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The Ambassadors for Peace Initiative is a worldwide network of leaders dedicated to transcending racial, religious and ethnic boundaries to promote a world of genuine peace. Launched in 2001, Ambassadors for Peace has become the world's largest and most diverse network of peace leaders. They come from all walks of life representing all races, religions, nationality and cultures, and commit themselves to:
- Stand on the common ground of universal moral principles, committed to promoting reconciliation, overcoming barriers, and building peace.
- Form a global network of leaders representing the religious, racial, and ethnic diversity of the human family, as well as all disciplines of human endeavor.
- Participate in peace initiatives and programs that promote reconciliation and cooperation beyond traditional boundaries of religion, race, ethnicity, and nationality.
- Promote and practice the ethic of “living for the sake of others” as the guiding principle for building world peace and a global community.
The network of Ambassadors for Peace includes a wide variety of people, such as diplomats, clergy, civic leaders, artists, athletes, students, scholars, lawyers, health professionals, businessmen, journalists, and current and former heads of state.
The Ambassadors for Peace principles can be summarized as follows:
- God - We are one human family created by God.
- Spirituality - The highest qualities of the human being are spiritual and moral.
- Family - The family is the "school of love and peace."
- Service - Living for the sake of others
- Unity - Peace comes through cooperation beyond the boundaries of ethnicity, religion, and nationality.
Read below what Ambassadors for Peace in the United States are doing.
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Written by Gerry Eitner
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 14:00 |
 Gerry Eitner Some spiritual paths view life as a “dream”, with each human being as the creative dreamer. If we are indeed all here making it up, how can we create a more evolved level of community, evoking the utmost expression of love from each person?
In both Eastern and Western traditions, the experience of life as a dream peeks through, usually at the tip of the mystical traditions. The Hindu tradition speaks of life as “maya”, or the illusion. The Course in Miracles, coming out of Western thought, provides a framework for a new teaching from Jesus. The teaching posits a structure of each person walking through a pre-structured construct or dream, set up by the person’s higher Self before he or she came here.
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Written by Cheryl Wetzstein
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 14:00 |
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Social science overwhelmingly supports the idea that marriage is a valuable institution.
Compared with other groups, married men and women are more likely to be wealthy and healthy, live longer lives, and have high levels of sexual satisfaction and low levels of depression and suicide, Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher wrote in "The Case for Marriage: Why Married People are Happier, Healthier and Better Off Financially," which was published in 2000.
Marriage especially benefits children: Those in married-parent homes are at low risk for living in poverty or suffering neglect or abuse, the women wrote. They are more likely to do well in school and avoid risky behaviors, such as premature sexual activity and drug and alcohol abuse.
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Written by Gail Paine
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 08:00 |
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I used to have a dream when I was a child. I imagined a gigantic, heavenly, gentle tornado sweeping around the world mixing everyone up and plopping people down in places completely foreign to their original home. This was my childish solution to having us realize that we are all basically the same internally, all having similar hopes and desires in life.
I was very excited to participate in the recent Peace Tour IV because it seemed to be the fulfillment of my dream! 174 American Ambassadors for Peace traveled to many parts of the world assisting Father and Mother Moon to disseminate their peace message.
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Written by Dr. Greg Stanton
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Sunday, 01 April 2007 08:00 |
 Dr. Greg StantonGenocide is the world’s worst intentional human rights problem. But it is different from other problems and requires different solutions. Because genocide is almost always carried out by a country’s own military and police forces, the usual national forces of law and order cannot stop it. International intervention is usually required. But because the world lacks an international rapid response force, and because the United Nations has so far been either paralyzed or unwilling to act, genocide has gone unchecked.
“Never again” has turned into “Again and again.” Again and again, the response to genocide has been too little and too late.
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Written by Bento Leal
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Wednesday, 06 September 2006 23:00 |
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On Saturday evening, September 9, 2006, an Ambassadors for Peace Potluck Dinner was held at the Bay Area Family Church in San Leandro, California. Seventy Ambassadors for Peace and others enjoyed a delicious, multi-ethnic potluck dinner buffet featuring dishes from India, the Philippines, Japan, France, and other nations.
This was followed by a new 14-minute AFP introductory video that showed the breadth of AFP activities worldwide, with particular focus on the important AFP work in the Middle East bringing Jewish, Christian, and Muslim religious leaders together to dialogue a pathway to peace.
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Written by Rev. Anthony Flores
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Thursday, 01 June 2006 13:41 |
 Rev. Anthony J. Flores at the podium On May 27th in Columbus, Ohio there was a wonderful gathering of Ambassadors for Peace at the Clarion Hotel. Dr. William Craig, Board Member for the American Family Coalition of Ohio Inc. and Chairman of the Ambassador for Peace Association of Ohio served as moderator for the opening session of the program. Dr. Craig did a marvelous job of presenting the vision of our founder while listing a number of Rev. Moon’s accomplishments and efforts to realize a world of peace. He quickly reviewed the program agenda and carefully articulated the purpose of this event – emphasizing that this Ambassadors for Peace Summit is a part of the historic second World Tour being lead by the Rev. and Mrs. Sun Myung Moon.
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Written by Gail Paine
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Thursday, 01 June 2006 11:00 |
An important and timely forum entitled “A Call for New Faith-Based Leadership: Advancing Interfaith Dialogue and Service to Prevent Conflict,” was held on April 26, 2006 at The Washington Times Beech Room, The forum, which followed a major International Conference on Faith and Service recently convened in Washington, was sponsored by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF), the Points of Light Foundation (POLF), and the United Press International Foundation (UPI).
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Written by Gail Paine and Jim Brown
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Thursday, 01 June 2006 02:00 |
 Mr. Brett Dungan(4th from left) with his family Brett Dungan is an Ambassador for Peace (AFP) business leader with the enthusiasm of a teacher, the zeal of a preacher and a fatherly care and concern for others. He exemplifies the AFP principles in the business world and was recently honored with a national level award. The National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), the nation’s largest small-business advocacy group, named Alabama’s Brett Dungan its 2006 Southeast Region Small-Business Champion. Dungan, president and CEO of Master Marine in Bayou La Batre, was recognized for his activism at the state and national levels, his devotion to encouraging entrepreneurship, and his strong commitment to his community, most recently through his tireless work to help fellow business owners along the Gulf Coast recover in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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