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Handshake features prominently at Global Peace Summit as Museveni is awarded peace trophy

Uganda President Yoweri Museveni displays the Global Peace Leadership Award trophy presented to him at the 2018 Global Peace Leadership Conference for East Africa and the Great Lakes Region min recognition of his country’s regional efforts on peace and security, the resettlement of refugees and the successful track record in the fight against the HIV/AIDS scourge. He is flanked by former Zanzibar President and Chairman of the African leadership Forum Abeid Amani Karume (Right),,member of the Global Leadership Council Robert A. Schuller (left) and Founder of the Global Peace Foundation who is author of 'Korean Dream' Dr Hyun Jin Preston Moon (extreme left).

Kenya’s handshake experiment to foster peace across the political divide featured prominently at the 2018 Global Peace Conference for East Africa and the Great Lakes region that ended in Uganda over the weekend.

The Conference held at the Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort in Kampala under the theme “New Models for Sustainable Peace and Development” heard how the handshake had positive  ripple effect   across the world,  borne out by  the  recent Donald Trump/Kim Jong Un handshake in Singapore  over the Korean impasse, the handshake in Khartoum between South Sudan President Salva Kiir and his arch rival Riek Machar, the recent  handshake between Eritrea President Isaias Afeworki and new Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali that had normalized long strained  relationship between the two sister countries and  the Trump/ Putin handshake at their controversial summit in  Helsinki, Finland.

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