"We have to provide quality education to our youth... Let us nurture them in developing moral
conviction, the ability to meet life's daily challenges, and a sense of responsibility for the
betterment of society as a whole. Let us educate them to become people of integrity."

Dr. Sun Myung Moon, Philosophy of Education


Riga


1-Day IEF-UPF Workshop in Baltics

6th of March, 2006 in Riga in a just opened new building of Embassy of Peace has passed 1-day workshop entitled “Moral Leadership as the Foundation for World Peace”, which has collected 20 participants from Latvia and Lithuania.

With the salutatory word the seminar was opened by the president of the International Educational Foundation (IEF) Dr. Joon Ho Seuk. And lectures have been given by Mr. Jack Corley the General secretary of the Eurasian branch of the Universal Peace Federation and IEF vice-president, and also Clifford Yank IEF Eurasia President. Their reports "Necessity of moral and spiritual Education", "Causes and Resolution of Conflicts" and "Universal Values as the Basis for World Peace" emphasized a conducting role of a moral-ethical component of concept "leadership".

At the end of the workshop the ceremony was held, during which the ranks "The Ambassador for Peace" have received the Chief of Sociology Faculty of the Riga University by Stradynya, PhD Psychology Sandra Irgena, private businessman Natalia Bondina and pediatrician-doctor Lidia Shusterian. Thus, now in Latvia 9 Ambassadors for Peace already.


The organizers and participants of a Workshop "Moral Leadership as the Foundation for World Peace"


The IEF president with the salutatory word to the participants of a workshop "Moral Leadership as the Foundation for World Peace"


The report of Jack Corley, IEF vice-president on a theme "Causes and Resolution of Conflicts"


The IEF Eurasia President Clifford Yank with the report on a theme "Moral values as the basis for world peace"


The IEF vice-president and three new ambassadors for peace of Latvia after solemn ceremony of rewarding


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