URI is a global network of interfaith peacebuilders, implementing collaboration and action toward peace, justice, and healing.
URI Connect is a space of opportunities for people to talk, learn, share resources and ideas, and connect to deepen collaboration within CCs, between CCs, and between URI members.
BASELINE FOR THE COMMUNITY AGREEMENTS
These Community Agreements are rooted in the URI Charter under the URI Preamble, Purpose, and Principles section.
URI welcomes you to apply these PPPs when engaging in any activities on the URI Connect App.
URI Connect is a space for interfaith and intercultural conversations, exchange of resources, and invitations to learning and action that serve the collective purpose of URI in accordance with the guidelines of the URI Preamble, Purpose, and Principles. We want everyone to have the opportunity to speak out and participate in conversations, exchanges, and events for the purpose of cooperation.
Please refer to URI Preamble, Purpose, and Principles for complete guidelines of our global network.
WE ASK THAT YOU TO
- Be clear: Use direct and objective language, so everyone understands what you are proposing; trust your feelings to ask a question that inspires people.
- Be positive: Encourage constructive and collaborative responses, which will add to the topic and everyone's learning.
- Be empathetic: Formulate questions considering the participants’ perspective, don’t just think about yourself
- Be mindful and curious: Bring curiosity to our diverse contexts and experiences, being mindful of assumptions and experiences
- Be focused: Share questions and responses that attend to the specific conversation as relates to your interfaith cooperation efforts.
- Speak for yourself: Share from your own direct experience, speaking in your own name and voice.
- Pause: Refrain from saying or relaying hateful remarks. Act and speak responsibly.
- Respect privacy: Refrain from sharing details about your private life or of others in the public conversation or community.
- Fact check: Check the content’s origins through the Internet and other fact- checking tools before posting or sharing.
- Report: Report hateful messages to administrators, moderators or community facilitators.
- Detect and interrupt: Provide solidarity to people who become targets of hate speech and push back against such language.
- Practice: At all times, remember that you are living out the URI Preamble, Purpose and Principles.
THE FOLLOWING BEHAVIOR AND/OR ACTIONS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED ON THE URI CONNECT APP
- Harassment of any kind, including and not limited to bullying, insults, derogatory language, sexual harassment
- hate speech against any race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or physical/mental disabilities
- political campaigning
- misinformation, fake news, plagiarism, spam, scams, or other deceptive practices that harm users and the App
- any content that exposes misinformation about health and that contradicts the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO)
- sexual content, nudity, or focus on specific parts of the body for the purpose of sexual gratification and exploration, or escort service
- invitation to violence, weapons, drugs, terrorism, crime, threats, aggression, deaths, suicide and mutilation
- PERSONAL requests for money, donations, crowdfunding, pyramid schemes, and betting
- advertising links for products, services, apps, and websites outside the context of URI
- Sharing, creating, or distributing Child Safety and Exploitation (CSAE)-related content. (for more information, see URI Connect - B2C Terms of Service)
- Engaging in grooming or any form of predatory behavior.
- Using the app’s features (chats, file sharing, live streaming, etc.) for any form of child exploitation.
IMPORTANT: We may remove all Content without notice if it violates our Guidelines or the URI PPPs. We may also permanently or temporarily block accounts on the URI App for violating these Usage Guidelines.
Conversations or contributions to URI Connect that we do not accept or do not follow our guidelines or what we expect of each other as members of URI will be removed from our feeds without prior notice. We may also permanently or temporarily block accounts on the URI Connect App for violating these Usage Guidelines.
If you encounter any activities outlined in the “Will Not Be Accepted” section, please report it immediately using the in-app reporting feature or contact us at [email protected]]. We will take immediate action as needed.
Thank you for being part of the URI Connect APP and respecting our Community Agreements.