Youth

URI celebrates the work and leadership of young people. Cooperation Circles work towards equity and fair age representation in all aspects of their work.

Examples of our work in this Action Area:

The URI Youth Connection Cafe is a monthly virtual meeting space for young people across the URI network to connect, learn together, and share their experiences as young interfaith peacebuilders. Each Cafe is hosted by a different youth Cooperation Circle who chooses the topic and facilitates the session. Read more here. Please contact URI if you would like to join these gatherings!
In MENA, Desert Bloom CC regularly hosts youth exchange programs offering young people the experience of meeting across cultures and participating in cultural activities together. Most recently, Desert Bloom participated in the Creating the Way Youth Exchange program in Romania.
In South India, Ecopeace Teen Cafe runs a transformative educational experience for 30 young high school learners. This five-month program covers four modules: community building, environment conservation, social justice, and peace. The learners engage weekly with different guest speakers and participate in activities together, facilitated by a team of youth volunteers. Read more here.

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Stories

URI MENA celebrates International Day of Peace with Palestinian refugee camp

The URI MENA office in Amman, Jordan, in celebrating the International Day of Peace this year, organized “Sport for Peace,” an event for 30 children from Baqa’a Palestinian refugee camp.

Bokaro Peace Circle celebrates Peace Day

This year, Bokaro Peace Circle organized an International Day of Peace celebration on Sunday, September 21st. The event was attended by students, teachers and social workers. The theme was "Why is there war between all religions?"

URI SEA-Pac Regional Coordinator Potre Diampuan attends UN event, visits CCs in Bali

Potre Diampuan, URI’s SEA-Pac Regional Coordinator based in Manila, Philippines, attended several high level United Nations (UN) events this month that took her from Mindanao in the Philippines to Bali, where she was also able to meet with several Bali-based Cooperation Circles (CCs).

URI Cooperation Circles in Sri Lanka organize IDP programs

For this year's International Day of Peace (IDP), URI’s Cooperation Circles (CCs) in Sri Lanka held several engaging events throughout the region.

PEACE CC in West India holds International Day of Peace celebrations

PEACE CC, a four-month old Cooperation Circle, is excited about celebrating International Day of Peace for the first time through various events.

Jayanti - PEACE CC (West Zone, India) brings together diversified group during janamasthami celebrations.

India is a land of diversified culture, traditions and religions, still when it comes to joyous festival celebrations; they appear as an amalgamated homogeneous group symbolizing only one family. All differences melt away smoothly when happiness and joy that accompanies a festival celebration capture the hearts of all the participants.

Observing this wonderful trend of bridging different cultures, some of our PEACE CC members (Mr. Millindar and family and Prema) took initiative to celebrate Janamasthami that brought together different groups and tradition consisting of youth, women, men, senior citizens from Sikh, Hindus and parsis.