“One Family Under God” Bridges Castes in India
Global Peace Foundation has been building models of peacebuilding around the world, connecting people across race, nationality, religion and social divides to recognize shared values and invest in a future together. The "Smile" project in India is a developing model...
Howard Thurman and Lessons for Korean Reconciliation
While there are few direct links between the Korean Independence Movement and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement, the parallels between them are obvious. Both were movements in the struggle for freedom, responsibility, and self-determination. They worked in...
Why We Build Local Peacebuilding Models
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. R.Buckminster Fuller In the field of peace studies, it has long been recognized that – while everyone wants peace,...
Interfaith Harmony Week 2019
World Interfaith Harmony Week is observed every year throughout the first week of February. Understanding and dialogue between members of all faith traditions is essential to create peace in increasingly diverse communities around the world. Together, we...
5 Ways Peace Advanced in 2018: Year in Review
Looking back on 2018, important advancements in peacebuilding have been made around the world. With the vision of One Family under God and a growing multi-sectoral network of moral, innovative leaders, Dr. Hyun Jin Preston Moon worked to advance peace and...
2018 Year in Review: Education and Entrepreneurship
The Character and Creativity Initiative of the Global Peace Foundation is not just promoting academic excellence, but also cultivating peace and community-building skills for schools in Uganda, Paraguay, Malaysia, and other countries around the world....
Africa to Korea: Interfaith Cooperation for Social Transformation
"Religious people must work together within their communities to solve common social problems. The issue of the divided Korean peninsula should be viewed in this light. When you reach out and help those who suffer, they will meet God through you. This is...
5 Reasons to Dream Big
We need people who can dream, and who are bold enough to take that dream and make it into something real and profound. We need people of enterprise that can be creative and move issues forward. We need people who can offer new paradigms, new frameworks...
One World Family
https://animoto.com/play/ezG1kNJW0vF8yXU18uFb1w Swami Shantatmananda, Secretary of the Ramakrishna Mission in New Delhi, spoke on “Global Ethics and Volunteerism” in Tokyo, Japan on September 29, 2018. There, he shared stories that animated India’s age-old...