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At the same time, raising public awareness of the basic principles of peace, such as equality, freedom, democracy, and respect for human rights. Active supporters can be the school, the state, the international humanitarian organizations that have the obligation to awaken the peaceful ideals of the youth and push them to actively defend peace, through artistic events, protests, political and social practices.

In all this effort, the role of humanitarian education is considered fundamental, an education imbued with the ideals of classical humanism, which will be embodied and cultivated by teachers, who should become for students bright examples of love and peace. They themselves must experience this love and then transmit it to their students. The manifestation of practical love, the compromise, the respect of the students' opinion, the humility, the lack of selfishness are virtues that must characterize the modern teacher, in order to become a beacon of peace in the schools and in the hearts of the students.

Because peace can only be achieved through the active participation and interest of all members of the society, much more with the participation of young people, who are the most creative and productive unit of our society.

And as the Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) said, "The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace."

Also, our Greek poet Odysseas Elytis, “This is why i write. Because poetry begins where death is robbed of the last word ".

IAMAQ Magazine 3/2020