Global Peace Foundation

[8][9] GPF programs, which include the Character and Creativity education initiative,[10][11][12] All-Lights Village project,[13][14] Latin American Presidential Mission,[15] International Young Leaders Assembly[16] and Interfaith Alliance to Abolish Human Trafficking (Safe Haven Campaign).

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.

[29] 2010 - 2012 In 2010, GPFF advanced environmental and youth service projects in Kenya and Nepal, including a clean-up of the polluted Nairobi River that gathered thousands of local volunteers,[30] and establishment of the Rift Valley Peace Initiative in a region that witnessed some of the worst outbreaks of ethnic violence following the disputed elections of 2007-08.

The 2011 Global Peace Convention in Seoul, South Korea hosted experts and policy makers from 40 countries with a focus on prospects for Korean unification and scenarios for a post-unification culture.

[35][36][37] 2013 - 2014 The Global Peace Foundation began work in Nigeria in 2013 in response to growing extremist violence with a series of conferences and meetings that gathered prominent Muslim and Christian clerics and traditional rulers.

[42][43] In October 2014, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), UNESCO, the Global Peace Foundation and the Global Young Leaders Academy convened the Asia-Pacific Conference on Youth Volunteerism to Promote Participation, Development and Peace at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok, Thailand.

The convening drew participants from 17 countries—including Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, China, India, Italy, Indonesia, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nepal, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, United Kingdom and United States—to support the new Youth Vision 2025 policy being launched by Nepal's Ministry of Youth and Sports and strengthen existing international service networks and partnerships.

The ongoing emergency volunteer mobilization is part of a long-term strategic development plan for Nepal supported by the Global Peace Foundation, Nepal's Ministry of Youth and Sports, the Asia Pacific Peace and Development Service Alliance, and the Alliance's many international, regional and national public and private partners and youth networks.

[46] United States Global Peace Foundation and the Center for Strategic and International Studies co-hosted a series of forums on the topic of Korean Peninsula Unification in D.C. throughout 2015.

[56] As part of the 2015 earthquake relief efforts in Nepal, Global Peace Foundation helped the collection and distribution of supplies such as bedding, food, and roofing iron.

The conference was endorsed by the Philippines Department of Education and Commission on Higher Education and included a youth peace contest, a coastal cleanup of Manila Bay and the launching of the Global Peace Volunteers project in the country[58] Nigeria In Nigeria, the "One Family Under God" campaign involves Muslims and Christians in retreats that focus not just on having dialogues related to beliefs and theology, but related to actual cooperation at local and community levels.