Global Peace Foundation
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| Formation | 2009 |
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| Founder | Hyun Jin Moon |
| Headquarters | Lanham, Maryland, United States |
| Website | http://www.globalpeace.org |
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Formerly called
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Global Peace Festival Foundation |
The Global Peace Foundation (GPF) is an international nonprofit organization with a stated mission to promote “an innovative, values-based approach to peacebuilding, guided by the vision of One Family under God.” GPF partners with government ministries, community and faith-based organizations, and United Nations offices to develop and execute programs that include the Character and Creativity education initiative, Rivers of Peace Initiative, Rift Valley Peace Initiative, All-Lights Village project, Clean Cookstove initiative, Latin American Presidential Mission, International Young Leaders Assembly and Interfaith Alliance to Abolish Human Trafficking (Safe Haven Campaign).
GPF programs place special emphasis on values and ideals grounded in the world’s faith and ethical traditions, and works to bridge religious, cultural and ethnic divisions, strengthen families, and support youth through values education and entrepreneurial training. GPF has offices in nineteen countries and its programs have been recognized with awards and citations from the governments of Korea, Nepal and Malaysia, and by the United Nations Office at Nairobi, Kenya.
Founded in 2009 by Dr. Hyun Jin Moon as the Global Peace Festival Foundation, the organization originally sponsored cultural and sports festivals as an approach to promote social cohesion and mitigate religious and ethnic divisions. It was renamed the Global Peace Foundation in 2012 to better reflect the broader scope of activities being implemented worldwide..
GPF founder Hyun Jin Preston Moon, an Olympic equestrian, first visited Paraguay in 2007 and travelled on horseback through the remote Chaco region to learn about the life of Paraguay’s vaqueros, or ranchers. Impressed by the experience, he later addressed the National Congress on the value of Paraguay’s traditions, and the importance of ethics and values in public life. In July 2008 Moon organized a cultural peace festival and city-wide youth service projects in Asuncion. The Global Peace Festival Foundation (GPFF) was then formally incorporated in 2009, with national offices in Paraguay and the Philippines.
In December 2009, the first Global Peace Convention was hosted in Manila, Philippines, drawing participants from government, civil society, and religious institutions from 28 countries. The convention examined the role of interfaith initiatives, youth activities and service projects in resolving conflict and sustaining peace. Selected participants traveled to Mindanao, a region with a 40-year, ongoing conflict that has claimed the lives of an estimated 160,000 people, on a fact-finding tour of GPF agriculture and aquaculture pilot programs aimed to promote economic livelihoods and to resolve divisions between Muslims, Christians and indigenous peoples in the region.
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