Our community is working tirelessly to bring peace and justice in all areas of the world regardless of religion. Read stories straight from the organizers.
The co-founders of the Interfaith Mediation Centre, a URI Cooperation Circle from Kaduna Nigeria, West Africa, receive the first Commonwealth Peace Prize.
Meet URI's new Executive Director, Karen Volker - As I step into my new role as URI’s first woman Executive Director, I want to acknowledge and highlight that I have joined a movement filled with remarkable individuals and organizations that harness collective strength to create meaningful impact—from local communities to the global stage.
Sarvodaya Shanti Sena, a URI member group in Sri Lanka, is tackling economic challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic by distributing much-needed food for low-income families.
Today, Saturday March 14, 2020, we should have been celebrating “URI-20-Years” as part of the URI Netherlands Vestijn – Vrijheid, Vrede, Vriendschap (Freedom, Peace, Friendship) Festival.
Being a group of women with tight relations, they want to share their special talents with each other with the target of creating peace. They want to be a safe and productive place to discuss local and global issues.
At a time when the human community is being challenged to find unity, as extremists fan the flames of division, and when humanity as a whole has become dangerously alienated from the Earth that sustains us, the COVID19 pandemic and the “social distancing” required has further challenged our sense of unity.
This time around with the new pandemic, as an 83-year-old, I putter around wiping doorknobs and watching, hypnotized, the numbers of cases and deaths climb relentlessly.
Ciro Gabriel Avruj, a member of the Misiones Unidas CC (United Missions Cooperation Circle, a URI member group), delivered a Unit Awareness talk in Buenos Aires, Argentina on March 6, 2020.
