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Action Guidelines for URI Work

Mussie Hailu, URI Regional Coordinator for Africa, adapted these Action Guidelines for URI Work from The Earth Charter. These guidelines provide sound wisdom when considering how you or your Cooperation Circle will take action together. As your group considers a new project or takes time for reflection, these guidelines offer inspiration and practical points to consider and discuss.

Building Partnerships and Making Connections

Two URI leaders, Africa Regional Coordinator Mussie Hailu, and Global Council Trustee Marites Africa, share the triumphs and challenges of making connections with leaders and building partnerships that have lasting impact in their communities.

CC Management Tips

Each Cooperation Circle (CC) has unique dynamics, but collectively, CCs have much in common. Here is a wealth of practical information about the different styles of CC management and suggestions for activities that can help get your CC running smoothly and effectively.

Circle Guidelines

According to The Millionth Circle, a grass-roots, international volunteer organization, these Circle Guidelines help circles to function more successfully for all participants.

Circle Principles

Circle Principles is a list of simple and widely accepted values for circle cooperation and interaction from The Millionth Circle, a grass-roots, international volunteer organization of women who believe that circles are the means through which world consciousness will change.

Creating Cooperation Circles: A Practical Guide

A short, practical guide on how to form a Cooperation Circle, which also contains suggestions for Appreciative Interviews that new Circles might find helpful.

Interfaith Home Gatherings

The URI calls people to use their creativity and resourcefulness to promote interfaith cooperation and respect wherever they are. This guide offers practical information about how to encourage people to join this vision by hosting an interfaith home gathering, but you’ll find these tips are applicable to almost any interfaith encounter.

Interfaith and Peacebuilding Quotations

Compiled by Despina Namwembe, URI Regional Coordinator for the Great Lakes region of Africa, this collection of quotations offers insight and inspiration for the URI community and anyone involved in interfaith work and peacebuilding.

The Millenium Development Goal Toolkits and Toolkit Training Guide

Religions for Peace, with the support of the UN Millennium Campaign, developed the MDG toolkits to assist religious communities in raising awareness, advocating, training, and conducting outreach in the fight against poverty and disease.

Model PowerPoint: URI in the Middle East and North Africa

Used by the URI Middle East and North Africa region to showcase the work of Cooperation Circles, this model PowerPoint is a helpful guide for sharing URI with others.

Partners in Leadership

Over the past ten years, the URI community has enjoyed many effective practices, lessons and experiences that have enlivened us as a community. Drawing from the experiences at URI global summits, regional assemblies, CC initiatives, and like-minded groups, this helpful guide is a collection of some of the best practices that exemplify the URI in action.

Permaculture: A Philosophy for Designing Sustainable Life-Giving Systems

Sarah Talcott, Director of the Young Leaders Program for URI, offers fascinating information to assist CCs, groups large and small, and growing networks think about key life-giving strategies as they design and re-design their work. “Permaculture” offers stunning principles that are drawn from nature’s wisdom to guide organizational growth.

Practical Tips for Teaching and Living the Golden Rule

Mussie Hailu, URI Africa Regional Coordinator, provides practical tips for teaching and living the Golden Rule.

Tips for a Good CC Visit

Sally Mahé, URI Director of Organizational Development, provides practical suggestions on meeting logistics, as well as important tips on making visits with Cooperation Circles meaningful and rewarding.

URI Europe Film Brochure

Films can be used for URI CCs as effective tools for peacemaking and for building interfaith relations. URI Europe published this booklet to support Cooperation Circles by giving them a collection of DVDs recommended for use during interfaith gatherings to inspire discussions with people interested in different religions and cultures.

URI Tool Kit: Actions for Interfaith Solidarity

While hostility exists against diverse faith groups around the world, this tool kit is provided to counter the current rising hostility against Muslims and to offer ideas for positive change. It was inspired by a tool kit developed by CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) in the US. Some ideas were adapted and new guidance suggested for interfaith audiences. The tool kit includes a number of useful media resources, ideas for individuals, and ideas for how faith communities, religious leaders, interfaith councils and interfaith CCs can respond.

Ten Tips for Working with Faith Communities

Kiran Bali, URI Young Leaders Program Steering Committee member and Global Council Trustee, wrote these practical tips for effective work with faith communities, based on her years of experience in interfaith community organizing in northern England, through the Faith 2 Faith UK Cooperation Circle. She presented this during a workshop in the Young Leaders Program interfaith youth leadership retreat in San Francisco, June 2009.

Video Guide

This 4-part video guide was put together for URI Youth Ambassadors by URI Young Leaders Program Steering Committee member, Matthew Youde, from Wales, UK, who is also a filmmaker. He advises on how to produce a number of different videos, from video-diaries to news clips to interviews; how to plan and film different kinds of videos; and special tips for filming interviews.

We Unite Video Viewers' Guide and Dialogue Conversations

This helpful guide provides an introduction to the the URI We Unite video, with follow-up questions and conversation starters.