Uneven impacts of globalization, greed, injustice, and economic deprivation often provide the context within which violence becomes an instrument of resolving differences, frustration, and the sense of powerlessness.

The presence of religion itself is not the primary cause of violence, yet when mishandled and interpreted mistakenly, can be used to create havoc and division among people.  The flip side to this is that within religion also lies the solution to violence, in so far as their followers are able to understand and utilize the values within it.

We believe that a peaceful world cannot be fully achieved as long as we cannot eliminate inequality and injustice, exploitation, extremism, intolerance, discrimination, defamation, and all form of violence including the occurrence of armed conflict within and between states, genocide, repression and other forms of human rights abuses, terrorism, aggression, and other acts that degrade human dignity.

Therefore, we urge governments to give more investment in peace rather then investment in violence. 

We believe that freedom of press is very important to create a more open and tolerant society which has respect to human dignity. There is no doubt that the media plays a very pivotal role in circulating peaceful messages to people. However, journalists need to improve their ability and sensitivity in reporting certain issues that could provoke riots and political unrest.

It is very important to institutionalize and strengthen democracy that would help to solve imbalance in human relations. Moreover, democracy could provide a venue for different religions, cultures and ethnicities to work together in partnership to establish a common platform for the betterment of people's lives. 

We strongly encourage religious leaders to hold interfaith and inter-cultural dialogues that provide opportunities to learn different faiths, cultures and political aspirations in order to build cooperation and shared responsibility in the hopes of fostering friendship and ultimately reach eternal peace.

We emphasize the importance of the role of faith based organizations and civil society groups to take initiatives of change in the grassroots level for economic empowerment and poverty reduction that will eliminate inequality and injustice.

People at the Grassroots level are a pivotal element in the society who must be involved closely in shaping policies and strategic planning initiatives. Hence the empowerment of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) through various cooperative efforts at the international, regional as well as national levels must be undertaken. This effort must not only be limited to CSOs themselves, but must also gather the support of the relevant government institution. Combined efforts of this collaboration will definitely produce enormous outcome for the world peace.

We strongly believe that religions in there own right never advocate violence in their teachings; however the religious leaders who play an active and influential role in communities must be encouraged to preach the words of peace.  Education and training influence a leader’s ability to build understanding in their respective constituents, which can be better served by experiencing a sense of otherness, i.e. the understanding of the dynamics of other cultures and religions.

In summary, these issues are what we have been discussing during the last two days. We would like to affirm our commitment to bring these messages of peace home.

I wish to see all of you at the 3^rd World Peace Forum.