Manila- Pres Hyun Jin Moon of the Universal Peace Fedaration and president of the Service for Peace International arrives in Manila. Together with him is a well-known peace advocate Dr. Martin Luther King III who will also speak in the Global Peace Festival main event at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila on December 12, 2007.The peace federation which has several affiliate groups in the Philippines launched yesterday the International Leadership Conference (ILC) at Manila Hotel with former Senator Joey Lina who scholarly talked on good governance. Together with him were Dr. Michael G. Zablan and Dr. Edgar Tarnate who developed their papers on a model barangay that fit the audience of barangay chairmen, mayors, councilors and community leaders. The gala conference was later hosted during the day by the UPF chairman Dr. Hyun Jin Moon.
Simultaneous with the ILC conference, a separate International Professors' Educational Conference or IPEC also started convening yesterday with hundreds of teachers, professors and educators from various colleges and universities in the country and abroad. Dr. Salvador of TUP hosted the educators together with several DepEd and CHED directors.
Towards Quirino grandstand in Manila, thousands of families, students, government, non-govenrment and religious leaders, TV and sports personalities and other peace advocates are marching in a parade that features the cross-cultural families and communities depecting ideals of one family under God which also serves as the theme of the main event.
The president of the Philippines Pres. Gloria Arroyo, and the Speaker of the House Jose de Venecia are expected to grace the affair after the peace parade and join Dr. King and Pres Hyun Jin Moon in giving their keynote address.
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