URI Stories of Impact

Potre Diampuan, URI’s SEA-Pac Regional Coordinator based in Manila, Philippines, attended several high level United Nations (UN) events this month that took her from Mindanao in the Philippines to Bali, where she was also able to meet with several Bali-based Cooperation Circles (CCs).

I recently represented URI at the African Union Peace and Security Council Special Summit, a meeting to curb terrorism and violent extremism in Africa.

On the 20^th of September, 2014 a ceremony was held at Peace Center Lahore, Pakistan to celebrate the International Day of Peace with roughly100 guests.

At the Interfaith Center, hosted a screening of the film Waking in Oak Creek as part of this year's International Day of Peace (IDP) celebrations.

The worst flood in Pakistan’s history happened after heavy rains in the north and in several other parts of the country.

URI Africa commemorated the 2014 International Day of Peace in two ways this year.

Earlier this week, URI partner the Council for a Parliament for the World’s Religions announced that its signature conference would be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, US in October of 2015. 

For this year's International Day of Peace (IDP), URI’s Cooperation Circles (CCs) in Sri Lanka held several engaging events throughout the region.

PEACE CC, a four-month old Cooperation Circle, is excited about celebrating International Day of Peace for the first time through various events.