Contact
Krishna AdhikariR-11, FIRST FLOOR
HAUZ KHAS ENCLAVE
New Delhi
India
110016
+91-11-26518990
india@upf.org
India
R-11, FIRST FLOOR
HAUZ KHAS ENCLAVE
New Delhi
India
110016
+91-11-26518990
india@upf.org
Chapter Secretary General
Krishna Adhikari
Global Peace Council Member
Amb. Krishna Venkatachalam Rajan
President, Association of Indian Diplomats
Global Peace Council Member
Hon. Eduardo Faleiro
Commissioner for Non-Resident Indian Affairs, Government of Goa
International Day of Peace Celebrated in Chennai
Chennai, India - On Sept. 21, 2007, UPF, Religious Youth Service and the Gandhian Institutions Chennai commemorated the International Day of Peace in Chennai.
N.P. Jain: Making Peace a Reality
It is a privilege to share some thoughts with such a distinguished assembly representing nations from all the continents on the key topic of providing vision and leadership at a time of global crisis.
RYS Collects 100,000 Signatures for Peace
Chennai, India – As a prelude to the International Day for Peace, which fell on Sept. 21, the RYS – Chennai, India, in association with Gandhian Institutions initiated a Signature Campaign for Peace (September 8 – 19). Nearly 100,000 signatures were collected on the Peace Banners displayed in various universities and institutions as an ushering-in of a new world of peace and, in this way emphasizing altruism as the new paradigm for fomenting peace.
Chennai Governor Attends Leadership Conference
UPF-India organized a program in Chennai on August 10, 2007, on the theme: "Innovative Approaches to Peace in a Changing Global Environment." The special focus was on youth and human security.
Goa Governor Stresses Need for Interfaith Dialogue
Governor S. C. Jamir highlighted the importance of interfaith dialogue to promote peace at a UPF conference in Goa April 29, 2007.
Conference in Goa Promotes Interreligious Council at the UN
In his Inaugural Address before a standing-room-only crowd at The Goa International Centre, on April 23, the Governor of Goa, Shri S.C. Jamir, emphasized that it was "the duty of every nation and its people to cooperate, support, and strengthen ... to the maximum extent possible" the efforts to create an interreligious council at the United Nations.
Religious Youth Service Offers Seminar for Youth and Professors in Chennai
Chennai, India - Religious Youth Service organized an interreligious program for young people and professors from Loyola College in Chennai on April 14, 2007 to inspire them to take up the challenge of bringing together youth across communal and racial barriers.
RYS Participants Help Rebuild a School in India
India – Participants were warmly welcomed by the Muthuvan tribal people, who were very happy to receive outsiders coming to offer substantial help. The RYS participants were instrumental in the critical reconstruction of a local school building, destroyed by the monsoons.
International Day of Peace Celebrated in Chennai
Chennai, India - Interreligious prayers for peace, non-violence and ceasefire marked the International Day of Peace observance in Chennai on Sept. 21, 2006.
Interfaith Conference in Delhi Addresses the Prevalence of HIV/AIDS
UPF and the YMCA teamed up to hold an interfaith conference which addressed the issue of HIV/AIDS from a moral perspective at a Sept. 8, 2006 conference in New Delhi.
Follow-up to Seminar on Character Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention
We received an amazing response to UPF's July 2, 2006, seminar on Character-Based HIV/AIDS Prevention. As India has been declared by the UN to be the country with the highest number of HIV/AIDs infections, people are truly alarmed and want to know how to deal with this problem.
Seminar in New Delhi on Characer Education and HIV/AIDS Prevention
Under the chairmanship of Dr. L.M. Singhvi, the Universal Peace Federation of India held a half-day seminar under the theme, “Character Education Based HIV/AIDS Prevention.” Seventy distinguished participants from a cross section of India’s rich religious and academic heritage held lively discussions at the India International Centre on Sunday, July 2nd. At the conclusion of the event, nine new Ambassador for Peace certificates were given.
Religious Youth Service Promotes Interreligious Harmony in Chennai, India
Religious Youth Service teamed up Indian athletes from the Interreligious Peace Sports Festival to clean and preserve a 100-year-old sacred painting in a 2,000-year-old Hindu temple in rural south India in April 2006.
Peace Tour Inaugurates UPF in India
| New Delhi, India - Dr. and Mrs. Sun Myung Moon were welcomed to New Delhi by Dr. L.M. Singhvi, Hon. Eduardo Faleiro, Lama Lobsang, V.V. Augustine, and Ursula McLackland welcomed them at the airport. |
Chennai Hosts Regional Religious Youth Service Project
Chennai, India—Forty young, enthusiastic volunteers representing five religions assembled in Chennai Sept. 23-30, 2005 to take part in values education and to build bathrooms at an orphanage
Case Study of Conflict Resolution: Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi built the notion of satyagraha (the power of truth, translated as non-violence in Western languages) based on the ancient concept of ahimsa (the refusal to harm). Gandhi believed that there is a common truth to humanity, which is veiled or hidden when there is conflict, and that nonviolence is the way to restore this truth.
Leadership Seminars on India's Legacy of Faith, Family and Peace
The idea for a national tour on the theme of India's Common Legacy of Faith, Family and Peace was conceived during a International Leadership Convocation held in Washington, DC in April.
Seminar in Goa on Interreligious Reconcilation
The eleventh annual “All Religions Seminar for World Peace” was convened on March 20, 2005, at an ashram just outside the state of Goa, India
Indian Athletes Participate in Interreligious Festival
It was a great privilege for me to the International Peace Sports Festival (IPSF) as staff, accompanying teams from Delhi, Chennai and Sikkim, representing three different states and regions of India. In total there were 68 participants from India. Our individual participants performed well.
Learning from the Lingayat Tradition
Dr. Shivamurthy Shivacharya, head of the Taralabalu Ashram of the Lingayat tradition, hosted a family summer camp at his ashram in Sirigere from May 26-31, 2004.