The Nobel Peace Prize winner was announced today. The Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons won the prize. They are overseeing the destruction of the chemical weapons in Syria.
The gala event that is the Nobel prize gives everyone among the elite the opportunity to come out and pat each other on the back and pretend that they are making a positive difference in the world. That somehow, despite all of the evidence to the contrary, the world is headed for an age of peace and enlightenment. Meanwhile, military and personal violence continue to escalate all over the world. We are told that democracy is the answer. But democracy never ends the cycle of violence. The world has a morality problem. People commit acts of barbaric violence that they have no moral basis to reject. The violence will end when Jesus comes and sets up His kingdom. It is then that the prophet Isaiah tells us;
Isaiah 2:4 He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore.
Until then, the show goes on.
Jeremiah 8:15 We looked for peace, but no good came; for a time of healing, but behold, terror.
13th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Poland: Official Agenda Announced!
"Stand in solidarity for peace -
time to act" is the official motto of the 13th World Summit of
Nobel Peace Laureates which is to take place in Warsaw on 21-23
October 2013. For the first time in its history the event will be
held in Central Europe. Warsaw will host several Nobel Peace Prize
Laureates as well as six thousand other guests from around the world.
The message of "Solidarity",
a driving force behind the peaceful change in Poland and Europe, will
become the point of reference for a debate on global development,
aptly described in the Summit's motto "Stand in Solidarity for
Peace - Time to Act". On the first day of the Summit the Nobel
Peace Prize Laureates will participate in two plenary sessions:
"Stand in Solidarity for Peace and Security" and "A
System of Social Values in the Time of Crisis". Two following
debates are planned for the second day of the Summit: "Unheard
Voices. Inequalities in Social Justice" and "Human Rights:
Old and New Threats". On 23rd of October Peace Prize winners
will talk about problems connected with peace and reconciliation on
following sessions: "Solidarity and Reconciliation: No More
Wars" and "Solidarity of the Youth - Stand up for Peace".
On this day there will also take place the prize-giving ceremony of
the Peace Summit Award 2013.
Among guests who confirmed their
presence there is: the 14th Dalai Lama, Frederik Willem de Klerk,
Betty Williams, Shirin Ebadi, Mohammad Junus, Mikhail Gorbachev and
Lech Wałęsa.
