About Culture Masters

Culture, Humanity, and the Future of Coexistence

Culture Masters (CM) is an international platform dedicated to cultural diversity, living heritage, human formation, and peaceful coexistence.

Founded on the belief that culture is one of humanity’s most important resources for building sustainable and peaceful societies, Culture Masters promotes cultural leadership, intercultural dialogue, community participation, and human-centered development across generations.

Originally established to recognize cultural masters, heritage communities, and cultural practitioners, Culture Masters has gradually expanded its mission in response to the profound challenges facing the twenty-first century.

Rapid technological transformation, artificial intelligence, democratic fragility, social polarization, declining trust, and growing uncertainty about the future have created a new global question:

How do human beings learn to live together?

Culture Masters believes that culture, education, participation, and human formation provide essential answers to this question.

Our Vision

A Human-Centered Future

To build human-centered futures where culture, democracy, technology, and peace work together to strengthen human dignity, coexistence, and shared humanity.

Our Mission

What We Set Out To Do

  • Promote cultural diversity and living heritage.
  • Strengthen human formation and coexistence capacities.
  • Support human-centered approaches to artificial intelligence.
  • Advance a culture of peace through education, culture, and participation.
  • Foster democratic resilience, social trust, and intercultural dialogue.
  • Connect communities, institutions, and future generations through shared responsibility.
Strategic Focus Areas

Where We Concentrate Our Work

1

Living Heritage and Cultural Communities

Supporting cultural practitioners, living heritage communities, traditional knowledge holders, and local cultural ecosystems.

2

Human Formation and Future Education

Developing educational approaches that cultivate empathy, responsibility, creativity, participation, and coexistence.

3

Human-Centered AI and Digital Citizenship

Promoting ethical and human-centered approaches to artificial intelligence, digital culture, and technological futures.

4

Culture of Peace and Democratic Coexistence

Strengthening trust, participation, dialogue, and social cohesion through cultural and educational initiatives.

5

Intergenerational Responsibility and Future Generations

Encouraging long-term thinking, stewardship, and responsibility toward future generations.

Major Initiatives

Programs Driving Our Mission

Global Platform

Culture Masters Global Platform

A global network connecting cultural leaders, heritage communities, educators, researchers, and practitioners.

Recognition

Arirang Master Program

Recognizing cultural leaders who contribute to cultural diversity, peace, and intercultural understanding.

Heritage

Global Heritage 100

Promoting community-centered heritage practices and cultural resilience.

Media

Arirang Culture Connect (ACC)

An international media platform advancing cultural dialogue and human-centered futures.

Education

CM School Project

Educational initiatives supporting cultural literacy, creativity, and coexistence learning.

New Global Initiatives

Advancing Peace & Human Formation

New strategic directions extending Culture Masters’ work in Artificial Intelligence and the Culture of Peace.

PFI

Peace Formation Initiative (PFI)

A new framework that shifts attention from conflict management to the cultivation of coexistence capacities. PFI promotes trust, participation, empathy, dialogue, democratic citizenship, and peace formation across generations.

GPFI

Global Peace Formation Index (GPFI)

An international framework for measuring coexistence capacities, social trust, democratic participation, cultural engagement, and peace formation.

PFO

Peace Formation Observatory (PFO)

A monitoring platform analyzing conditions of coexistence, democratic resilience, social fragmentation, and digital polarization.

Academy

Global Peace Academy

An educational platform providing training programs, certification systems, and leadership development for peace formation and coexistence.

GHFI

Global Human Formation Initiative (GHFI)

An international cooperation initiative promoting:

  • Human-centered AI
  • Democratic resilience
  • Cultural sustainability
  • Intergenerational responsibility
  • Future-oriented education
  • Peace and coexistence
Our Approach

Culture as the Living Infrastructure of Humanity

Culture Masters believes that peaceful societies are not created by institutions alone. They are cultivated through culture.

Human beings learn coexistence through families, communities, schools, cultural environments, democratic participation, and increasingly through digital spaces.

Culture therefore functions not only as heritage to be preserved but also as the living infrastructure of humanity.

Looking Forward

Toward a New Global Conversation

As humanity enters the age of artificial intelligence, Culture Masters seeks to contribute to a new global conversation:

How can technology strengthen humanity?
How can culture guide innovation?
How can societies cultivate coexistence?
How can future generations inherit more peaceful and human-centered worlds?

Culture Masters believes that the future will depend not only upon technological intelligence, but also upon human wisdom. Our work therefore seeks to connect:

  • Culture and technology
  • Heritage and innovation
  • Democracy and participation
  • Human dignity and artificial intelligence
  • Peace and future generations

Because the future of humanity ultimately depends upon how human beings learn to live together.

Culture Masters

Connecting Culture, Humanity, and Future Generations

Teaching Humanity How to Live Together