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.
In communities threatened by religious tension as well as deforestation, Interfaith Peace Building on Natural Resources Management CC members drew attention to the role of environmental protection in promoting peace.
I was delighted to be invited as a distinguished guest to the Peace Day celebrations in Chennai. My keynote speech centred on 'creating the climate for peace'.
Taking into consideration on the important role of arts as a critical mobilizer of transformation and the largest medium of communication to channel a message of peaceful co-existences, harmony, building national cohesion, unity and reconciliation, URI-Africa signed an agreement with Soto Koto Media Entertainment, Ltd.
If our beliefs are built on sound foundation, making common cause with others becomes an easy and gratifying task. One does not have to loose one's identity, but one is asked to embrace the others. By celebrating our differences, at the same time, we richen ourselves and others from the encounter; instead of its being a clash of civilizations and cultures, it becomes an amalgam of cultural experiences which makes us better persons.
This year, Sadanand Biswas, Regional Coordinator for the North Zone of India, celebrated Raksha Bandhan by visiting an orphanage in Jahangir Puri, New Delhi, to distribute sweets to the children.
In Bonn members of the DMLBonn CC, URI Germany CC and the Baha’i community Bonn celebrated UN International Day of Peace with an interfaith film evening on September 15, 2015.
