The US John Walsh Peacemaker Award Organization on Tuesday conferred on Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, wife of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, its peace award for 2006.

The non-profit organization said in its citation that Mrs. Mubarak is one of the leading female figures at the international level who are disseminating the culture of peace.

Also, according to the organization, Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak, through founding the Suzanne Mubarak International Movement for Women and Peace
(SMIMWP), is seeking the spread of the culture of peace and renouncing violence.

Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak called in a message, to the ceremony held last night in New York in her honor on the occasion of being granted the award, that was received, on her behalf, by Ambassador Maged Abdel-Fattah, Egypt's chief delegate to the United Nations, on all to exert efforts in order to find the proper field and mechanism enabling all persons, specially women, children and youths, to participate in process of making peace, development and security all over the world.

Mrs. Mubarak welcomed members of the organization. "I welcome all of you from Sharm El Sheikh, city of peace, and I'm sorry for not being with you because of the World Economic Forum hosted by Egypt under the title "A Promise for a New Generation" pushed by the desire of our regions to achieve more progress", she said, adding that the meeting comes in the proper time to represent a great opportunity for us to discover mean and ways of facing the current political, social and economic challenges in a way that leads to enlighten the road before those who represent future in the Middle East.

She affirmed that we must spare no efforts to the successful implementation of the policy of combination, the policy which requires founding the proper field and mechanism enabling all persons, specially women, children and youths, to participate in process of making peace, development and security all over the world.

"In this context, the Suzanne Mubarak International Movement for Women and Peace (SMIMWP) was established in 2003 and we focused on the positive and comprehensive analysis for peace and concluding agreements of partnership with the relative sectors on the international level and encouraging all participants to become from effective peacemakers, Mrs. Suzanne added, affirming that such steps came in the frame of the movement's interest and efforts because of which I'm willing to receive the John Walsh Peacemaker Award.

Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak noted that working with youths represents an inseparable part of said efforts. Through their unique voice and imagination we can find new mean of cooperation among societies and countries and through their unique innovation they can help in granting the peace a face full of hope, equality, dignity, freedom, and justice for all and with their ability to gather support they can transfer waves of tolerance into a climate of understanding. Therefore, our movement struggles to use said positive efforts for changing through providing mechanisms and human resources to implement in developing the self-confidence and ability of achievement to youths.

This methodology requires to build their abilities in order to realize, by themselves, meaning of peace and its influence on their life and calls for establishing limited channels through which they can express their needs, promote their targets and exert continuous effort to increase opportunities of their full participation in their communities. It needs us to teach them mean of changing wrong notions and ideas through dialogue.

The Seeds of Peace organization always clarifies that interaction among different cultures and religions is the best way to avoid misunderstanding and enhance rapprochement. I was so pleased when I knew that a new session was held recently in Gaza which affirmed value of peace and tolerance how to merge said issues inside school classes and communities.

Our movement works on the same lines on the national level. We developed programs aiming to encourage youths to accept the idea of "positive tolerance" through welcoming diversity as a source for fertility and a beacon for the fruitful exchange for ideas and innovation as a weapon against racism.

Said programs enhance the joint moral values and feeling of fidelity extended form working together to solve the joint problems. Mrs. Suzanne Mubarak clarified that there many mean to enhance best future for youths, but the primary step is always listening. If the youths have no word in issues of war, they have to be the strongest voice of peace and we have to guarantee that their opinions and behaviors have an important influence on our communities. By this way, they shoulder responsibility of development's fruits.

If the "A Promise for a New Generation" represents peace, stability and development, therefore, we have to participate today and the next generation of leaders, assistants and relative figures will appear from the current generation of youths.

Finally, I would like to appreciate your painstaking efforts which appear year after another in paving the way before peace via hearts and minds of youths. Your commitments give us the real hope in these hard times as hope is the strongest source of inspiration for the sake of peace.

Founded in 1993, Seeds of Peace is dedicated to empowering young leaders with the leadership skills required to realize the peaceful coexistence in regions of conflict and prepare them as leaders for future able to ease tension and advance processes of reconciliation coexistence during wars.