Approach to Peacebuilding
Advancing a Movement for Peace based on the
Vision of One Family under God
A peace-building vision rooted in universal principles and values is an essential foundation for peace. Such a framework for peace can advance new avenues for track-two diplomacy that fully engages the value-generating institutions of civil society.
Thanksgiving in Times of Crisis: A President’s Resolve for Unification
"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his...
Origins of the United States Veterans’ Day
On November 11th every year, the United States honors the men and women who are serving and have served in its armed forces on Veterans Day. The day was originally Armistice Day, created at the end of World War I by President Woodrow Wilson, to commemorate the end of...
Faith Communities in Renewing the Social Fabric
Introduction A recent report for the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Senate, The Social Capital Project, documents and details an unraveling of the American “social fabric.” This loss of “social capital” is, put simply, the loss of a basic trust among neighbors,...
Uniting Under a Global Vision: Celebrating United Nations Day
The American dream led the United States to prosper and inspire other nations throughout its short history. After the end of the Second World War, this dream was the inspiration behind the US effort to create the United Nations. –Dr. Hyun Jin Preston...
International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
October 17 marks the United Nation's International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. The world demands moral and innovative leaders with a capacity for economic principles that benefit the greater society. In his 2017 keynote address at the Global Peace Economic...
Interfaith Assembly in Indonesia Unites Youth Beyond Barriers of Religion
“I, as one of many young people in the world, see the hope for world peace under this vision of One Family under God. It is so empowering. I’ve had firsthand experiences that every single person wants a world full of love because in the end, differences between people...
Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, Unity in Diversity
Since its independence in 1945, Indonesia has struggled through a daunting array of social, political and economic challenges. Today, the Muslim-majority nation in the world is recognized as an increasingly mature, vibrant democracy. Though many would acknowledge that...
The Power of Faith in Peaceful Reunification Amidst Rising Tension on the Korean Peninsula
Most of the great movements for social and cultural change have been driven by faith-inspired people. Imagine the possibilities if faith traditions were able to work together, instead of looking at the other as competitors or rivals, to bring about fundamental social...
Interfaith Campaign Fostering Lasting Peace as One Family under God
At one point in 2016, some began to claim that the Fulani herdsmen were slaughtering the native settlers; others claimed that the opposite was true. Whatever the case, there was a violent conflict in southern Kaduna. It was the kind of conflict that always ended up...