Global Peace Foundation (GPF)

About us

Founded in 2009, Global Peace Foundation (GPF) is an international non-sectarian, non-partisan, nonprofit organization, which promotes an innovative, values-based approach to peace building, guided by the vision of One Family under God. GPF engages and organizes a global network of public and private sector partners who develop community, national, and regional peace building models as the foundation for ethical and cohesive societies.
Through partnerships with organizations around the world, GPF India organises programs that facilitate intercultural and inter-religious cooperation, strengthen communities, and foster a culture of service and peace.
The Global Peace Foundation is committed to a multi-sector collaborative approach and our activities are organised around the focus areas of social cohesion and peacebuilding, moral and innovative leadership and empowering families in collaboration with government, and faith-based partners.

Our mission
The Global Peace Foundation affirms the importance of universally recognized principles and shared values as essential to building social cohesion within nations and the global community.

What we do
• Model Development Initiatives: The Global Peace Foundation brings together experts and innovators to advance new approaches to providing human services in communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. These initiatives involve local communities in the investment and guidance of programs to advance education and vocational training, and support start-up business ventures.
• Moral and Innovative Leadership: Great movements for social change, political reform and human rights have brought transformational development through visionary and principled leaders like Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Recognition of the inherent worth of all people as members of One Family under God can lead to consensus on values and form the basis for social harmony and community cooperation.
• Social Cohesion and Peacebuilding: Extremist ideologies and identity-based conflicts disrupt communities, inflict suffering on innocent lives and further impoverish peoples with limited economic opportunities. GPF builds broad-based partnerships to build a social consensus based on shared principles and values in regions particularly vulnerable to conflict.
• Empowering Families: Loss of traditional social structures, underdevelopment and lack of opportunity, and weakening of the family undermine the promise of youth as potentially the greatest resource for positive social change. Addressing these challenges requires comprehensive engagement of government, civic and faith-based organizations, and schools.
• Global Peace Convention: The Global Peace Convention advances innovative responses to the challenges of conflict and underdevelopment by drawing upon the expertise of government, faith-based, and civil society partners, and by involving stakeholders from affected regions.
• Women Empowerment: In every society, women play a central role in building and maintaining harmony within the family and strengthening social cohesion within communities. Affirming that “peace begins in the home,” the Global Peace Foundation seeks to engage women

Programs:
• Facets Of Faith: This program is an attempt to bridge the differences among the individuals belonging to different communities and religion.
• Connecting The Dots: Connecting the Dots is an attempt to build social cohesion and peace in societies and communities by engaging the youth in meaningful activities. These activities have been designed in such a way that the participants belonging from different backgrounds will be given a platform to work together for peace building irrespective of their caste, creed, religion, race, class etc
• Smile: GPF India with its partner launch “Smile” community base program for balmiki community of Karolbagh New Delhi with the theme of “Learn, Understand and Execute on December,2018. The goal of the Program is to build social cohesion within a diverse local community, mitigate sources of conflict and drive community development in partnership with youth leaders and local stakeholder groups. Engaging faith and traditional community leaders, youth and women leaders, and government representatives, the program works to build social cohesion, peace, and transforms attitudes and behaviors of individuals and groups to foster community engagement, create opportunities for collaboration and thereby drive grassroots, community development.
• International Youth Exchange Program: GPF India, in collaboration with FK Norway, and GPYC Nepal is organizing fully sponsored project “Youth For Peace”- a exchange program with a view to develop critical awareness among the youth about reality and challenges and engage them in social actions in a different culture and community for peace so that the youth participants develop unique skills, knowledge and experiences.It also aims to facilitate collective learning process about building sustainable peace and educating others.

Sri. Dhruba Prasad Lamichhane is the National Representative of Global Peace Foundation - India (GPF - India).

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