That would guarantee fundamental human rights, Hyun-jin Moon, GPF co-chairman, told an audience of thousands at the National Mall. The idea that we are "endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights" means that human rights cannot be abridged by governments, he said.

Thousands of peacemakers came to celebrate peace on the lawn of the US Capitol Saturday at the Global Peace Festival USA. The gathering, billed as the largest interfaith and multicultural event ever held in Washington DC, was the second in a series of fifteen Global Peace Festivals this year, with the next planned for late August in Nairobi, Kenya.

Washington, D.C - A new movement called the Global Peace Initiative was launched in America on August 9th on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building. It is a movement that is destined to be loved by Americans because it affirms values close to the heart of the American people: faith in God, compassion for all, and family as the basis for love and peace.

It is movement that reminds me of what happened in America at the Lincoln Memorial 45 years ago, when Dr. King made a statement that changed the course of history: “I have a dream that is deeply rooted in the American dream, I have a dream that one day America will live out the full meaning of its creed. We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal.”

Washington, DC - While the U.S. Congress debates strategies for peace in the world, a model of peace among nations and races came to the backyard of the U.S. Capitol on August 6. Hosted by the Global Peace Festival, a district-wide day of service enlisted an inter-religious, international cadre of young men and women who braved Washington’s torrid summer heat to make a statement for peace.

More than 1000 area youth went to work throughout the district in service projects coordinated by the U.S. National Parks Service, the Boys and Girls Clubs, the National Arboretum, the DC Office on Aging, Washington Parks and People, and the Anacostia Watershed Conservancy, among others. The Day of Service was the first act of a new nationwide GPF service initiative: “A Million Acts of Service and Kindness,” conceived by the Points of Light Institute, a founding partner of the GPF.