The second International Professors Educational Conference recently held at the Manila Hotel as part of the broad Global Peace Festival last December 11-13,2007 was participated by thousands of international and national educators from various parts of the world.

The Philippine Teachers’ Association for the Research of Principles (PTARP), headed by Dr. Samuel M. Salvador, hold the 2nd International Professors Educators’ Conference (IPEC) at the Manila Hotel gathering around 2,100 foreign and local top educators. The Conference theme was "Institutionalizing the Culture of Heart in the Family, Schools, and Society."

During the Opening Ceremony held at the Manila Hotel at 9:00 am, 11 December 2007, Dr. Hyun Jin Moon addressed the pool of faculty from various universities and colleges emphasizing the culture of heart as the basic of education.

One commissioner from the Commission on Higher Education spoke, and some representatives from the Department of Education as well as its regional directors which co-hosted the IPEC, tackled some points on Values Education as well.

PTARP which is the major host of the conference aims to generate keen interest in the academe for the promotion and development of Values Education based on universal standards of morality and ethics.

The conference was co-sponsored by the Universal Peace Federation. UPF was founded in the hope of building a world in which peoples, cultures and races, religions, and nationalities live together in harmony, mutual respect cooperation and universal co-prosperity.

Dr Thomas Walsh from UPF USA presented a introduction about UPF during the program. Global Peace Festival (GPF 2007) was initiated by UPF to fulfill a vision with the theme, "One Family Under God".