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Welcome Krithika and Matthew

URI welcomes new staff to guide URI’s Young Leaders Program after the departure of program founder Sarah Talcott. Former URI Global Council Trustee Matthew Youde will coordinate the Global Youth...

Equipping the Youth Revolution

When Rowaida Mroue, 2010 URI Youth Ambassador from Lebanon, took an internship at Radio Horytna in Cairo, she had no idea she would soon find herself in the middle of a revolution. But there she was on January 25th, watching as radio staff defied police security to take photos and videos of protesters facing down tanks—images that helped mobilize hundreds of thousands to take to the streets...

A vision of peace in a time of turmoil

Last week URI helped celebrate the first ever United Nations World Interfaith Harmony Week, an initiative by Jordan’s King Abdullah II to promote peace among people of different faith traditions. Coming against the backdrop of a spike in violence against Christians in Iraq and Egypt late last year; the killing of a progressive Pakistani governor in January over the nation’s blasphemy laws; and rising Islamophobia across Europe and the United States, why should we expect such a week—or even the interfaith movement—to make much difference?