GPLC Plenary
In every generation, there are young people who carry the potential to transform their communities, but potential alone isn’t enough. What they need are values to anchor them, skills to elevate them, and opportunities that challenge them to think beyond borders. Around the world, many young people are eager to lead, yet they often lack platforms that nurture their moral confidence and global awareness.
This is where the Global Peace Foundation (GPF) steps in.
GPF’s global youth ecosystem is built on a simple conviction: when young people are guided by universal values and equipped with practical skills, they become some of the world’s most powerful drivers of peace, innovation, and social change. With volunteerism at its core, coupled with leadership training, international conferences, skills development programs, and service-learning platforms, GPF empowers youth not only to dream but to act, serve, and lead with purpose.
IYLA at EastWest Institute
At the heart of GPF’s youth is the Values-Based Leadership model. Whatever the initiative is, the global peace values framework takes its roots. With values such as Living for the Greater Good, Dream Big, Ownership, and Teamwork, GPF youths are committed to being moral and innovative leaders. These values form the moral bedrock upon which they learn to lead with clarity, empathy, and integrity.
GPF’s flagship platforms, including Global Peace Leadership Corps, Global Peace Volunteers (GPV), International Young Leaders Assembly (IYLA), and Global Peacebuilders Practicum (GPP), enable the youth participants to develop essential leadership skills as collaboration, conflict resolution, self-awareness, ethical decision-making, and community engagement. These programs are designed to shape leaders who understand that meaningful change must be rooted in values; values that uplift both the individual and the community.
GPV-Indonesia
Besides this, a defining strength of GPF’s youth ecosystem is its ability to bring young leaders together from around the world, creating networks of collaboration that transcend geography, politics, and culture. The Global Peace Convention (GPC) and youth summits that GPF organizes help connect leaders across borders, bringing together leaders, experts, educators, peacebuilders, and youths. Through plenaries, youth dialogues, workshops, and leadership sessions, participants exchange ideas, build partnerships, and envision what a peaceful, equitable future could look like together.
These global platforms serve as catalysts. They expand perspectives, deepen empathy, and encourage young people to see themselves not just as citizens of their nation, but as contributors to humanity’s shared future.
GPLC 2023 Youth Participants
Additionally, leadership training alone isn’t transformative unless it is applied. Therefore, through the Global Peace Volunteers network, youth take their learning into communities, leading service projects, engaging in cross-cultural collaboration, and addressing local issues with creativity and compassion.
Initiatives such as the Global Peacebuilders Practicum and the Global Peace Leadership Corps offer empowerment through hands-on experience in peacebuilding or service programs. From facilitating community dialogues to managing youth-led initiatives, participants practice the values and skills they’ve developed, ensuring leadership moves from theory to action.
This cycle of Train → Connect → Serve of GPF creates a measurable and lasting impact. It helps young people internalize that leadership is not a title; it is a daily practice of contributing to the well-being of others.
In today’s current world situation with its own problems and issues, we need new leaders and a newer perspective. Who are more suited than the youth? Youths who are morally grounded, globally aware, resilient, and driven by service. GPF’s youth programs cultivate this kind of leadership.
IYLA at the World Bank
Investing in youth leadership today is not an option; it is an imperative. A single empowered young leader can influence their peers, transform communities, and contribute to long-term peace and development. Multiply that by thousands across continents, and you build a global movement.
Support us in continuing our initiatives that foster service-minded leaders. When you support GPF’s youth programs, you make it possible to:
- Expand global youth conferences and international exchanges
- Support volunteer networks and community service initiatives
- Build leadership trainings that nurture moral and practical skills
- Equip young people with tools to create real social impact
Your contribution strengthens the global ecosystem that turns youth potential into leadership, service, and transformation. Behind every young leader is a community that believes in them, and GPF believes in the youth. If you believe that, then your support matters now more than ever.
