The URI Resource Library is a collection of downloadable materials and links to a variety of resources that support interfaith peacebuilding work.
Featured Resources
Appreciative Inquiry and URI
Appreciative Inquiry is a philosophy for change that was created by Professor David Cooperrider and his associates at Case Western Reserve University. Here is a summary of Appreciative Inquiry, and how to use this powerful dialogue tool within the context of the URI community.
URI for Kids
A beautifully designed curriculum for children (and learners of all ages) that introduces URI's Preamble, Purpose and Principles, and provides excellent information and activities about different world religions and spiritual traditions.
Interfaith Peacebuilding Guide
The URI Interfaith Peacebuilding Guide is a resource for interfaith groups — those “everyday gandhis” who are making a difference one meeting at a time in their local communities.
Victims and perpetrators of Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war come together for the first time in an unprecedented program of tradition-based truth-telling and forgiveness ceremonies.
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In this piece Herm Weaver articulates the qualities and values of the leadership that he and Lederach modeled during the training, and the experience of the training workshops themselves.
In this fascinating book, eleven leading experts explore the philosophical and ethical issues underlying social responses to climate change and in particular how these responses draw upon ideas about the future. Ideal for students of environmental ethics in multiple disciplines.
The Gaia theory revolutionized the understanding of our place and role in the global environment. The basis for change explored here offers a basis for nonviolent theological and practical approaches to our situatedness within the community of life.
The Global Fund for Women is a publicly supported, nonprofit grantmaking foundation that advances women's human rights by funding women-led organizations in nearly 200 countries.
This curriculum, published by Scarboro Mission, uses the logic of circles, rules, moral modeling and the Golden Rule to inspire and support young people to become global citizens rooted in the Golden Rule.
The Interfaith Peace-building Initiative, a URI Cooperation Circle in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, proclaimed April 5, 2007 as a Golden Rule Day. Mussie Hailu, Regional Coordinator of URI Africa, encourages the rest of the URI community and world to use these words to proclaim a Golden Rule Day in local communities, schools, places of work, families, etc.
Selected from many of the world’s great religious texts and spiritual teachings, the Green Rules were chosen to demonstrate that each religion and spiritual philosophy has a long-standing tradition of ecological stewardship. Each Green Rule was chosen to acknowledge the natural world as an essential phenomenon through which we may better come to know the divine and our oneness with it.
