Acholi leaders to build peace center
May 18, 2004
THE Acholi Religious Leaders’ Peace Initiative (ARLPI) has said it plans to use the 20m Japanese yen (over sh380m) received from the Niwano Peace Award to build a peace centre in Gulu district.
By Milton Olupot
THE Acholi Religious Leaders’ Peace Initiative (ARLPI) has said it plans to use the 20m Japanese yen (over sh380m) received from the Niwano Peace Award to build a peace centre in Gulu district.
The peace centre will be dedicated to training in peace education, research and advocacy in conflict resolution and other peace related issues.
“In this way we will be promoting peace in Uganda, Africa and in the world at large,†retired Bishop Macleord Baker Ochola told a press conference at the Regency Hotel in Namirembe yesterday.
The annual peace award founded by a Japanese, Nikkyo Niwano in 1978, is given to pro-peace individuals and organisations.
It is based on the philosophy of promoting inter-religious cooperation and world peace.
The award, comprising a certificate written in English and Japanese and a silver medal, were displayed before the press by the ARLPI team led by Ochola.
This was the first time an African organisation was awarded by the Japan-based Niwano Foundation.
Archbishop John Baptist Odama, the ARLPI chairperson, led a team including Bishop Nelson Onono-Onweng, the Rev. Julius Orach and Sheik Musa Khelil to receive the award in Japan last week.
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THE Acholi Religious Leaders’ Peace Initiative (ARLPI) has said it plans to use the 20m Japanese yen (over sh380m) received from the Niwano Peace Award to build a peace centre in Gulu district.
The peace centre will be dedicated to training in peace education, research and advocacy in conflict resolution and other peace related issues.
“In this way we will be promoting peace in Uganda, Africa and in the world at large,†retired Bishop Macleord Baker Ochola told a press conference at the Regency Hotel in Namirembe yesterday.
The annual peace award founded by a Japanese, Nikkyo Niwano in 1978, is given to pro-peace individuals and organisations.
It is based on the philosophy of promoting inter-religious cooperation and world peace.
The award, comprising a certificate written in English and Japanese and a silver medal, were displayed before the press by the ARLPI team led by Ochola.
This was the first time an African organisation was awarded by the Japan-based Niwano Foundation.
Archbishop John Baptist Odama, the ARLPI chairperson, led a team including Bishop Nelson Onono-Onweng, the Rev. Julius Orach and Sheik Musa Khelil to receive the award in Japan last week.
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