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The World Peace Foundation was created in 1910 under the directorship of Edwin D. Mead [1] and financed by Edwin Ginn, a wealthy publisher, who initially named it the International School of Peace. Ginn felt that massive financial investments in war should be matched by, at least, modest investments in Kant's notion of peace via democracy ...
The larger world peace process and its foundational elements are addressed in the document The Promise of World Peace, written by the Universal House of Justice. [31] Statue of Buddha in the Darjeeling Peace Pagoda, India. This pagoda was designed by Japanese Buddhist monk Nichidatsu Fujii to unite people of all beliefs in their search for ...
With his colleague at the World Peace Foundation, Bridget Conley, and the legal group Global Rights Compliance, de Waal pushed for stronger legal measures to call perpetrators of starvation to account. [17] De Waal has exposed and condemned the use of starvation as a weapon in Tigray, Ethiopia, Sudan and Gaza. [18] [19]
It was founded in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon in Seoul, South Korea, as the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (HSA-UWC; 세계기독교통일신령협회); in 1994, the organization changed its name to the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification (FFWPU; 세계평화통일가정연합).
Also in 2005, Global Country of World Peace purchased the 27-acre (110,000 m 2) Prairie Peace Park in Pleasant Dale, Nebraska. GCWP had planned to build a 12,000-square-foot (1,100 m 2) "peace palace" on the site. An article in August 2010 in the Journal Star reported that the property was for sale for $95,000. [40]
This list of peace prizes is an index to articles on notable prizes awarded for contributions towards achieving or maintaining peace. The list is organized by region and country of the sponsoring organization, but many of the prizes are open to people from around the world.
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.” [2] [3] GPF partners with government ministries, [4] [5] community and faith-based organizations, [6] and United Nations offices [7] to develop and execute programs in 20 countries.
Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe is an Ethiopian peace researcher who as of 2021, was a senior fellow at the World Peace Foundation, Tufts University. [1] [2] He was a rebel of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) when the EPRDF was a guerilla army.