The academicians, writers and intellectuals have underscored the need for adopting humility, tolerance and patience in behaviour as tools to establish a peaceful society. The experts expressed their views over the issue at a 3-day seminar titled 'Practical and Theoretical Review of Aspects of Peace and Conflict in Local and Global Perspectives' organized in University of Sindh Jamshoro on Thursday.
The event was organized by Office of Research, Innovation and Commercialization (OREC) of the SU, Higher Education Commission and Shamsul Ulema Mirza Kalich Beg Chair. Professor Dr Iqbal Ahmed Panhwar while addressing the first session titled 'peace and economy' said peace was a prerequisite for the economic development. "We have to protect the future of our posterity and for which we need to work in unison with the government to root out violence and crime for a peaceful society," he said.
He praised the late poet and intellectual Mirza Kalich Beg saying that the person left seminal influences on the realms of his work. Panhwar encouraged the youth to read the works of Beg and try to follow his ideas for a peaceful existence. Speaking at the second session 'A Study of Peace and Conflict' Dr Moonis Ayaz of Karachi University said the social and economic progress remained a reverie without peace.
He underlined the need for cultivating friendly relations among the countries. "Peace is not a piece of cake which can be served on a silver platter. There is ought to be a struggle to attain this objective," he contended. The scholar supported the idea of establishing peaceful relations by all countries and opting the path of peaceful dispute resolution over provoking conflicts.
The young activist Alamgir Khan who had been struggling to highlight and get resolved the civic issues in Karachi spoke in the third session and told that his non-governmental organization was working to change minds in the country. "FixIt is a platform through which the youth is instilled with new ideas and which helps resolves many local issues," he said.
Khan questioned why the pace of development appeared slower in the country despite the successful operation against terrorist in Pakistan. He credited his organization FixIt for raising the issue of solid waste management in Karachi which suffered from heaps of garbage in every other corner of the city during last 10 years. He informed that more than 1,000 uncovered manholes in Karachi had been covered after he launched a campaign in that regard.