Movement for World Peace
Today, world affairs are complex and interwoven. Surveying the history of humankind, we can observe that the world has never seen the day when freedom, true peace, and happiness have been realized. On the contrary, communism, while proclaiming economic equality, has exploited human labor, blotted out human rights, and ultimately led science and technology nowhere, creating despair and poverty.
Moreover, it is commonly known that capitalism, which has confronted communism under the banner of freedom, suffers from egotism and moral corruption. With the collapse of communism in the early 1990s, the world appeared to have begun emerging from the Cold War. However, deep-rooted antagonism, and religious or racial friction, still lead to the outbreak of both civil conflicts and wars between neighboring countries.
Reverend Moon has constantly endeavored to heal the suffering that results from this terrible legacy of conflict. He initiated the International Highway Project which is planned to expand to the Middle East and Europe via China. He has also shown a keen interest in the difficulties encountered by minority groups, and set up the Minority Alliance in the United States. Moreover, he has invited present and former presidents and prime ministers from around the world to attend the annual Summit Council for World Peace. More recently still he organized the Federation for World Peace with the cooperation of these same world leaders. The Women's Federation for World Peace was also established.
Reverend Moon has asserted that if human history had progressed in accordance with God's will, there would be no conflict, no exploitation and no oppression in the world today. He has also emphasized that humanity should do its utmost to rid the world of these blights and so ultimately achieve freedom, happiness, and peace. Additionally, he has proclaimed the philosophies of God-centered true love, and Head-wing thought, which rectify the errors of right and left-wing ideologies. He believes in the fundamental path of true love as the one which can lead this world to peace. Only through true love, which pursues the public good rather than individual interests, can we finally solve the dreadful problems of racial antagonism, violence, conflict between the rich and the poor, and environmental destruction.
Federation for World Peace
*REV.SUN MYUNG MOON GIVING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT THE INAUGURATION OF THE FEDERATION FOR WORLD PEACE
Two thousand distinguished guests, including former heads of state plus other representatives from fifty-one nations, religious leaders and scholars, attended the inauguration of the Federation for World Peace held in Seoul on August 28, 1991. On that occasion, Reverend Moon emphasized that FWP should rediscover God, whom humankind had lost, and build families, societies, nations and a world centered on true love. He also emphasized that the federation should be a beacon for the enlightenment of humankind, the elevation of morality, and the realization of world peace for the coming twenty-first century of public service, mutual prosperity and common purpose: these were the goals the federation was to pursue.
Women's Federation for World Peace
*PRESIDENT HAK JA HAN MOON GIVING THE KEYNOTE ADDRESS AT THE FOUNDING RALLY OF THE WOMEN'S FEDERATION FOR
WORLD
PEACE (WFWP) HELD AT THE OLYMPIC MAIN STADIUM IN CHAMSHIL ON APRIL 10, 1992
The founding rally for the Women's Federation for World Peace (WFWP) was held at the Olympic Main Stadium in Seoul on April 10, 1992. WFWP has exerted itself for a harmonized culture of men and women centered on true love, through working to remove the man-centered "culture of power." The Women's Federation also continues with its task to help all women of the world realize that women should, through helping their husbands and children, bear the fruit of the ideal family centered on true love. Thus, the Women's Federation has been at the forefront of the true love movement, setting up sisterhood relationships between Korean and Japanese women, and between Japanese and American Women. Together, these produced over ten thousand sister-relationships in the years 1993 and 1994.
International Highway Project
* CUTTING THE TAPE AT THE INITIATION OF CONSTRUCTION
Reverend Moon first proposed the construction of an International Highway of Peace while expressing his commitment to
world peace during his founder's address at the 10th International Conference on the Unity of the Science (ICUS), held in
Seoul in 1981. Supported by a thousand scholars from both East and West, the Japan-Korea Tunnel Research Institute and
the International Highway Construction Corporation were set up to substantially embark upon the project. In 1985, plans
were drawn up for an undersea tunnel connecting Korea and Japan, and pilot digging was begun in advance of construction
of a two-hundred kilometer tunnel between Kyushu in Japan and the Korean peninsula. Contending that without peace with
one's neighboring country, there can be no peace in one's own, the International Highway, with its mission of fostering peace
across national boundaries, will finally extend to Europe via Japan, the Korean peninsula, China, the Middle East, and Russia.
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