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Making the World Better for Future Generations

Founders

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PEACE

Peace is concrete action,
not a vague dream.

We must harbor the awareness that all people are our brothers and sisters.
We must think of all the world's problems as our own and have a pioneering spirit to solve them.
A global citizen who embraces the world and lives for the sake of others will feel pain in his heart over the hunger in the world and will try to help others, even it if means sharing the food that is already on his spoon.

The Founders of the Sunhak Peace Prize, Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, have been leading a lifelong journey toward building a global community and a culture of peace. Rev. Moon (b. January 6, 1920) and Mrs. Moon (b. January 6, 1943) were born in North Korea during the turbulent era of global modernization. The two of them had spent a portion of their growing years under Japanese colonialism and undergoing the traumas of the Korean War. They met for the first time and married soon after in 1960.

Rev. Moon, centered on his Christian faith, professed a new interpretation of the Bible, and with it emphasized that all world religions must unite to achieve world peace centered on one God. In 1954, he established a new religious movement called the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (HSA-UWC) in Seoul, South Korea. The fledgling movement started with a small family of disciples in Korea, and then spread to Japan, the United States and Europe by the late 1960s. By the end of the 1970s, the HSA-UWC had been established in all corners of the world.

Rev. Moon has observed human history, as a whole, and presented a blueprint for world peace based on religious history, rather than the political or economic history of humanity. Even long before the discussion of global governance had begun, he proposed a vision of Pax Perpetua, upon which he called for the building of a global community of One Family Under God; and have since established various international non-governmental organizations that have been leading the global community toward realizing world peace.

In 2013, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon founded the Sunhak Peace Prize to continue the legacy left by her husband, the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon, who dedicated his entire life toward realizing world peace, prosperity and coexistence, where humankind thrives as “One Family Under God.”

Discover the Vision of Sunhak Peace Prize Founders

Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon’s Life and Achievements

Founders' Chronology

  • 2010’s

    2019

    World Summit convened around the world including Sao Tome and Principe, Japan, Albania, Cambodia, Niger, USA

    2018

    World Summit convened all around the world including the USA, Senegal, Brazil, South Africa and Nepal

    2017

    Founded the Interreligious Association for Peace and Development

    2016

    Founded the International Association of Parliamentarians for Peace

    2013

    Founded the Sunhak Peace Prize

    2013

    Founded the Hyo Jung World Peace Foundation

    2012

    September 3, Rev. Moon passed away

  • 2000’s

    2007

    Founded the World Peace Center in Pyeongyang

    2007

    Founded Abel UN

    2005

    Founded the Universal Peace Federation & proposed the Bering Strait project

    2003

    Founded the Interreligious and International Peace Council

    2003
    ~2014

    Supported the Middle East Peace Initiative (MEPI)

    2001

    Completed the first production line for Pyeonghwa Motors

    2000

    Founded the American Clergy Leadership Conference

  • 1990’s

    1999

    Founded the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace

    1992

    Founded the Women's Federation for World Peace

    1991

    Met with North Korean President Kim Il-Sung

    1991

    Met with North Korean President Kim Il-Sung

    1990

    Met with Soviet President Gorbachev at the Kremlin

  • 1980’s

    1989

    Founded Segye Times

    1985

    Founded the Assembly of the World Religions

    1985

    Predicted the end of Communism

    1985

    Proposed the International Peace Highway project

    1983

    Founded the Universal Ballet

    1982

    Founded The Washington Times

  • 1970’s

    1979

    Founded the International Relief and Friendship Foundation

    1977

    Held the Conference of World Religions

    1976

    Held the Washington Monument Rally for the US's bicentennial

    1972

    Held the International Conference for the Unity of the Sciences

  • 1960’s

    1968

    Founded the Victory Over Communism movement

    1962

    Founded the Little Angels dance troupe

    1960

    Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon’s Holy Wedding

  • 1920’s
    ~1950’s

    1954

    Rev. Moon founded the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (Becomes the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification in 1997)

    1943

    January 6, Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon is born in South Pyeongan Province

    1920

    January 6, Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon is born in North Pyeongan Province

Sunhak Peace Prize

Future generations refer not only to our own physical descendants
but also to all future generations to come.

Since all decisions made by the current generation will either positively
or negatively affect them, we must take responsibility for our actions.