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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.
Despina Namwembe, the URI Africa Regional Coordinator for Great Lakes travelled to Kenya and met with Nyambura Mundia, the Administrator of URI Africa, Kate Kiama, YLP youth ambassador and other women from different disciplines at the end of June, 2013.
India is a land of diversified culture, traditions and religions, still when it comes to joyous festival celebrations; they appear as an amalgamated homogeneous group symbolizing only one family. All differences melt away smoothly when happiness and joy that accompanies a festival celebration capture the hearts of all the participants.
Observing this wonderful trend of bridging different cultures, some of our PEACE CC members (Mr. Millindar and family and Prema) took initiative to celebrate Janamasthami that brought together different groups and tradition consisting of youth, women, men, senior citizens from Sikh, Hindus and parsis.
Youth Society for Peace in Nepal held several youth programs in a three-day celebration of International Day of Peace (IDP) at Peace Service Centre’s Ashram in Kathmandu.
Two URI Youth Representatives to the United Nations (UN) joined Malala Yousafzai, the 17 year-old Pakistani women’s and education rights activist, at UN headquarters in New York August 18th.
URI's South India Region held several youth programs, as well as a special guest lecture, for International Day of Peace (IDP) this year in Kottarakkara, India.
