The Korean dream: A vision for peace in Asia’s future
This opinion piece by Dr. Hyun Jin Preston Moon was published on Sept. 3rd, 2016 in the Sunday Guardian. See the original at: http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/opinion/6311-korean-dream-vision-peace-asia-s-future Principles such as Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam can be an...
Countering Violent Extremism, One Family At A Time
In efforts to understand and counter violent extremism, governments, think tanks and institutions are beginning to recognize the role of the family in preventing radicalization. A recent report by the Rand Corporation studied youth in the West Bank and came to the...
Global Peace Foundation Engaging Moral Authority for Peace
Over the years my religion has changed and my spirituality has evolved. Religion and spirituality are very different, but people often confuse the two. Some things cannot be taught, but they can be awakened in the heart. Spirituality is recognizing the...
“하나의 꿈” and a New Genre of Korean Unification Songs
The New Era Unification Song Campaign launched in 2015, was led by an unprecedented coalition of government, civil society and private sector partnership to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Korean independence and raise awareness with the younger generation of a...
A Common Vision for a Unified Korea
The following remarks were delivered at the Civil Society forum on Korean Reunification on October 8th in Seoul, Korea by Mr. Michael Marshall, editor of Dr. Hyun Jin Moon’s book, Korean Dream: A Vision for Unified Korea. Thank you Dr. Ryu for that very flattering...
Strengthening Families To Prevent Youth Radicalism
"Dia what are you doing?" Vandy asks the young man pointing a gun at him. Dia, who had been kidnapped and trained to become a child solider tries his best not to acknowledge Vandy, his father. “You are a good boy who loves soccer; who loves school. Your mother loves...
UBUNTU: Faith and Reconciliation
“An anthropologist proposed a game to children in an African tribe. He put a basket full of fruit near a tree and told the children that whoever got there first wins the whole basket of sweet fruits. When he told them to run, they all took each others’ hands and ran...
Education for the Future
A parent shamelessly calls in sick to an employer on behalf of their – ostensibly – adult child, another accompanies their child to graduate school interviews. These and other stories illustrate the concepts of “helicopter” or “hothouse parenting”. Although they are...
Principles and Values – the Bedrock of Civilizations
The rise of great civilizations requires a foundation of universal principles and shared values that form the foundation of an ethic that holds the people to a shared identity and destiny. A civilizations’ rise is attributed to the people’s resonance to enduring...
Going Beyond Tribalism
Tribalism describes the way human societies have operated for nearly the whole of human history. As an organizing principle based on the notion of shared kinship ties, tribalism makes distinctions between those of the tribe and those who are not. The danger of this...
An Interfaith Movement Based on Universal Principles and Shared Values
This era should be one where people of every faith come together on the foundation of such principles and values in a new Great Spiritual Awakening. "In order to meet the threat of global religious conflict, a new type of interfaith movement must appear, much like the...
Why Vision
The traditional approach to problem-solving has very often been focused on mitigating the symptoms of a larger problem. We might hear the term “band-aid solutions” to connote a remedy that covers over only the visible signs of a problem. In geopolitics today, we can...