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.
Since 1991 Bauchi continues experiencing ethno-religious crises with hundreds of people massacred and many churches, mosques, and family homes burned down. All major ethno-religious crises in Bauchi State emanate from the two local government areas, Bogoro and Tafawa Balewa, in the extreme south of Bauchi. Both Local Government Areas (LGAs) share boundaries with Jos, Plateau State, which is yet another flash point of unrest and brutality in Nigeria.
The Seeds for Peace Seminar was meant to (1) bring citizens of different religions, tribes, and cultures in tensed areas, to sit at the same table for learning to listen to one another, share their stories, and discover that “an enemy is one whose story we have not heard.” And the women and men were to (2) serve as the beginning of the new movement in GROW BIO-INTENSIVE Agriculture which will ultimately help people to have organic (healthful) food on
United Religions Initiative’s Pakistan coordinators and staff joined together recently for a national conference in Lahore to discuss the year’s events and share resources.
The story of the ANT-Hiroshima CC (ANT standing for “Asian Network of Trust), a global relief and peacebuilding NGO based in Hiroshima, Japan, is also a story of how one’s personal passions can spread to the thousands, if not millions, of others..
The Peace Community of San José de Apartadó is part of our Multiregion Cooperation Circle. From the 7th till the 9th of October, 2013 the community has initiated a pilgrimage. It is the beginning of the Global Campus month, an initiative of our Multiregion.
On the 2nd October 2013 Ektaan observed non violence day through organizing cloth distribution at Ambagan, Burnpur sponsored by DPSC ladies club - a long time supporter of URI work in the Eastern Region of URI India.
