Peace Education
UPF organizes seminars and conferences that present core values and universal principles of peacebuilding.
- Written by: Joy Pople
London, United Kingdom - A peace festival in the United Kingdom was a sell-out event on November 22 at the London ExCel Center.
- Written by: GPF-UK
London, England - On entering the exhibition area in the ExCeL Center on 22nd November, one of the first things that caught everyone’s eye was a dazzling green algae lamp!
- Written by: Joy Pople, UPF International
London, UK -An International Leadership Conference was held in the legendary Palm Court Terrace at the London Waldorf Hotel November 21-22. A favorite retreat for Oscar Wilde and other literary giants, the room also doubled as the state room in the 1954 film Titanic.
- Written by: UPF-UK
London, United Kingdom - A peace festival began on November 20 with a standing-room only plenary discussion hosted at the House of Commons in the Palace of Westminster on the topic “New Paradigm in a Time of Global Crisis.”
- Written by: Ricardo de Sena
Seoul, South Korea - Can Korea ever be reunited? That was the urgent question posed separately to a crowd of tens of thousands at the Global Peace Festival in Seoul’s Yoido Plaza, and to a smaller but highly placed group of more than 600 people at the Korean National Assembly.
- Written by: UPF-Moldova
Chisinau, Moldova - Crowds of local citizens and guests flocked to the Leogrand Convention Center in downtown Chisinau, for an evening of entertainment and socializing in support of the common goal of peace.
- Written by: Ronald Koonce and Meg Giossi
Moldova - The East-West dilemma in Moldovan foreign policy is a recurrent concern. Due to the near impossibility of defining clear priorities in the first years of independence and making a break from the old mentality, Moldova has been trapped in an interminable transition and identity crisis.
- Written by: Farook Aman, Ottawa, Canada
Ottawa, Canada - In his opening speech, Rev. Walter Fauntroy, a retired US Congressman, brought the audience to a standing ovation when he eloquently and effectively detailed his experience with the then-apartheid government in South Africa and his first-hand experiences in the South of the USA.
- Written by: Tomiko Duggan, Director, UPF-Office of Embassy Relations, Washington, DC
Washington, DC - The 14th Japanese Tea Ceremony was held at the Verizon building in downtown Washington, DC, on October 23, 2008.
- Written by: Steinar Murud, UPF-Norway
Lunde, Norway - A local peace festival was organized by the UPF chapter on the south coast of Norway on October 18.
- Written by: UPF - Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Speakers at the International Leadership Conference in Kuala Lumpur on October 18 called for a greater understanding between Islam and other Abrahamic faiths.
- Written by: UPF-Canada
Ottawa, Canada - Canada’s Ambassadors for Peace drew upon their nation’s principal role in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and developing UN peacekeeping forces at the Canadian Leadership Conference October 2-5.