Doctoral Student of PAI FITK Study Program Becomes Speaker at the 2019 International Day of Peace

Zia, Ziadatul Husnah's nickname, a doctoral student of the PAI FITK UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, who had the opportunity and was trusted by the Asian Muslim Action Networks (AMAN) Indonesia to be a resource person at a seminar with the theme International Day of Peace 2019 #Eliminates HatredBangunPeace as well as Declaration Peace for Yogyakarta Students and Students in collaboration with the Faculty of Sharia and Law of UIN Sunan Kalijaga. This event was held at Prof Soenaryo Building, Convention Hall, 1st floor, on Monday, 23 September 2019.

Apart from Zia, there were three resource persons with quite diverse activity backgrounds; Maskur Hasan from AMAN Indonesia spoke more about youth and peace. Yunan Helmi, as CEO of President Musikindo, further develops the peace mission by loving different things, one of which is through songs of tolerance, diversity in differences, and so on. Rustiningsih Dian Puspitasarithe, Chief Editor of the Press Teras UAJY, focused on using the right and wise media, especially for millennials. Meanwhile, Zia, apart from being a doctoral student at PAI FITK, is also the director of the Yogyakarta Wisdom House Foundation, putting more emphasis on Education, Bringing Peace to Life to make Indonesia and the world more peaceful, starting with oneself.

According to Zia, "Peace Education is a process of promoting the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values ​​necessary to bring about behavioral change that will enable children, youth and adults to prevent conflict and violence both openly and structurally; resolve conflicts peacefully; and create conditions conducive to peace, both at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, inter-group, national and international levels," he stressed in delivering material on Living Peace Education in the seminar.

"The value of peace must start from yourself, don't expect to be able to spread peace if you don't have a sense and value of peace, therefore, we must be able to become Positive Energy Generators and Positive Energy Transmitters for Indonesia and for the World," reflections what Zia said before closing. Finally, Zia made the atmosphere of the building warmer with the chants "Knowing the Peace, Feeling the Peace, Doing the Peace, then Hooray"; these words were the closing chants in Zia's session delivering the material.

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