Stories of Hope

Stories of Hope highlights community workshops that addressed urgent local concerns and develop URI Interfaith Peacebuilding Skills. These workshops were conducted by six URI grassroots leaders  who studied together at the 2002 Summer Peacebuilding Institute (SPI) of Eastern Mennonite University. They each applied SPI learning in action when they returned home to Uganda, the Philippines, Zimbabwe, and Malawi. Through these workshops emerge voices from diverse religions finding ways to deepen their relationships, trust and understanding as they address local concerns together.