Our Impact
Building off decades of work throughout the world, Dr. Shin established the Shin Dae-yong Global Peace Institute. The Institute is encouraged by strides made in improving relations with North Korea in 2018, including a unified “Republic of Korea” team competing in the Winter Olympics and President Donald Trump’s meeting with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and President Donald Trump
The Institute sees these as progressive steps toward the peaceful opening of North Korea to the global community.
Previous attempts to enter into negotiations with the North Korean government have focused wholly on deploying a political solution to achieve denuclearization. The Institute is proposing an innovative approach to establish economic incentives to forge a lasting peace between the two Koreas and welcome North Korea into the modern, capitalist world.
Ambassador Andrew Young addresses members of the Shin Dae-yong Global Peace Institute who were part of a delegation from Atlanta to advise the Nobel Peace Secretariat to consider an Atlanta move
NMF Director of Development, Mac Schmitz, presents United States First Lady Rosalynn Carter with the 2016 Millennium Candler Justice Prize. Mrs. Carter announced the collaboration between Atlanta and Copenhagen where the selection and presentation of the Millennium Candler Prizes would alternate annually.
President and Mrs. Carter wave to the Norwegian people after he received the Nobel Peace Prize.
Our Institute hosted an Economic Peace Summit (EPS) in Rome, Italy in April, 2019. The EPS brought together over 35 business leaders, government officials, and diplomats representing the respective interests of the United States, North and South Korea, Japan, and other Asian nations to discuss possibilities of an economic peace formula in a private enclave. We believe economic development is the key to opening North Korea to the world and removing nuclear stockpiles. This solution necessitates engaging business leaders in dialogue with government officials and diplomats.
Consul General of Norway, Consul General of Japan, Rodney Cook, Consul General of Denmark, and Consul General of Sweden at the 2018 Millennium Candler Prize Ceremony
The headquarters of the Shin Dae-yong Global Peace Institute (currently at the Millennium Gate Museum in Atlanta, GA, USA) is soon to be relocated to the 2-story pedestal of the Peace Pantheon inside Rodney Cook Sr. Park in Historic Vine City. This peace park has an important historical narrative which tells the unique story of Georgia’s founding and peaceful accomplishments over three centuries. The Life-Home of Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. faces this park.
Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony
Georgia and her capital Atlanta are unlike any other land in the world, a true mecca of Peace. If Georgia were a nation, she would be number 5 in Nobel Peace Laureates.
Rodney Cook and NMF Director Peter Irikovsky of Bratislava at the United Nations General Assembly (left) in honor of 2016 Millennium Candler Peace Prize winner Khaliya Aga Khan, addressing the assembly (right).
