by Main | Nov 4, 2016 | Africa, Global Peace Foundation, Interfaith, Interfaith Leadership, Moral and Innovative Leadership, Peacebuilding
Getting to Peace There is something much more sublime than the practical at work in human faith. If we were limiting ourselves to the logical and practical, then education and vocational training should do the trick. Religion is powerful precisely because it functions...
by Main | Oct 26, 2016 | Africa, Interfaith, Interfaith Leadership, One Family Under God, Vision in Action
Interfaith ‘Twins’ Promote a vision of Peace in Northern Nigeria The Christian and Muslim cleric from Kaduna State in Nigeria, Rev. Joseph Hayab and Sheik Abdulahi Maraya, are known as the “twins of Kaduna” for their affectionate personal relationship and...
by Main | May 19, 2016 | Asia, Korean Dream
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...
by Main | Apr 27, 2016 | Africa, One Family Under God, Peacebuilding
“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...
by Main | Dec 7, 2015 | Africa, One Family Under God
“Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can’t exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness.” ~Desmond Tutu Ubuntu is an indigenous African philosophy that transcends tribal and linguistic borders. The concept appears in...
by Main | Nov 5, 2015 | Asia, Global Peace Foundation
Bambie Panta was at home having lunch with her husband, Global Peace Foundation – Nepal President Ram Panta and their two children when the massive earthquake hit Kathamndu and surrounding areas in April 2015. Her husband grabbed the children and made for the door. “I...
