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Sunday, October 17, 2010

From small coins, big hope. Dr. Moon demonstrates the Power of Rupiah

 

Jakarta - Clouds of dragonflies spiraled upward in the sticky afternoon air at Jakarta's Gelora Bung Karno stadium Sunday as thousands of young Indonesians streamed through the entrances and into their seats. An estimated ten thousand gathered to celebrate the Global Peace Festival Asia Pacific 2010.

 

They came from area campuses that had been engaged in GPFF sponsored service projects for peace in the run-up to the festival, and from the youth branch of Nadhlatul Ulama (NU), the Muslim civic organization partnering with GPFF in the festival.

 

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Saturday, October 16, 2010
Vice President Boediono of Indonesia
Vice President Boediono of Indonesia
 

Jakarta - The interfaith conference held in the Indonesian capital broke new ground for GPFF. It was the first time that the organization had collaborated so closely with a major Muslim organization, an important step in advancing the interfaith component of GPFF's program.


Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and GPFF jointly hosted a conference on the theme: "One Family under God: A New Interfaith Paradigm for the 21st Century" from October 15-18, 2010, as well as a Global Peace Festival in a city stadium on Sunday 17 October. The importance of this initiative for the country of Indonesia was registered by the Vice President's presence at the opening.

 

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Korea's Development Role a Draw in Seoul

 

Korean elder statesman Dr. Ki-taek Lee welcomes guests as president of GPLC Korea 2010

Korean elder statesman Dr. Ki-taek Lee welcomes guests as president of GPLC Korea 2010
Monday, October 11, 2010
Seoul - If the overflow crowd at the opening of the Global Peace Leadership Conference (GPLC) Korea 2010 is anything to judge by, the organizers had hit on a hot topic. As Korea prepares to host the G-20 summit next month, questions about Korea's role in the world and the lessons to be learnt from Korea's development experience are being discussed more widely.

The opening banquet was expected to draw 350 guests but about 150 more turned up requiring the rapid setting up of an overflow room as the conference tackled its theme of "Effective Models of Balanced Development: The Korean Experience.

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Youth Resolution Takes Flight in Seoul
Youth Resolution Takes Flight in Seoul

Seoul, Korea -- Suddenly the air was filled with hundreds of paper airplanes at the International Youth Convention (IYC) in Seoul Tuesday night. No, discipline had not broken down among the students and young professionals attending the conference. The flight of the airplanes at the close of the event was a symbol of the launching of a movement for peace.

The more than 500 participants from over a dozen countries signed a resolution for building a global peace community. The signed papers were then folded and launched. The whole event provided a jolt of youthful energy to several of the international participants in the Global Peace Leadership Conference (GPLC) Korea 2010 who joined the youth convention for the evening.


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Dr. Manu Chandaria receives the Global Peace Award in Seoul
 

Seoul - The nation of Korea may live in a dangerous neighborhood, on a divided peninsula with a nuclear-armed hereditary Stalinist state to the north. The war the two Koreas fought from 1950-53 has technically never been concluded by a peace treaty. Yet South Korea views the future with a degree of anxious hope.


In November the country will host the G-20 summit, the first time it has been held outside the West. For Korea this is something of a coming-out party as it also moved from the status of aid recipient to donor nation recently.

 

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