Speech
A. Betancourt: The Arab Spring Is Not Lost. What Do the People Need?
Social structures await to be drawn up. Resources need to be found. But the fundamental purpose of the Arab Spring was to give people voice, and in democracies that voice is in the vote, and safeguarded in the nation’s constitution. If any meaningful group is marginalized in the process, then the Arab Spring and, in truth, Arab awakening, will only find yet another dawn to be awakened.
U.J. Ogwu: The Price of Violence and Dividends in Healing the Wounds of History
There have been cases of conflict involving Nigerians of differing regional, tribal, and religious backgrounds. While the majority of Nigerians are peace-loving people, there are those who stimulate violence, often to serve their own interests.
E.N. Dhakal: A Call to Good Governance
“I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself.” Ladies and Gentlemen, this is a quote of an African hero Nelson Mandela. Then how Africa can attain such peace with itself? We need responsible leadership and good governance to accomplish it.
A. Yamanaka: Address to the International Leadership Conference
Japan should take more initiative in peacebuilding human development and encourage the establishment of a UN Peacebuilding Committee. Also, Japan should take more initiative in preventive diplomacy during natural and human-induced disasters.
D. Krishnan: Address to the International Leadership Conference
Malaysia's Department of Unity and National Integration under the Prime Minister’s Office has been rendering financial, material, and moral support to more than 14 Religious Youth Service projects carried out under the banner of UPF-Malaysia. These inter-religious projects which teach our young people to work together in harmony for the sake of the nation help the government achieve its goal of One Malaysia.
J. Shrestha: Address to the International Leadership Conference
I believe that there is a necessity for a model partnership between governments and faith-based NGOs which can be an essential component of any new model of global governance. It is important that in building our civilizations, we enhance interfaith cooperation among governments, civil society, and the United Nations system.
L. Nyalley: Practicing Character Education
It is with great pleasure and high honor that I accept your invitation for me to attend this award ceremony for the students who have the completed training in character education by the Universal Peace Federation and give a talk. The theme of the ceremony is "Developing students to realize their potential through character education."
A.K. Chowdhury: Women Are Essential for Sustainable Peace
NEW YORK (IDN) - The International Women's Day in 2000 was an extraordinary day for me and will remain so for the rest of my life. That day, I had the honour, on behalf of the United Nations Security Council as its President, of issuing a statement that formally brought to global attention the unrecognized, under-utilized and under-valued contribution women have been making to preventing war, to building peace and to engaging individuals and societies live in harmony.
A. Matsui: Religions in Japan
In ancient Japan it is said that there were 8 million gods. Some gods lived in mountains, in big rocks or trees and forests, the sea and rivers. Some of them were strong warriors, foxes, snakes, the moon, the wind and the thunder. The most important of them was the sun, the origin of Shintoism.
H.J. Moon: Address to an International Leadership Conference in Korea, February 2010
God’s original ideal was to have humanity inherit his true love—a love that can bring even the worst evil, even Satan to natural surrender. True love is God’s essence and his divinity and the gift that God wanted to give to his children.
A. Yamanaka: Human Development and Peace Building
Statement given by Prof. Akiko Yamanaka, Professional By-Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, England, and Former Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan, at the International Leadership Conference in Seoul, Korea, on February 18, 2010.
A. Lu: A New Era of Soft Power
What I am most proud of is my commitment to the policy of soft power. Soft power is different from the tradition of hard power. Hard power has created economic exploitation. Soft power reaches out to others and involves them in partnership.
P. Aguayo: To Change the World, We Must First Change Ourselves
The presentations during the International Leadership Conference in Korea and the World Peace Blessing demonstrate the seriousness, respect, and yearning that the Federation has to unify individuals, families, institutions, religions, and governments in the quest for peace.
H.J. Moon: Address to Ambassadors for Peace
Congratulations on the 7th Annual Ambassadors for Peace Banquet. I especially want to commend the recipients of the Excellence in Leadership Award and the newly appointed Ambassadors for Peace. You are members of a distinguished group of people who are seeking to promote a unified world of peace. As Ambassadors for Peace you have joined the world’s largest and most divers network of peace leaders, representing the religious, racial and ethnic diversity of the human family, as well as all disciplines of human endeavor.
H.J. Moon: Inauguration Speech as Chair of UPF
It is my fundamental conviction that an ideal world of peace and unity cannot be established by human effort alone. It requires faith. To build a world of peace, we need to elevate our faith to a higher level and learn to see each other with our spiritual eyes, eyes of love and acceptance. Only then can we build One Family under God by receiving the marriage blessing and forming families of peace centered on the true love of God.
H. Green: The Significance of Marriage and Family for Peace in the 21st Century
I am confident that this convocation in Korea on marriage and family will inspire us all to work tirelessly so that the balance of this 21st Century will be characterized by wholesome marriages, loving families, and therefore peace.
H. Muratovic: The Task of Reconciliation in the Balkans
The war in Bosnia-Herzegovina was the most tragic war after the Second World War in Europe. Although the fighting may have stopped, the conflict has not been truly finished because there is no reconciliation yet. We have open borders and thus the opportunity is available for people to reconcile and reestablish good relations.
F. Assifi: Pray for a Relief of Suffering
Today I am going to take you on a short, short journey of why Afghanistan is in such a fragile situation. Why do we have all the nations in the world involved in bringing peace to Afghanistan and yet we are still the killing field of the world today?
L.H. Ratsifandrihamanana: Statement by the African Union on the International Day of Families
Africa has its fair of problems and carries the seeds for a solution within its rich family traditions. Our model of the extended family of relations helping and supporting each other is among the strongest in the world.
Y. von Stedingk: Rights and Responsibilities of the Individual to the Community and Others
Wars are fought between States, but States are made up of individuals, individuals who most probably, deep down, did not want anything more than peace, for their families, for their children and for themselves. How come then that individuals, people like you and me, have not been able to prevent wars, neither in the past nor those which are being fought today - although in different ways and by different means?