The document discusses the concept of sustainable peace and social harmony as essential for community development and stability. It emphasizes methods such as mutual understanding, conflict management, and education to foster peaceful interactions among citizens, particularly in post-conflict settings like Sri Lanka. The role of various stakeholders, including government, media, and educational institutions, is highlighted in promoting a culture of peace and retaining long-term harmony.

1. SUSTAINABLE PEACE
PROCESS
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2. SOCIAL HARMONY
Social harmony is peaceful interaction of human
dynamics among members of a social group or
groups. Basic survival and subsistence families or
complex societies develop and thrive on some
form of social harmony.
Survival is enhanced by productive exchanges of
labor and production with divisions of labor
increasing the benefits of social harmony.
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3. Mutual understanding,
progressive positive negotiations,
dialogue instead of debate,
Sustainable peace process,
participation of the grass root level society in the peace process,
cultivating a "Culture of peace",
 reconciliation,
conflict management.
Activity based session to enhance and build social harmony.
Peace building is a term describing outside interventions that are designed to prevent the start or
resumption of violent conflict within a nation by creating a sustainable peace. Peace building activities
address the root causes or potential causes of violence, create a societal expectation for peaceful conflict
resolution and stabilize society politically and socioeconomically. In 2007, the UN Secretary-General's
Policy Committee defined peace building as follows: "Peace building involves a range of measures
targeted to reduce the risk of lapsing or relapsing into conflict by strengthening national capacities at all
levels for conflict management, and to lay the foundations for sustainable peace and development. Peace
building strategies must be coherent and tailored to specific needs of the country concerned, based on
national ownership, and should comprise a carefully prioritized, sequenced, and therefore relatively
narrow set of activities aimed at achieving the above objectives
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4. is a state of harmony characterized by the
lack of violent conflict and
the freedom from fear of violence. Commonly
understood as the absence of hostility,
Important:
peacetime is not only the absence of war or violent
conflict, but also the presence of positive and respectful
cultural and economic relationships.
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5. Sustainable : continue or be continued for a long
time
Peace : Refer the previous slide
Process : a series of things that are done in
order to achieve a particular result ,
result is peace
Peace Process : a series of talks and
agreements designed to end war or
violence between two groups
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6. The UN Peace building Commission works in Burundi, Central
African Republic, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia and Sierra
Leone[29] and the UN Peace building Fund funds projects in in
Burundi, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire,
the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Guinea Bissau,
Guatemala, Haiti, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Liberia, Nepal,
Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, South Sudan, Timor-
Leste and Uganda.[30] Other UN organizations are working in Haiti
(MINUSTAH),[31] Lebanon, Afghanistan, Kosovo and Iraq.
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7. Build Social harmony
Conflict management
Build cultural relationships
Grow-up mutual understanding
Avoid hostility
Change Attitudes
Reduce gap among nations
Equalize all citizens
Proper Education since childhood
Teach to stop hostility thinking
Stop spreading hostility things
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8. •Past : All the Sri Lankans had faced to the war within past 30 years.
*Faced to so many difficulties
*Fear for death
*No trustworthy future
*Afraid to travel
*Difficult to concentrate on anything
*Failure at studies
•Present : Now there are no any war or conflicts here.
*Live without fear and freely
*Nobody likes to war or conflicts
*Everybody likes to live peacefully
*Everybody needs to be equalized without neglecting
*Everybody likes to live as Sri Lankans not as any
•Future : No need of any war or conflict again
*Change attitudes
*Proper education from childhood
*Peace and harmony among all the citizens
*Clear political environment W.I.D.Perera - 2010/ICT/78
This is a very valuable and reasonable topic for Sri Lankans.

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Should reduce the sources which will be reasons for a war.
Should change attitudes
Should increase mutual understanding
Should establish projects to increase the social harmony
Should reduce the cultural gap

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As teachers, Lectures : Teach to change attitudes since childhood
Teach to control anger
Stop speaking aggressive things in front of students
Act as a peace ambassador
As the government : establish a clear political environment
treat equally to every citizen
Stop spreading aggressive things
work for the country and to increase the peace
start projects for sustainable peace process
As The mass media : telecast or broadcast peaceful ideas, events
stop telecasting aggressive, hostility things, news
always show the truth with correct information
As a women: as a mother she can change attitudes since birth
increase the peaceful environment in the family

11. As the University students : Lets start sustainable peace process
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In universities, there are students from all nationalities. It is very easy convey
the peace message among all the citizens through them.
Here, Our campus is an ideal place to start sustainable peace process.
We stay in together at the hostels. So we can understand each other
very well and we can learn about different cultures. It is increasing mutual
understanding.
The steps we can take :
• Batch trips (Increasing brotherhood, understanding, friendship )
• Cultural events (New year Function, Christmas day, Deepavali)
• Organizing sport events , get together functions
• Discussions
• Helping each other when in need
• Projects

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