The Commander in Chief of Citizen Transformation Movement (CFT) Timothy Pagonachi Mtambo on Thursday took centre stage to deliver a talk on peace at the ongoing Peace Summit that is taking place in the city of Seoul in South Korea. Mtambo talk centred on ‘Peace Ideology and Vision for a Peace Movement‘ – A Reflective Comment to a presentation that was made by Dr. Francisco Rojas Aravena, Rector of The University of peace
Mtambo who is also the Patron of Charity group League of transformation Foundation in his opening remarks highlighted The reason why the world need to quest for peace ” We are living in an era where the world is polarised and conflicts are all over ” He went further by arguing that there is necessity of the search for peace amid conflict and great uncertainties with need for more recover spaces of dialogue for consensus cooperation and solidarity while educating new leaders for peace.
Mtambo spoke of the United Nations and its 77 years existence and the new challenges that the organisation still faces. He pinpointed areas such as the existence of a new wave of violent protests, increased corruption, organised crimes, increased support for authoritarian and populist leaders, legal uncertainties for business and investment, migration crises, use of armed forces, the US-China geopolitical conflicts, regional integration paralysis, emergency of boarder tensions, democratic erosions, climate change and others
Mtambo argued that the Weakness of regional coordination has hindered intergovernmental coordination to address the issue of peace, ” The lack of spaces for effective dialogue inhibits opportunities for cooperation, lack of cooperation impedes development of regional public policies against organised crime and new transnational crime. Without cooperation there is no peace, without peace there is no development, without development there is no social justice or equity” said Mtambo
The Peace Summit has brought together 1000 world leaders from the 157 and includes incumbent and former Presidents, Vice Presidents, Prime Ministers, First Lady Of Malawi, Dr Monica Chakwera and former US Secretary of State, Mr Mike Pompeo, former US Speaker Newt Gingrich, President’s Trump special advisor Pastor Paula White and many others.
Malawi benefit from the summit
In a separate Interview , Mtambo clarified the benefits that Malawi will get from its partcipation in the summit. He said Malawi, stands to benefit because Malawi is currently building the Peace and Unity Commission and the entire infrastructure of peace for the country, through the ministry of unity.
“We stand to benefit technically and financially to support our peace and unity efforts. The other benefit is that The Universal Peace Federation has a comprehensive curriculum on Civic and Character Education and Malawi is on an advanced stage in the development of Civic and Character Education curriculum through the ministry of unity and education.”
He said the world has become a global village as such peace in the world is peace everywhere and important for development. “As you have seen the war in Russia and Ukraine has heavily affected us economically, world peace and peace in any country is fundamental for Malawi. We are in a global village” said Mtambo.
