Peace Education
UPF organizes seminars and conferences that present core values and universal principles of peacebuilding.
- Written by: UPF-Papua New Guinea
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea—UPF’s Oceania Leadership Conference drew 80 participants, including teachers, ministers, community leaders, and students.
- Written by: UPF-Peru
Lima, Peru—Two UPF leaders were recognized for their peace work at an event held at the Congress of Peru.
- Written by: Aldo P. D’Onofrio, president, UPF-Tuscany
Cavriglia, Italy—A UPF official is invited to speak at a commemoration for 191 victims of a Nazi massacre in July 1944.
- Written by: Mykhailo Ilin, chair of UPF-Ukraine
Odessa, Ukraine—A group of mostly children traveled from Kiev to Odessa as the Ukrainian contribution to the Peace Road 2018 campaign.
- Written by: UPF-Australia
Brisbane, Australia—Community leaders learned about UPF’s Principles for Peace.
- Written by: Fabrice Djimadoum, UPF-Zambia
Lusaka, Zambia—IAPD committee members receive orientation and review constitution.
- Written by: Maria Pammer, secretary general, UPF-Upper Austria
Linz, Austria—In recognition of World Refugee Day, UPF held a “literature concert” that combined classical music with readings of the written word.
- Written by: Steinar Murud, secretary general, UPF-Norway
Oslo, Norway—UPF-Norway organized a Peace Road event that took 18 bicyclists to a Peace Park on the border with Sweden.
- Written by: Jürgen Eck, UPF-Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, Germany—Visitors to a UPF meeting received a taste of the unusual as they took part in a traditional Japanese tea ceremony.
- Written by: UPF-Canada
Vancouver, Canada—Dr. Krishna Sharma, a Canadian scientist and interfaith activist, spoke with UPF-Canada members about the evolution of human values in Nepal.
- Written by: Josef Resch, UPF-Germany
Giessen, Germany—One hundred years after the Republic of Finland came into existence, UPF celebrated with a program about Finnish history and culture.
- Written by: Dr. José Sérgio da Rosa Vieira, national president, UPF-Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal—Two UPF Ambassadors for Peace were among the guests at a one-day seminar that presented the UPF Peace Principles in greater depth.