by Main | Oct 8, 2015 | 2015, Korean Dream, Peacebuilding, Speeches, Video
Dr. Hyun Jin Moon, Founder and Chairman of the Global Peace Foundation, speaks at the Global Peace Economic Forum in Seoul, Korea, on October 8th, 2015. The speech stresses the need for economic reform in South Korea as a key component for creating a re-unified Korean...
by Main | Jun 6, 2014 | Learning from Nature, Peacebuilding
Dr. Moon recently mentioned Dr. Maya Angelou’s last tweet, posted on May 23rd, five days before she passed away. Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God. — Maya Angelou (@DrMayaAngelou) May 23, 2014 Her quote still resonates, reminding...
by Main | Aug 16, 2013 | 2013, Europe, Global Peace Foundation, One Family Under God, Peacebuilding
Unsteady peace has held in Ireland for fifteen years, but there are still painful reminders of the violence and discrimination that ripped across the Emerald Isle propagated by political, religious and national differences. Thousands of lives were taken in the...
by Main | Jul 29, 2013 | 2013, Asia, One Family Under God, Peacebuilding
July 27th 1953, the armistice was signed that established a ceasefire between North and South Korea. 60 years later, the 38th parallel still stands. To the north, grand military celebrations were held, to the south somber commemorations recalled the 1.2 million lives...
by Main | Apr 12, 2013 | 2013, Africa, Peacebuilding
– posted by GPF Social Media Team at Thursday, April 11, 2013April in Rwanda brings back painful memories for some. In 100 days nearly 800,000 Rwandans were killed. The difference between the killed and the killers was a marginal divide, “mostly artificial, a...
by Main | Apr 4, 2013 | 2013, Asia, Peacebuilding
Koreans ranked Kim Gu the greatest leader after Korean Independence in an online poll in 2004. Kim Gu’s is a central figure in the story of modern Korea’s birth. Born August 29, 1876, as Kim Changahm, he saw the end of the Joseon Dynasty, protested Japan’s annexation...
