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.
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.
Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide is a four-hour television series for PBS and international broadcast, shot in 10 countries, introducing women and girls who are living under some of the most difficult circumstances imaginable- and fighting bravely to change them
When you send photos of your work to be featured on URI’s website, you allow your story to come alive for people all over the world. Photos catch people’s attention far better than words alone.
This is the story told by two Christians (Marites Guingona-Africa and Lee Collano) who, in the process of building relationships of mutual respect, understanding, and cooperation with Muslims in grassroots communities in Metro Manila, the Philippines have borne witness to their plight.
Get involved and deepen your journey with URI through our newest endeavor, Individual Membership. This flyer gives you helpful sign-up links and save-the-date information for upcoming events.
Inspiring Progress identifies the value that religions add to the debate about societal advancement, and it encourages the world’s religious traditions to step up their involvement in shaping the development path of the human family in the twenty-first century.
