URI Stories of Impact

The URI Europe Assembly was held in Ohrid, Macedonia on October 2-6, 2019. URI members from across Europe (including 15 countries and 32 Cooperation Circles) gathered to exchange ideas, enjoy productive conversations, and plan future collaboration and activities.

Community leaders from North Macedonia were hosted on Oct 18 at the URI Global Support Office.

Please give a warm welcome to the latest groups to join the global URI network.

Please give a warm welcome to Samira Baručija, who begins her position as the Regional Coordinator for the URI Multiregion on Monday, October 21. 

URI is the largest grassroots interfaith peacebuilding organization in the world, with more than 1,000,000 volunteers in 108 countries.

The city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, held a meeting day with representatives of various teachings providing information to the larger community.

I asked friends of mine who are experts in this field – former Secretary of State George Shultz, Physicist Sidney Drell, former Secretary of Defense, William Perry and eight others – to join with me once a month to try to discover new ways of advancing nuclear abolition.

Len Traubman passed away unexpectedly on October 4, 2019. It is an honor to give him tribute and welcome him to the Celestial Cooperation Circle of URI.

We, at URI North India and Afghanistan, have celebrated peace in diversified ways and with people from different walks of life.

Two second-generation saplings, descendants of ginkgo trees that survived the nuclear blast on Hiroshima, were planted at the San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden.