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.
Ted Turner, chairman of the UN Foundation Board and founder of CNN, shares with students why he created the UN Foundation, his views on the dangers of climate change and other issues facing the world today, and some of his favorite poetry. He is interviewed by Jason Lee Keenan, a second-year MBA student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. http://www.globalhealing.net/articles/view/146728
The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, in December 2009, has come and gone. How to interpret its impact is the question? Pessimistic voices declare that its goal of a binding agreement among nations failed miserably and that the venue of small and large nations together was far too unwieldy to arrive at a meaningful conclusion. Optimistic voices are cheered that it happened at all. That leading polluting nations arrived at a common intent to change and that Copenhagen represented only one stop on a long road, whose next steps are Mexico (2010) and beyond until a binding agreement is achieved.
Recently, Karen and I were leaving an event and decided to walk through the community that surrounded the event and then down to the main intersecting highway, Memorial Drive. As we were preparing to leave an old familiar Trail (Trail of Dreams World Peace Walk) experience occurred.
On Wednesday May 19th 2010 and in Phoenicia Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon, Three of URI Youth Ambassadors for 2010: Miss Rowaida Mroue, Miss A.O., and Mr. Nawfal El Hammoumi will particpate each...
This report shares details about the youth leadership training that took place from April 13-15, 2010, followed by the URI Southeast Asia and the Pacific Regional Assembly from April 15 - 19. 12 young people from Australia, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines and the U.S. took part in this leadership training, organized by Sharon Vaswani and Shakuntala Vaswani, and facilitated by Youth Programs Director Sarah Talcott Blair. The training offered workshops in interfaith dialogue, interfaith peacebuilding, an environmental symposium and team-building. Youth Ambassadors from both Asia and Southeast Asia also participated. Written by Sarah Talcott.
would like to take a moment to invite you to participate in our 13 Moon Walk 4 Peace campaign to get our nation and the world walking in solidarity for peace through social justice, "spiritual democracy" (www.spiritualdemocracry.com), interfaith dialog, education, and eco-mindfulness.
Our monthly live chat on the Golden Rule took place on March 28th, 2010. Youth participants took part to discuss the Golden Rule from their different perspectives from Pakistan, Morocco, Brazil, Philippines, Somalia, USA, Pakistan, Lebanon, UAE, India and Kenya. The following is the transcript of the chat.
