Hammurabi Human Rights Organization Among the World
Peacemakers
On this occasion of the first day of the New Year, I wish you a happy New year full of
joy, peace and prosperity
Let me greet you in Aramaic to say: Shlama Amkhon: meaning peace be with you!
Let's see what peace represents
The many opportunities to talk about peace that one desires as the first necessity that the
world must reach to acquire at the first opportunity, indicate the utmost importance of world
peace in the life of every individual on the planet. Because without peace, it is impossible to live
in peace in any aspect of life.
Peace here does not only mean the absence of war and the cessation of violence, but peace
means the arrival and becoming of man on the path of light to understanding and realizing the
meaning of the term true peace by living in it. It is thus more than just a term. Peace is like the
rays of the sun, it cannot be divided or contained. It becomes a source or environment that
allows man to see clearly and enjoy the ability to make sound judgments and interact with that
light that supports full awareness of human behavior and destiny. Because in peace, long-term
or permanent solutions can be reached in the process of establishing peace and stability. We
can also say that peace is a basic human right, and through it, as a right, room is made for
supporting the achievement of development efforts and correcting the paths of legal
frameworks with the aim of achieving justice and equality away from pressures that can be
exerted by influential people or parties in societies, especially during periods of conflict. Thus,
in peaceful conditions, dignity can be preserved, human rights can be protected and developed,
and interaction with nature as well as with scientific and technological development. Also,
during peace, the constants of the universe can be respected as they are, while retaining the
right, even the duty, to develop its variables, with the aim of improving the standard of living
and not condemning it to distortion and execution. Every person, especially those in a position
of public responsibility, must harness all available capabilities to serve the purpose of avoiding
harm to the safety of life, and even enhance peace of mind with peace of conscience, in which
peace has an internal dimension that illuminates the conscience and heart of man before being
merely an aspect of human behavior or a certain state of calm. In this sense, achieving peace
means achieving balance and reconciliation within man and what is deeper within man and
between others, in addition to respecting everything available for the continuity of his life,
effectively respecting what exists with a spirit of responsibility. This very matter, that is,
respecting the public good, leads to economic prosperity and basic freedom, making man
capable of becoming a tool for peacemaking through dialogue and understanding to reject
violence, war crimes and all forms of negative discrimination. Yes, because peace is made in
thought and conscience first, and it is a demand of the heart and will of everyone who longs for
a dignified and better life, to preserve the sublimity of human value instead of detracting from
his dignity by issuing certain judgments against him or exchanging him for any kind of material
for reasons of racism or any other negative discrimination.
We should not be afraid to use all means to achieve the necessity of peace, including dialogue.
Because through this work, aggression and greed are removed, conflict is eliminated, and
thought is moderated from violent extremism. As a result, human brotherhood emerges and a
conviction is born of positive exchange and acceptance of the other as he is. Thus, a person can
lead peacemaking processes to become the light that dispels darkness, to open the horizon of
cooperation and exchange at all levels: personal, collective, national, and then international.
Thus, greed, aggression, hatred, and negative intentions are eliminated. Respect for human
rights, including the right to peace, is imposed among all, by disseminating its principles and
training on the means of making it based on achieving justice and balance in positions, far from
distorting the true meaning of peace, and far from enticing the simpletons into conflicts by
teaching them what is only related to political goals in the interest of violent groups that do not
believe in the importance of human dignity and the right to life.
There is no individual who does not want or does not desire to live in peace. Because peace is
the dream of every conscientious person on earth. Practically, one of the means of supporting
peace in daily life is the ability to make a decent life available for people by providing services
such as electricity, potable water and all infrastructure such as rebuilding roads and preserving
free rainwater that is wasted without any initiative to get used to storing it on the one hand
and avoiding its flooding in homes due to the lack of a sewage system that drains rainwater into
underground tanks. Municipal, water and sewage officials continue to ignore any complaints in
a careless manner and do not stand up to the water shortage due to climate changes that have
begun to represent one of the biggest crimes of mass murder that human life is exposed to,
while water is one of the mandatory requirements of life and one of the most basic rights
required for the continuity of human life. While two days ago in a humanitarian field work, we
met children, women and entire families in areas adjacent to Baghdad whose villages do not
have sources of potable water for drinking or for daily uses or even for washing the faces of
Iraqi children who complain of diseases, poverty and lack of decent housing in an unforgivable
manner! While they are only a few meters away from the Tigris River watercourses and
tributaries! As for the officials in the relevant departments and the provincial council, they do
not care about these people except during election campaigns, where they easily buy their
consciences to get their votes in exchange for no services provided!
