IAEWP is pleased to announce the admission of Ms. Maria Cristina Azcona in the Diplomatic Commission representing Argentina.
Maria Cristina Azcona is the WWPO President Founder and a Director at IFLAC ( The International Forum for a Literature and a Culture of Peace) in Latin America . The Worldwide Peace Organization- WWPO based in Buenos Aires,Argentina and Chicago, IL- USA
She is an Educational Psychologist by USAL University of Buenos Aires, 1975; a Family counselor by the Navarra University , Navarra, Spain, 1999
She is a Writer, poetess, translator, editor, Peace literature leader in Latin America; Co-founder & Advisor to Poets and Storytellers of the Mercosur, Rosario, Sta Fe, Argentina
She is an Academician member in education for HD ; HS Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Columbia University, New York
She serves as a Vice president - GHA: Global Harmony Association-St Petersburg-Russia; Peace Ambassador -Circle peace ambassadors of Switzerland and France as well as the President and Co-founder of United Nations Letters of Colombia.
Her impressive holistic achievements include the following :-
a. Honorary Advisor for the Editorial and Publishing Non-profit Foundation Cyberwit.net, India
b. Representative in Argentina forThe Love Foundation, Florida, USA
c. Azcona works as a freelance Educational Therapist and family advisor, psychotherapist of
children, marriages and families and forensic expert in, accident victims.
d.She also works as a freelance translator English{Spanish and Spanish-English.
e. She acts voluntarily as president, deputy president, representative, co-founder and committee member at various NGOs worldwide, with the objective to spread peace thoughts worldwide through art and literature.
e. Also acts as writer, editor, poet and literary critic, in Spanish and also in English, with wide recognition, diffusion and publication, nationally and internationally. Azcona has 20 books published.
f. In 2005 she has been a contributor researcher to UNESCO-EOLSS Encyclopedia on the topics of Education for Peace and Peace Literature and has received numerous awards concerning this topic and around bilingual literature for peace in both Spanish and English languages respectively in India, Argentina, Colombia, Spain, USA, among other countries.
g. In 1998, she won First Prize in the poetry contest by the Academic Circle of Argentinean Writers and finalist in many contests of poetry by different literary institutions.
h.In 2000 she started to write bilingually, with a unique intention: to spread her peace ideals,worldwide.
i. In 2005, she has been nominated as an honorary member of the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Columbia University) Global Core Team, and their Education Team.
j. In 2005 , she was nominated as Universal Peace Ambassador in the framework of the Universal Ambassadors Peace Circle, Switzerland.
k. In 2005 became cofounder and part of the directorate of the GHA Global Harmony Association-Peace from Harmony, founded by Dr Leo Semashko.
l. Since 2005 Her peace poems and articles can be read at the UNESCO EOLSS Encyclopedia, and at their e-book “Peace, Literature and Art "
m. In 2007 she obtained the IFLAC MERIT AWARD as best and most active director of IFLAC worldwide. (The International Forum for a Literature and a Culture of Peace)-
n. In 2008 she was called Symbol of harmonious peace in Argentina
o.In 2008 she was called Symbol of harmonious peace in St Petersburg, Russia ( GHA-Global Harmony Association)-
p. In 2009 obtained the Azsacra- Cyberwit International poetry prize, India, and also became FLAC Director in South America and Vice president at UHE Hispanic american writers union, Peru.
q. Since 2010 María is The Love Foundation . Coordinator in Argentina-Her work has been constantly published in the US as printed publications like Spirit Magazine, EAP Bulletin, Poesia and Poesia News, Latino Today, Meeting of the Minds Journal and Poetry Magazine.
