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...
International Forum on One Korea 2018 Keynote Address by Dr. Hyun Jin P. Moon
The following address was delivered by Dr. Hyun Jin P. Moon at the 2018 International Forum on One Korea held at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC on December 12, 2018. Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen: It’s an honor to address this...
Securing Peace in Local Communities: One Step at a Time
The following story from Global Peace Foundation illustrates the power of community engagement in grassroots projects to create peace on a local and national level. The One Family under God Campaign in Nigeria’s Kaduna State brings together religious...
Quotes from President George H.W. Bush to Inspire You
“Bush was not only a good leader, but a good father and husband, demonstrating the finest qualities of our nation and of humankind." —U.S. Senator Paul Ryan at the Memorial for George H.W. Bush, 41st President of the United States. George Herbert Walker...
A Path to Economic Stability for North Korean Defectors
Simple but effective grassroots projects are helping bring people together from both North and South Korea. The South Korean Entrepreneurs for the development of North Korean Defector Entrepreneurs is one such group that is providing opportunities for...
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...
Korean Service Wave
At the end of the 20th century in Korea, volunteering was not considered desirable. At the time, the country was just coming out of the Asian financial crisis and, before that, the people were busy. So busy, in fact, that the nation was able to...
We Are One Family: Speech by Swami Shantatmananda
The following speech was delivered by Swami Shantatmananda, Secretary of the Ramakrishna Mission in New Delhi, on “Global Ethics and Volunteerism” in Tokyo, Japan on September 29, 2018. Swami Shantatmananda shared stories that animated India’s age-old...
Ways Nature Can Make Better Leaders
A group of college students from across the United States came together to participate in a week-long hiking trip in the iconic wildernesses of Montana. Emerging from barren hills spiked with burnt trees, snow-covered mountain peaks and shining crystal...
Thanksgiving Lessons on Unity
https://animoto.com/play/ZG6izkLt3iJS39EM1YtApA The United States observes Thanksgiving on the third Thursday of November. Most every citizen acknowledges the national holiday as a day to express gratitude for the blessings in their lives, enjoying time...
Peaceful Reunification on the Korean Peninsula: Looking to International Models of Peaceful Change
From Gandhi’s Satyagraha-based push for Indian independence to Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent Civil Rights Movement in the U.S., examples of peaceful resistance offer important lessons on peaceful nation-building. The following story highlights...
The Unfinished Movement: March 1, 1919
March 1, 1919 was the first peaceful protest in a series of Korean citizen-led demonstrations that expressed the spirit of the times: the deeply-rooted longing of a people to make their own choices and to determine their own fates. Many nations (China,...