URI Stories of Impact

URI's Global Council Chair speaks about the importance of women in leadership roles

Our ongoing peace project in Cameroon is named Our Diversity Matters.

Experience the excitement of URI's Accelerate Peace conference with this website recap featuring two full days of peacebuilding panels, keynote speeches, live videos, and more.

One of my favorite bridge-building moments was with a woman selling flowers on a street in St. Petersburg.

Behold, alongside palaces from imperial Russia, fast food joints receive royal treatment.

“The only enemy is the one whose story you have not heard.”

Christina, a single mother of an 8-year-old girl, runs her own “Women’s Entrepreneur Society” in Novosibirsk, the capital of Siberia.

People from all backgrounds stood together in solidarity to demand immediate action to address the climate crisis and devastating consequences impacting our world.

This speech was given by The Rt. Rev. William E. Swing, President and Founding Trustee of URI, and Former Episcopal Bishop of California, at the occasion of the planting of trees at the San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden - saplings from trees that survived the atomic blast in Hiroshima.

Two descendants of trees that survived the nuclear blast on Hiroshima were planted in a ceremony that also honored former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Dame Charlotte Malliard Shultz for their advocacy around nuclear disarmament.