Character Education
Cultivating good character is an important part of a child's education at home, at school and in the community. Many UPF chapters offer lessons in classrooms or train teachers and administrators in character education or peace education.
- Written by: UPF-Australia
Melbourne, Australia—UPF-Australia and the IAAP-Oceania launched the Values Education Summit series with a webinar that focused on the importance and future of values education.
- Written by: UPF-Philippines
Manila, Philippines—UPF-Philippines has issued a joint statement in support of a character education initiative that was recently signed into law in the country.
- Written by: Ana Paula F. da Silva, board secretary, UPF-Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal—UPF organized three working meetings of Ambassadors for Peace in order to implement the UPF character education program.
- Written by: UPF-Australia
Melbourne, Australia—UPF-Australia addressed the importance of values education at meeting with the Productivity Commission, an advisory body of the Australian government.
- Written by: UPF-Australia
Melbourne, Australia—Ambassadors for Peace were an attentive audience for Dr. Michael Ungar, expert on child, family, and community resilience.
- Written by: UPF-Portugal
Amadora, Portugal—UPF has supported an online debate of Portuguese-speakers on the topic of “Leadership and Citizenship.”
- Written by: UPF-Canada
Vancouver, Canada—UPF guests receive relevant information about depression at their recent meeting.
- Written by: UPF-Oceania
Port Vila, Vanuatu—Dreams, visitations from Jesus, spiritual experiences, repentance, resurrection and scriptural inspiration based on the Principles of Peace of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) were abundant during the two-day Oceania Leadership Conference in Port Vila, Vanuatu.
- Written by: Santosh Neupane, chair, Family Federation for World Peace and Unification of Fiji
Nausori, Fiji—The 2017 International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking was observed with an oratory contest at Saraswati College.
- Written by: UPF-Indonesia
Jakarta, Indonesia—Two universities and a city mayor hosted UPF-Indonesia’s National Tour on character education in April.
- Written by: Binod Dangi, secretary general, UPF-Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal—Youth and Students for Peace, in partnership with UPF and the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP), organized a character education program in Nepal.
- Written by: UPF-Indonesia
West Java, Indonesia—UPF-Indonesia commenced the 2017 leg of its 2016-2017 national tour on character education with programs held in two provinces.