Community Building

URI encourages people to help each other by reaching across religious, ethnic, and cultural lines, creating a culture of respect and safety that fosters peace even during difficult times.

Examples of our work in this Action Area:

In Pakistan, the URI MCC Islamabad office works for inter-religious peace by addressing local Muslims' and Christians' joint need for necessities like roads, sewage systems, gas and water
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Youth for Peace CC's summer school brought together young people from different backgrounds to serve their community through volunteering efforts like helping disadvantaged families, painting houses, and repairing old cemeteries
After a Helsinki mosque was vandalized, URI members from the URI Multiregion formed an interfaith group to clean it, sending a strong message that they would not allow their community to be divided

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Living into URI's principle of hospitality in India

Principle 6 of the URI Charter states that, as members, “We give and receive hospitality.” But what does this look like and why is it important?

CARAVAN interfaith art exhibit debuts in Washington, DC

The 2014 CARAVAN Exhibition of Visual Art premiered in the US on August 30th at Washington National Cathedral and ran for six weeks.

URI Africa represented at the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilizations

Recently I represented United Religions Initiative at the 12^th annual World Public Forum “Dialogue of Civilizations” under the theme “Preventing World War through Global Solidarity – 100 years on.”

The Weekly Shot: Trust WIN CC Represents at Jerusalem Conference

On October 30, 2013, Elana Rozenman of the Trust WIN CC was invited to the conference in Jerusalem “Safeguarding Holy Sites in the Holy Land.”

Jayanti - Students in large numbers from a leading Engineering college at Navi Mumbai attend 2 days workshop cum seminar by PEACE CC members focused on developing inner peace for excelling in exams and achieving a constructive goal in life.

Peace Seminar on Right of People to Peace organized by Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights on Eve of International Day of Peace 2014

Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights (PCSW&HR) an active Cooperation Circle (CC) of United Religions Initiatives (URI) in Pakistan observed the International Day of Peace on 21st September 2014. Although PCSW&HR organized various activities to observe the peace day but the main activity was peace seminar on “Right of People to Peace” organized by the PCSW&HR on 21^st September 2014 at Sialkot - Pakistan