Hyun Jin Moon
| Hyun Jin Preston Moon | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1969 Seoul, South Korea |
| Education | MBA |
| Alma mater | Harvard Business School |
| Occupation | Chairman of the Global Peace Foundation |
Hyun Jin Preston Moon (born 1969) is the founder and chairman of the Global Peace Foundation.
Moon is a humanitarian and entrepreneurial leader who promotes a vision of peace based on universal principles and values shared by the world’s great religious and cultural traditions. Moon graduated from the Harvard Business School with an M.B.A. in 1998. He was born in South Korea but has made the United States his home where he is a citizen.
Moon founded the Global Peace Foundation in 2009 and is active as its chairman.
The Global Peace Foundation is an international non-sectarian, non-partisan, nonprofit organization with a stated mission to promote "an innovative, values-based approach to peacebuilding, guided by the vision that all humanity is 'One Family under God'." The Foundation's programs aim to facilitate intercultural and interreligious cooperation, strengthen families and communities, and foster a culture of service and peace.
In guiding the Global Peace Foundation's initiatives, Moon has asserted that the realization of a peaceful world requires not just a cessation of conflict, but clear insights into the causes of war and division, effective approaches to preventing and resolving conflicts rooted in universal principles and values, and a far reaching vision that uplifts free and prosperous civil societies.
Moon has been involved in the campaign for Korean unification for a decade. In 2014, Moon wrote the book Korean Dream: A Vision for a Unified Korea. The book calls for greater public engagement with the unification issue through the activities of civil society organizations working in partnership with government. Shortly after the book's publication, in an interview with The Korea Times newspaper, Moon stressed that all Koreans should be interested and involved in the process of Korean peninsula re-unification. On November 20, 2014, the Korean Culture and Arts Publications recognized Korean Dream: A Vision for a Unified Korea as "Book of the Year" in the society category. An English version was published in January 2017.
In an opinion piece published in The Sunday Guardian in September 2016, Moon described the book as shifting the focus from technical questions of process to clarifying the end goal of unification. "I ask what type of new nation should Koreans aspire to establish, and what shared vision and enduring principles should guide them towards it," Moon wrote.
He presented the ancient Korean mantra "Hongik Ingan," meaning "to broadly benefit humanity," as the guiding vision for civic society in working toward unification.
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