GPF Newsletter

A Response to Religious and Ethnic Conflict

The thirty-year-old conflict in Mindanao province in the Philippines has never commanded the world’s attention, despite the massive scale of violence and loss of life. Since 1969, when the fighting between Muslim separatists and the armed forces began under the Marcos regime, the Mindanao conflict has left 160,000 dead and displaced some two million people. More...

Cleaning Together to Establish Culture of Peace

On May 17 a pproximately 180 people gathered to clean Ishigaki Ike Park in Mie, Japan. It had been raining for two days until the early morning of May 17. Fortunately the sun came out from 8am and it became a hot day by the time the event began. More...

Recycling Bottle Caps to Prevent Diseases

A group of volunteers went for their usual routine in search for plastic bottle caps in the town. The volunteers asked shops and collected bottle caps from rubbish bins beside vending machines in front of the shops. Knowing the volunteers come around, people who do not know where to take the bottle caps bring them to the volunteers. More...

Coming Together for Peace through Soccer in Kenya

In a growing grassroots movement for peace following the disputed 2007 Kenya presidential election, YFWP-Kenya co-sponsored a soccer tournament and service initiative in the western Matunda area that brought together some 70,000 people under the banner “Come Together to Reason Together. More...

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