URI Global Youth CC

The Global Youth Cooperation Circle connects and empowers youth initiatives across URI.

Its goals are to: Develop a global youth network for URI; Amplify youth participation at all levels of URI (local, regional and global); Develop young people's skills, capacities and confidence so that rooted in our traditions, we can respect each other and better serve the world in which we live; Support communication flowing between young people and exchange of stories, ideas and values as a model for how "to build cultures of peace, justice and healing for the Earth and all living beings."

Our CC now includes more than 500 youth interfaith activists from 68 countries. In 2009, we held 11 live chats online an average of 10-15 attendees, on the subjects such as Social Justice, Faith and the Environment, Health and Healing, Refugees, Education and Community Partnership, Indigenous Peoples, etc. In November 2008 - December 2009, in Mayapur, India, we held a face-to- face leadership gathering of 100 young leaders from our global youth network from 34 countries. During this leadership intensive, "Taking the Initiative: The Role of Youth in Global Interfaith Action," a number of our young leaders offered workshops in interfaith education, leadership development, faith and the environment, peacebuilding and conflict resolution. We also did an interfaith service project at a local village school in India, where we provided school supplies, planted trees and painted a peace mural.

To learn more, visit http://www.uri.org/action_areas/youth