URI: Elections and Ethics: How Faith Communities Can Promote Peaceful Political Engagement
URI North America organized a one-hour Zoom call on 17 October 2024 to discuss how interfaith communities can actively work to prevent violence in their localities during and after the election and promote peaceful political engagement.
The discussion included best practices on this topic from URI Cooperation Circles, staff, and trustees, and suggestions for how to counteract the spread of hate speech and disinformation.
Watch a video recording of this call here if you missed it and would love to hear the rich and diverse discussion from participants. Supporting materials from this video have been included below.
Please note that URI is nonpolitical and nonpartisan. URI is not a religious organization.
Supporting documents to the video can be found here!
Hate speech is hurtful, promotes intolerance, and often incites violence. The devastating effect of hatred is sadly nothing new. However, its scale and impact are now amplified by new communications technologies. Hate speech – including online – has become one of the most common ways of spreading divisive rhetoric on a global scale, threatening peace within communities around the world.
URI encourages its partners to become actively involved in efforts to interrupt and stop the spread of hate speech in whatever ways make
the most sense for them.
Together we can make a difference!