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.
FLAME University, India recently organized a Case Study conference at its Pune Campus on July 10th and 11th. FLAME University offers International curriculum for various disciplines. As such the conference was first of its kind to be organized at Pune as per the University authorities. Also within India we rarely come across such case study conferences. This conference was organized in collaboration with ET cases, wing of Economic Times, a leading newspaper of Times of India publication. It was indeed an honor for members Jayanti Chavan and Suhas Chavan to present their case study on the Journey of a Peace Ambassador which got selected for presentation after rigorous scrutiny.
As a member of the global URI family, I count it a privilege every time I am able to see the work of a Cooperation Circle come to fruition. This past week, in a movie theater in San Francisco, myself and two other members of the URI Global Staff Deepening the Journey CC were able to see this firsthand.
See two videos from Peace One Day featuring URI African Continental Coordinator Mussie Hailu speaking on the topic of peace, as well as about URI's initiatives.
Cooperation Circles and other organizations in the Los Angeles area will come together for Peace Sunday just before International Day of Peace in September! Read the story to find out more.
