In the 1960s, the Ukrainian Peace Council was among the initiators of the Dartmouth conferences, which launched the detente in the Soviet-American relations. Two of suchconferences took place in Ukraine. During the perestroika years, the UPC initiated joint Ukrainian-American expeditions and peace cruises.

The Ukrainian Peace Council was among the first to begin informing the population about the Chornobyl disaster. It demanded open access to information about the disaster, resisted plans to build a nuclear plant in Chyhyryn and a canal between the Danube and the Dnieper. Together with the Ukrainian Culture Fund the UPC successfully prevented the erection of buildings on the island of Khortytsya and in the Kaniv National Preserve. Jointly with the environmental organisation Zelenyi Svit (Green World), the UPC lauched a campaign for environmental safety. Thanks to the UPC's insistent demands the Verkhovna Rada held a special session dealing with this issue and initiated the creation of a relevant ministry.

The UPC has held dozens of press conferences on such issues as child mortality rate, numerous and serious cases of environmental law infringement, problems in the energy sector, the dangerous state of the protective sctructure known as ‘the sarcophagus” over Reactor Unit 4 of the  Chornobyl nuclear power station. A conference which was held in March 1991, laid out an action plan, part of which was the Eurochornobyl-2 seminar organised jointly with the Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the organization Green World. The seminar involved researchers from 32 countries. The Chernobyl-theme lessons that take place in Ukrainian schools every April are also one of the UPC's initiatives.

The UPC started the Children's Educational Exchange program which gained popularity and inspired many other organisations.

In the early 1990s, the UPC organised international peace cruises along the Dnipro River and Ukrainian-American peace expeditions. It also fruitfully collaborated with such organisations as Ukraine – the USA, Bridges for Peace and many others.

Over time. the UPC has established contacts with numerous foreign peace and nongovernmental organisations, cooperating to bring about a moratorium on tests of nuclear and chemical weapons.

Through cooperation with these organizations, the UPC's charity activities enabled around 10 000 Ukrainian children to improve their health in the Netherlands, Greece, Ireland, Malta,Germany, Slovakia, France, and Switzerland. The UPC also provided Ukraine with medical humanitarian aid worth 13 million USD.

The Ukrainian Peace Council marked its 55th anniversary in 2006.

Kyiv, 2006.

Leonid Kravchuk, Chairman of the UPC, and Sun Myung Moon, founder of the Universal Peace Federation.

Chong Jin Pal, Chairman of the UPF in Ukraine, Katsumi Ohtsuka, Chairman of UPF-Eurasia, Leonid Kravchuk, Chairman of the UPC, Volodymyr Novokhatsky, Vice-Chairman of the UPC.

Over the recent years the UPC, in cooperation with numerous international organisations, organised and participated in international peacekeeping activites which aimed to establish sustained peace in the world, to promote the anti-nuclear movement, to develop a global peace and security system, to seek nonviolent solutions to conflicts, to reinforce universal moral and spiritual values, to promote peace, nonviolence and tolerance in young people through education.

Such international activities allow their participants – the UPC in particular – to find similar organizations, put forward their ideas and proposals, represent the Ukrainian community, unite international civil organizations to achieve the aforementioned aims, actively participate in international peacekeeping on behalf of Ukraine.

One of the strategic tasks of the Ukrainian Peace Council is involving major institutions and organisations of Ukraine and other countries into the UPC's activities as collective members. Our experience proves that cooperation with collective members is mutually beneficial. When we develop social, humanitarian or business projects, we start by determining whether they can be carried out together with our collective members.