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.
The San Francisco Interfaith Council, SFIC, a URI Cooperation Circle, deepens their journey toward healing in response to the intense conflict in Gaza and Israel.
As we joined local CCs from the Kerala region coming together to share their work and discuss in groups goals and challenges to be addressed in their next steps, as well as how our global team can serve and support these efforts, we listened with attention to Dr. Sreemathi Seshadrinathan, as she presented to us the achievements of their running program SOCAN (Solution for Cardiac Afflicted Needy).
The Justice Desk Cooperation Circle in South Africa through the iNtsika yeThemba project organized a session with youth and guided them to increase their self-awareness by recognizing their emotions, thoughts, and how certain behaviors impacted their feelings.
The URI Southern Africa Assembly, held in Johannesburg from November 7th to 10th, 2023, brought together diverse Cooperation Circles spanning Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique.
On the 25th and 30th of October 2023, young members of the URI Network gathered for the monthly URI Youth Connection Cafe to share their perspectives and experiences on the topic of interrupting harm and hate speech in an online context.
