Charles P. Gibbs

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For 17 years, Charles has served as URI's founding Executive Director. He has worked with religious, spiritual and other leaders in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. He has been a featured speaker internationally and has written extensively about interfaith cooperation. He co-authored with colleague Sally Mahé, Birth of a Global Community, a book on the birth of the United Religions Initiative. In addition, he has published many articles on interfaith work, contributed a chapter to Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding, published by the United States Institute of Peace, and co-authored, with colleague Barbara Hartford, a chapter in Positive Approaches to Peacebuilding. His essay, Opening the Dream: Beyond the Limits of Otherness, appears in the anthology, Deepening the American Dream. As an Episcopal priest, Charles brings to his work a strong commitment to spiritual transformation and to work for peace, justice and healing, as well as an abiding belief in the sacredness of all life on this planet.

URI Stories of Impact

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At Assembly, Swami Offers Practical Steps for Building Peace

Drawing on the theme – Promoting Cultures of Peace – Swami Chaturvedi gave a virtuoso talk about believing in and training for peace at the third URI All-India Assembly.

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Assembly Showcases Work and Leadership of URI India

The third URI All India Assembly in Shantiniketan offers an opportunity to recall the role leaders from India have played -- and continue to play -- in helping to create and grow URI.

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Third URI All-India Assembly Offers Space for Reflection

URI Executive Director Rev. Charles Gibbs reflects on the journey he -- and URI -- have taken together while attending the third URI All India Assembly in Shantiniketan

A Thanksgiving Wish For Peace

The Rev. Charles P. Gibbs, URI's Executive Director, offered this reflection on the latest Middle East crisis and the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.

URI External Affairs Committee Issues Statement on Israeli-Palestinian Violence

As leaders of the United Religions Initiative, we raise our voices in solidarity with the innocent civilians, Palestinians and Israelis, suffering from the latest outbreak of deadly violence.

Words From the Edge of Despair

A reflection and a rally to action in the face of anger and despair

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Rev. Charles P. Gibbs Announces Plans to Retire as Director of URI

After leading the world’s largest grassroots interfaith organization for nearly two decades, the Rev. Canon Charles P. Gibbs has announced his decision to retire in June of 2013.

URI Announces Theory of Change

In the spirit of organizational learning and adaptation and to help guide and assess the success of URI’s growth in the future, we have developed URI’s Theory of Change (TOC).

URI Director Charles Gibbs Issues Statement on Egypt, Libya Attacks

I join the ranks of those heartsick at the news of the tragic deaths of U.S. Ambassador to Libya J. Christopher Stevens and three colleagues.

The Legacy of September 11

I am haunted by the still-vivid memory of picking up the phone on 9/11. A dear friend in Washington, DC sobbed, Turn on your television, they’ve flown a plane into the World Trade Center.