Global Peace Foundation

Gpf americas region expense in the americas, gpf significantly invested in community safety, cross-community reconciliation, and leadership development: projects funded by the u.s. Department of homeland security, such as safe communities, safer youth, safer maryland campaign, and the behavioral threat assessment model project, continued to strengthen local capacity for preventing targeted violence and mass casualty events by training community members and youth-serving organizations to recognize risk factors. The baltimore cross-community engagement project and the montana cross-community engagement pilot continued to bridge divides and strengthen relationships between diverse communities, addressing racial discrimination and fostering empathy. Gpf continued its vital role in promoting international religious freedom, co-convening the annual washington d.c.-based international religious freedom summit and participating in numerous domestic and overseas ministerials and roundtables. In latin america, gpf continued to support the latin american presidential mission, an association of former heads of state dedicated to good governance, sustainable development, and social stability. "prospects for greater economic and cultural engagements: latin americau.s.asia-pacific region" forum gathered leaders in politics, economics, environment, academia, and business to strengthen international cooperation. Latin american forum of ideas engaged 50+ leaders including former presidents, multiple tracks (migration, environment, education), and showed strong follow-up momentum. Brazil saw ongoing engagement of local community members through "conversations that connect" dialogue series, family festivals, and various in-person workshops promoting global exchange and community change. Gpf also continued its participation in united nations economic and social council (ecosoc) discussions, focusing on education, entrepreneurship, and environmental challenges. Women's leadership was uplifted through virtual conferences that convened women from across the region, emphasizing their role as catalysts for peace and development in addressing corruption, child protection, economic freedom, and entrepreneurship.

South and southeast asia: this region saw substantial investment in youth empowerment, education, and community development: the global peace leadership corps activities were prominent, with the 12th global youth summit that gathered over 24,000 youth in pressing societal concerns related to un sustainable development goals. It covered 17 provinces across the philippines, culminating in the final event in manila. Five young leaders were awarded seed grants totaling p250,000 to support their sustainability projects. Youth volunteerism and service learning programs were actively implemented, including the peacebook library project, englished project, and greened (environmental teaching) project, fostering ecological responsibility among youth in indonesia, malaysia, philippines, and cambodia. The u-gen summit in indonesia continued to raise awareness about youth engagement in peace and development, involving hundreds of students from partner university campuses. The young bridging leaders challenge served as an international online workshop to raise youth peacebuilding capacity, engaging young leaders from multiple countries. In india, the global peace leadership conference highlighted youth empowerment, transforming education, values-based peacebuilding, and environmental conservation. Outcomes included the launch of a peace hubs campaign and youth-led peace clubs to promote youth leadership development, with over 3,700 youth participating in peace clubs. Wash (water, sanitation, and hygiene) projects educated children on hygiene and distributed personal care products. Nepal continued its engagement of over 2,000 volunteers, interns, and students in peacebuilding through programs like moral and innovative leadership workshops and the global peacebuilders leadership program. Project saksham and project shakti supported women's leadership and personal development. Experts were engaged in solid waste management, assisting communities with sustainable practices like composting. In the philippines, the all-lights villages project continued to uplift community organizing in remote areas, engaging thousands of participants. Malaysia continued its wash program for orang asli indigenous communities, providing education on water management and hygiene, and installing water infrastructure to alleviate the burden on women and girls. Cambodia advanced its safe water safe bottle project, providing primary school students with clean drinking water and promoting reusable bottles. The one book one love campaign brought literature to children living in poverty.

Africa:africa saw comprehensive efforts in youth empowerment, education, women's leadership, and environmental peacebuilding, often through the african renaissance initiative (ari). Over 800 volunteers, 300 expert facilitators, and 120 institutional partners supported ari's 2024 delivery: global peace leadership conference, nairobi, kenya engaged over 200 high level delegates including a high number of youth representatives, including faith leaders, educators, government officials and civil society leaders, as well as ngos from across the region. More than 50 sessions were facilitated including a regional roundtable briefing on preventing violent extremism. 60% of the delegates were youth representatives across the various conference tracks. In kenya, the great places to school program, a research-based rating system, continued to identify schools contributing to holistic child development, with the 3rd annual gala recognizing outstanding educators and schools. The transforming education summit explored integrating ethics and workplace skills into education, supported by the kenya ministry of education and other partners. The million tree growing campaign continued to combat desertification, engaging thousands of volunteers and community members in partnership with key environmental stakeholders. Kenya donated 3,000 tree seedlings in the standard chartered nairobi marathon, contributing to the kenyan government's goal of growing 15 billion trees by 2032. Nigeria focused on peaceful elections, raising awareness through interactive sessions. The hope builders festival empowered youth, nurtured interfaith harmony, and promoted community development, emphasizing skill-building initiatives for economic stability and entrepreneurship. The peaceful coexistence radio campaign continued to reduce identity-based conflict among christian and muslim communities, reaching millions of listeners. Training sessions were held to establish women's cooperative societies for economic empowerment, introducing women from diverse backgrounds to income generation principles. Youth were empowered in entrepreneurial development through a mentorship and training program, engaging 60 participants. Uganda continued to engage over 1,000 educators in transforming education professional development webinars and workshops. It provided skills training and support services for adolescent young mothers to increase their income generation skills. The launch of "waste plus," a youth-driven recycling initiative, was recognized with a social enterprise award, highlighting environmental stewardship. Peace clubs were endorsed by the first lady and ministry of education. Tanzania partnered with the jane goodall institute for tree-planting projects with young volunteers, uplifting their role in preserving natural resources. The vijana na amani 255 (youth and peace) campaign, launched with the un development programme, provided peacebuilding education to youth to counter radicalization. The "mamahodari" initiative supported single mothers with social support and economic empowerment. The countering financing of terrorism project continued to raise awareness within the nonprofit sector about preventing terrorism and financing violent extremism, training over 300 local organizations. Across the continent, gpf continued to organize ubuntu clubs & community dialogues, fostering youth-led service and social cohesion projects in schools and communities.