The Director of Peace, Security, and Conflict Prevention to the United Nations Association of Africa (UNAA) Ambassador Victor Asije has called on world women leaders, especially presidents, prime ministers, ministers, and others to be more motherly in advancing the urgently, much needed world peace.
Asije, who made the appeal in a message to mark this year’s International Women’s Day, also called on national, state, provincial, local, and country first ladies to become more motherly in saving the world from another war.
The global peace advocate also enjoined women in United Nations agencies, public and private organisations, religious organisations, national and international businesses, international relations and diplomacy, communities, and other engagements to join in the currently needed “peace evangelism”.
“As the world today celebrates the International Women’s Day, my best gift to you all highly respectable, adorable, gifted ,productive, peace-loving, and peaceable women, is to appeal to you all, to begin to motherly use your positions, contacts, connections, platforms,and engagements for strengthening world peace!.
“As woman president, prime minister, minister, house speaker,governor, first lady, professional, business owner, chief executive officer,community leader, and others, you should urgently recommit to making the world peaceable for all humanity.
“Let’s not forget in a hurry, the excruciating agonies, wanton killings and deaths of promising million lives, destruction of property worth trillions of dollars, and social, economic, and political destabilization that have been recorded in historical archives due to past national, regional conflicts, crisis, and world wars .” he said.
Asije, who described women as go-getters, and achievers of what they were committed to, added that women had the potentialities for making the world peaceable.
The Ambassador said that it was vitally important for women across the world, to always know that God created them beautifully, and wonderfully to be enviable agents of social, economic, political development in their communities, organisations, nations, and the world.
The UNAA Director of Peace, Security, and Conflict Prevention noted that though, there were pockets of conflicts and crisis in parts of world, the non-violent involvement of women in advocating for peace globally ,would “greatly” help in making the world a better place for all.
According to him, what the world needs, most urgently, is an unending understanding, compassion, and peaceful coexistence between different nationalities and religions.
The Ambassador enjoined women to, non-violently, endeavour to always appeal to the emotions of parents, young men, and women in their immediate environment on the need for them stop being used for heightening misunderstanding, tensions, conflicts, and crisis for political, and religious reasons globally.
The global peace advocate also cautioned different nationalities against putting themselves in harm’s way, adding that it was more noble for peoples of the world to live purposefully, meaningfully, mutually,and peaceably at all times.
Asije, who said that peace was currently not optional for the world, commended world leaders who had been working tirelessly to ensure world peace.
“As much as I would like to, sincerely, express my sincerest appreciation to US President Donald Trump, and other world leaders who have been working to ensure world peace, the world cannot, and should not continue to lose precious lives and resources to these preventable and avoidable conflicts, crisis, and vulnerability to war.
“As enlightened,civilized, and globally interconnected, and interdependent women, and especially mothers, I am convinced,and optimistic that as the world honours you all, today, one promise you should make to God Almighty and the world,is to begin to motherly speak, and encourage peace in your homes, neighborhood , communities, organisations, nations, and everywhere you go in the world!.
“We all should, and must concernedly, selflessly, redouble our efforts and commitments to preaching peace! peace! and peace! everywhere we find ourselves!”.he said.
Asije, also the International Society of Diplomats(ISD) Special Emissary on Media to Nigeria, also urged local, national, and international media to begin to do more of “engineering of consent” news report, features, opinion polls, analysis,and documentaries for promoting the current much needed world peace.
The Ambassador said that it was imperative, especially for women journalists, to know that the media was not only the fourth estate of the realm, but a force to be reckoned with in addressing national, and global challenges.
“As women managing editors, editors, and correspondents, whether as freelancers, there is growing expectations from from you from those, who are sincerely concerned about the attainment of global peace, right now!.
“No doubt, you all have been quite dutiful in your assignments, but I will like to humbly, and respectfully appeal to you all female media practitioners, to be more involved in peace journalism.
“As women and female journalists, the world is looking to you all, to also be motherly in saving the world from more conflicts, crisis, and any likely world war.” Asije said.