Helping Others Ease the Burden: A Story of Hope in Disaster
As the world faces an unprecedented challenge together, we can learn from small acts of service taking place around the world. We live in strange and uncertain times, but there are many ways to continue to care for one another, spreading our human compassion to uplift...
The Ideals that Sustain Our Nation
Benjamin Franklin was once asked whether the United States was a democracy or a Republic. To this, he was purported to have said, “a Republic, if you can keep it...” When the Founding Fathers established the United States of America, they designed it as a...
Practical Peacebuilding: Why “One Family under God” Works
“We are all beings that come from one single creator; we are all members of one family under God. A self-evident truth that every human being—no matter what race, religion, tribe, nationality or socioeconomic status—every human being has fundamental human value...
Tanzania Day of Education
Youth in Tanzania are demonstrating the vital role young leaders play in paving the way for sustainable peace. Since Tanzania’s independence in 1961, the education system in Tanzania has undergone multiple transformations based on political and economic changes and...
Fight for Religious Freedom Fuels Korea’s Movement for Independence
Many people know that the March 1st Korean Independence Movement was a peaceful civil society movement, but what most know much less about is what caused this three-month-long, peninsula-wide outpouring of public support from Koreans both at home and internationally....
A Vision to Transform Indonesia and the World to Peace: One Family under God
The vision of “one family under God” is not a distant utopian concept; it is a vision that has become very real in regions around the world. In Indonesia, it has inspired an ongoing movement of volunteers and residents to see their neighbors as family members despite...
A Vision Respects Diversity, Uniqueness, and Collaboration for the Common Good
“Our approach is not one-dimensional. Let me explain more about AKU. This is a civic movement. In other words, it is a collective effort of different religious groups, NGOs, charities, civil society, etc. working together. It also serves as a think tank for government...
Growth through Challenge: A Shared Principle Across all Faith Traditions
World Interfaith Harmony week, celebrated the first week of February, gives us an opportunity to explore the universal principles and spiritual values upheld by the world's great religious teachings. Among these is the truth that good things don't come easily. We live...
Korean Diaspora Renewal
Koreans began to venture out into the wider world in larger numbers following colonial occupation beginning in the late 19th century and now appear to be spread out over 175 countries around the globe. With these approximately 7.4 million Koreans living abroad, the...
Citizens Move for Reunification in Korea
Action for Korea United (AKU) is a coalition of thousands of Korean reunification activists, from both the North and South, who are drawing upon their shared identity as one people to build a movement for One Korea that is based on the ideals and aspirations of the...
10 Inspiring Quotes from Martin Luther King Jr.
Recent history has seen examples of inspired leadership in the lives of people like Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King, Jr. who is remember on the third Monday every January in the United States. Each of these leaders had to face enormous...
2019 Year in Review
"The deciding factor at such times is always moral and innovative leadership, on every level." The new year has already opened with many challenges. Kim Jong Un has declared an end to North Korea’s self-imposed moratorium on nuclear missile development and issued a...