Nuaman Ishfaq Mughal,
Istanbul: Pakistani youth-led organisation Global Peace Chain organised Global Peace Summit Turkey’21 in Istanbul, Turkey in which 110 delegates from over 60 countries participated. The summit offered plethora of sessions ranging from the main stage, impacts presentation sessions,diplomatic and policymakers panel talks, social and innovation accelerator challenge. The summit also highlighted cross-cultural exchange, global friendship, self-exploration, leadership development and youth empowerment. The vast array of sessions allowed participants to broaden their horizon and to showcase their talent.
While opening the event officially, Keynote speeches were delivered by Mr.Kamran Zafar (Founder) and Mr.Muhammad Ahmad (Co-Founder) Global Peace Chain where both executives admired the participation of youth at the forum despite of several challenges created by Covid19. The executives shared that Global Peace Summit would act as a forum where youth would emerge as actionable individuals to combat violent extremism, islamophobia, injustice and violence.
The event was also joined by bunch of high officials and subjects’ experts including Danish Mehmood, Deputy Consulate General of Pakistan, Ms. Isabell, Ahsan Hamid Durrani and Barrister Ali Tahir who organised other informative sessions.
At the end of final day, delegates chosen to wear cultural attires to depict cultural harmony, respect and celebrate diversity.
