by Main | Apr 24, 2013 | 2013, Americas, Global Peace Foundation, National Transformation
The annual “Living for the Sake of Others” awards ceremony will be held April 25th in Paraguay. Last year, Dr. Moon and Mrs. Jun Sook Moon attended the “Living for the Sake of Others” awards. Mrs. Moon delivered the keynote address where she noted: Women have...
by Main | Apr 18, 2013 | 2013, Asia, Global Peace Foundation
The first World Peace Award Forum was held from April 17-18, convened by Shaikh Majd bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of the Dubai Culture and Arts Authority. The vision of the forum, the first of its kind, is “to make global peace a reality” through...
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 9, 2013 | 2013, Europe, Other
Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first and currently only female Prime Minister and longest serving PM in the 20th century, passed away on April 8, 2013. Just as many love her as dislike her for her hard lined stance against communism and her fight for free market...
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...
by Main | Apr 3, 2013 | 2012, Asia, Peacebuilding, Tribute to My Father
The sudden passage of Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon on September 3, 2012 was covered globally. Amidst the reports, The Atlantic published an article by Armin Rosen entitled “Sun Myung Moon’s Groundbreaking Campaign to Open North Korea”. He writes, “But for...