Further to my report on the Dubai Peace March , I attended the opening ceremony of the DUBAI INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONVENTION yesterday ( 12th ) . Eminent speakers from US , Europe , the Arab world and Asia spoke essentially on the importance of peace . Thousands attended the convention and it was very heartening to note that almost half the audience comprised of children. My school, THE MILLENNIUM SCHOOL , had distributed leaflets of the convention in our classes to increase awareness of this event . The conference will  continue today and end tomorrow(14th ) , so interested people from the region are urged to attend.

Wars create poverty , loss of human capital and resources , increase pollution and irrepairable damage to habitat. So, conferences like these are an imporant step towards eradicating wars , thereby addressing one of the key themes of the Earth Summit which is building a green economy in the context of poverty eradiaction and sustainable development. We must remember that if there's peace , there's hope for a green future!