This presentation will discuss the initiatives of Won Buddhists from South Korea who founded
the Interfaith Coalition Conference for Global Citizens as a creative response to the crisis of the
Covid pandemic. In 2000 we met online to discuss the future of religion after Covid and
launched a movement to develop a sense of global citizenship in diverse contexts. After meeting
again online in 2001 about 2002, we met in person in Seoul in August 2023, where The
Honourable Ban Ki-moon, former secretary general of the United Nations, delivered the keynote
address. The presentation will conclude by discussing the ICCGC's collaboration with the
Conference of Non-Governmental Organizations in Consultative Relationship with the United
Nations (CoNGO) in co-hosting an international interreligious conference on "Global Action on
Peace, Sustainability, and Prosperity" at the Church Center of the United Nations in August
2024. The goal of the conference was "to pursue peace, human security, dignity, and planetary
sustainability" through fostering collaboration and solidarity among religious communities in
diverse contexts around the world; at the conclusion we issued a consensus declaration: "A Call
to Global Community and Action for a Just, Peaceable, Inclusive, and Sustainable World."