Schools Build Peace through Character and Creativity
Select schools in Uganda have been chosen to implement a curriculum which, in a complement to promoting academic excellence, helps to cultivate peace and community building skills. The Global Peace Foundation Uganda has been implementing the Character and...
Robbers Cave Lessons
The Robbers Cave experiment is one of the seminal, textbook social psychology experiments on group conflict that dates back to the 1950s. The experiment put two groups of boys from similar backgrounds through a series of competitions and tests to see what...
Africa is a Continent Vibrant with Possibilities
Read Dr. Hyun Jin P. Moon's full speech delivered at the Global Peace Leadership Conference in Kampala, Uganda under the theme, “Moral and Innovative Leadership: New Models for Peace and Development,” on August 1-2, 2018, where he highlights the...
Building Peace in Dutsen-Wai: A Story of Interfaith
“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love...
Nigeria One Family Under God Peacebuilding Campaign Helps Communities Envision Peace Together
"If you want to go fast, go alone; but if you want to go far, go together." —African proverb The following article is from Global Peace Foundation describing the importance of the vision of “One Family under God” and it’s practical application to areas of...
What Makes America Great? Celebrating July 4th
"I firmly believe that God has blessed America not for itself, but for the sake of the world. America is to be a place where people of all races and backgrounds can discover the deeper basis of human value, that 'under God' all have been endowed equally with the same...
An Engine of Transformation: One Family Under God
Youth in Tanzania are turning away from extremism thanks to collaborative efforts by teachers and professionals who are mentoring students in their community through a leadership program organized by the Global Peace Foundation in Tanzania. One volunteer mentor calls...
Reconciliation needs a Vision for the Future
In the 1990’s, “reconciliation” was in the air. Countries with different histories and cultures saw the process that South Africa went through in its post-apartheid period and saw their own need to do the same. Each nation took up interpretation of reconciliation in...
Muslim and Christian Youth Build Peace in Interfaith Talks
Passion, energy, and dreams animate youth to see beyond their current realities. What exists today doesn’t have to exist tomorrow. Likewise, what doesn’t exist today can begin to be built tomorrow. In a challenge to the current reality of rising religious intolerance...