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Blogging Guidelines

Ever wonder how to write a good blog? What is a blog anyway? Here are some helpful guidelines adapted from a blogging workshop given by Hot Studio, Inc., the company that has been helping URI to redesign its website.

Learning to Live Together

Learning to Live Together is the first outcome of the worldwide ethics education initiative launched by the Arigatou Foundation and its Global Network of Religions for Children (GNRC), developed in close cooperation with and endorsed by UNESCO and UNICEF. Providing youth leaders and educators worldwide with the tools for an intercultural and interfaith programme, this adaptable resource can be used with children from many different cultural, religious and social contexts to nurture common values and a mutual respect for different backgrounds and traditions. It aims to strengthen children’s commitment to justice, respect for human rights, and to build harmonious relationships between individuals and within societies.

Living Our Values

Living Values Education, an international program implemented by Bond zonder Naam Cooperation Circle in Antwerp, Belguim, is a holistic system looking at education with the goal of providing principles and tools to guide the development of the whole person, recognizing that each individual is comprised of physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual dimensions. Developed in 1997, the aim is to create a culture of positive values in each society throughout the world, believing that education is a purposeful activity designed to help humanity flourish.

Sound of the Soul

House Party Guide
A guide, developed by the Global Spirit series on Link TV, for how to share movies they produce, such as Sound of the Soul, with others and use them to spark interfaith dialogue and cross-cultural exchange. A great way to integrate music and the arts into interfaith gatherings!

Film
150 Minutes (CEM Productions). Directed by Peter Scarlet. From CEM Productions: Sound of the Soul is a compelling portrait of an Arab country where Muslims, Christians, and Jews have lived together in relative peace for centuries. Beautifully photographed during the Fez Festival of World Sacred Music, the film presents unforgettable performances from groups from Morocco, Ireland, Russia, Afghanistan, Mauritania, the USA, Portugal and France, which carry viewers into what the film’s Moroccan sufi guide calls ‘the hearing of the heart’ - the essential Oneness at the core of all religions and faiths.

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.

Value Based Education Exposition

This insightful overview on values-based education, written by world-renowned educator Dr. C.M. Yogi from Nepal, shares an introduction to value based education , the history of value based education in Nepal, international practices in value based education, and an extensive list of books and resources on value based education.

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.