Since the last century and until today, the issue of electricity and water scarcity has become
unbearable in many important cities and villages such as Erbil, where Ankawa suffers from the
lack of any improvement in the electricity current. While those who were forcibly displaced
from Mosul, as well as the owner of the property from minorities (most of whom do not have a
job opportunity there), are flayed by the monthly electricity lists, while the state of the
electricity current continues to be worse than traffic lights, as negative calls against those
responsible for it increase. Note that Erbil has been semi-independent since 1991!! Is it
reasonable that the officials there have not been able to solve this ongoing crisis during 34
years?! Or rather, they are creating it in order to link the poor to their political goals and
ambitions? And so on in many areas of Baghdad and other provinces.
Without a doubt, this is one example of the elimination of peacemaking tools in order to ensure
poverty and conflict between citizens and authorities, thus excluding civil peace.
With all of the above, peacemaking can be a dynamic process of ending conflict through
negotiation or mediation, despite the fragility of peace due to its instability, because the
sources of conflict are rarely resolved or eliminated entirely. Since conflict is inherent in the
human condition, the quest for peace is particularly strong in times of violent conflict. However,
the desire to accommodate the perpetrators of violence without resolving the sources of
conflict—sometimes called “peace at any cost”—can lead to greater conflict later. Therefore, it
is important to expedite support for mechanisms for initiatives that come with solutions to
impose global peace, including the South Korean initiative: The Declaration of Peace and
Cessation of War (DPCW), which is eagerly awaiting submission to the United Nations with the
aim of adopting it and then presenting it for ratification by the countries of the world, so that it
may later become an international means in the service of imposing sustainable peace in the
world.
We hope that, after the United Nations adopts the text of the "Declaration of Peace and
Cessation of War", it deserves the ratification of all countries of the world, including Iraq, as the
aforementioned declaration deserves global adoption, because it already enjoys the support of
millions of women and men around the world.
As for the efforts made by our partner the International Women's Peace Group (IWPG) in
working to promote the aforementioned declaration and urging the United Nations to ratify it,
they are honorable efforts. Through our membership in it and as its peace ambassador, we are
keen to introduce the aforementioned declaration in Iraq, and we urge the Iraqi authorities to
ratify it after it is adopted by the United Nations in the future. Because we in Iraq are the
country most in need of comprehensive and lasting peace and weapons Extinguished!
The text of the DPCW Declaration consists of 10 articles and 38 clauses, aiming to end all wars
and create a sustainable environment for lasting peace.
This initiative began in South Korea with the initiative of a foundation, a non-governmental
organization: (Heavenly Culture World Peace Restoration of Light, (HWPL(
The Peace and International Law Committee presented its expertise and vision on each article
and clause of the declaration and drafted the document under the supervision of President Lee,
Chairman of HWPL. As we mentioned, the document is in attempts to raise it to the hands of
the United Nations.
The goal of this very important declaration is to place the countries of the world before their
responsibilities towards their peoples and the difficult fate left by wars.
We conclude in solidarity with the declaration of His Holiness Pope Francis of the New Year
2025 as a year of hope for peace in the world, hoping that this year of hope will be a bearer of
peace and a guardian of the good of Iraqis and that through diplomatic means, their usurped
rights will be restored, and the means of violence and exploitation will be completely excluded
by silencing weapons and favoring stability and prosperity to promote lasting peace in Iraq and
the world.
Pascale Isho (Warda)
Ambassador of Peace for the International Women's Peace Group ( IWPG )
Chairperson of the Hammurabi Human Rights Organization
Former Minister of Migration and Displacement
1-1-2025 Baghdad-Iraq.
