by Main | Aug 13, 2012 | 2012, Asia
Korea United brings new approaches to Korean unification. Up to now the discussion for unification has been among leaders. Mainly political and military representatives sat at the negotiating table. Korea United is opening the discussion to every citizen. Up to now...
by Main | Aug 9, 2012 | 2012, Africa, Peacebuilding, Youth Leadership
Molo is a town in Kenya’s Rift Valley. In 2007, it experienced the brunt of the ethnic violence that followed the presidential election. Thousands were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. Today in Molo grass grows over the remains of a school that was burnt to...
by Main | Aug 7, 2012 | 2012, Asia, Youth Leadership
The current grandparents and parents of Korea saw their nation torn apart by war. Their generation invested their sweat and blood to build up the nation from its ashes, and shed many tears over the 38th Parallel that carved their families and homeland in half. The...
by Main | Aug 3, 2012 | Asia
In 2010, Korea hosted the G20 Summit as the first non G8 nation. Korea is unique, as President Lee Myung Bak shared, because it has “first-hand experience of economic development within living memory.” In Korea in the 70s, the average family could not afford to put...
by Main | Jul 31, 2012 | 2012, Americas, Global Peace Youth Corps, Learning from Nature, Youth Leadership
I was reminded of why I go into the mountains when I read about the mountain challenges of the youth leaders from the Global Peace Youth Corps in Mt. Kilimanjaro and the mountains of Montana. Before any major undertaking I go into the mountains to align my...
by Main | Jul 6, 2012 | 2012, Africa, Local Conferences, Peacebuilding
I first visited Kenya in 2008. The nation was still suffering from the aftereffects of post-electoral violence. But, I knew that Kenya would recover to become a leading force for African development. Under the coat of arms of Kenya is a Swahili phrase,...