim Chandra Barman said it is impossible to establish worldwide peace in a day or two.
People from all sections of the society have to participate in the process. Only then the social goal can be achieved, he added.
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