URI Stories of Impact

On September 21, 2013, Twekolere Women’s Development Association CC, along with other Great Lakes region CCs, gathered hundreds of students on International Day of Peace at Seguku Hill College.

From June 1-6, 2014, Dr. Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba, URI West Africa Sub-regional Coordinator, participated in a workshop to develop guidelines for young peoples' participation in peacebuilding in New York City.

Members of URI’s Global Council and Global Staff will gather in San Francisco at the end of this month to begin the work of co-creating the second chapter of the United Religions Initiative.

Experience teaches us that it can sometimes turn out very differently than one had hoped for.

In mid-May, nearly 1,500 participants gathered at Seidenweberhaus conference center in Krefeld, Germany, for “Dialogue Day 2014,” an event full of Christian-Muslim dialogue.

Inspired by the call of Pope Francis and his friend, Rabbi Avraham Skorka, to unite in peace, Julio Avruj of Buenos Aires, Argentina helped to organize one of URI’s newest Cooperation Circles.

Today it is World Environment Day, a day that has been observed throughout the world under the patronage of the United Nations Environment Programme.

Vikas Pota, founder of Sewa Day, recently visited URI Great Lakes’ office in Kampala, Uganda to present the Sewa Pioneers Award for a series of coordinated voluntary service events.

URI members participate in a peace ritual in Mindanao, Philippines, where Peace Secretary Teresita Quintos Deles lights candles with her granddaughter in February 2011.Explore our Cooperation Circles.