Join us for our next Violence Prevention Community Call, where we will dive into two critically important themes: identifying ways to prevent election-related violence, a timely topic as many countries around the world are holding elections this year, and exploring strategies to reach communities with low-literacy rates in violence prevention outreach efforts.
This engaging session will feature insights from CC members and regional coordinators from Cameroon, the Great Lakes region, and Sri Lanka.
We invite you to join us and share your own insights and experiences.
In recognition of Indigenous Peoples Day, celebrated in the United States, we invite you to a powerful webinar on October 17, 2024, organized by URI, the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation, and the G-20 Forum Anti-Racism Initiative, where we will explore the profound legacies of colonization on Indigenous communities across the Americas.
The event will address themes such as the erasure of languages and culture, land destruction, and resilience through the revitalization of Indigenous ancestral traditions.
Fany Gonzales, representative of Mujeres Kunas Artesanas CC in Panama, and Francisco Morales, URI Global Council Trustee for Latin America and the Caribbean, will share their insights on the impact of colonization and the incredible work being done to revive Indigenous cultures in their respective regions.
Don't miss this opportunity to hear from Indigenous leaders as they discuss their stories of strength and the importance of cultural restoration.
Join us for an insightful conversation with the Rt. Rev. William E. Swing, founder of URI, as he shares reflections from his latest book, God and Nuclear Weapons: Meditations at the End of the Atomic Age.
This event, hosted by Love Your Neighbour CC, will explore the profound moral and spiritual implications of nuclear weapons in today's world.
Don't miss this unique opportunity to engage in a meaningful conversation about faith, peace, and global security.
We are happy to share with you two upcoming learning opportunities open to all members of the URI network. Please share the below information with members of your organization / Cooperation Circle.
After enjoying our Introductory Workshops, we are inviting members of the URI network to apply to become part of the first cohorts of our Learning in Action Series: a sequence of four in depth 3hr workshops to explore and co-create key practices to nurture our movement together towards our collective purpose of promoting interreligious collaboration, ending violence, and creating cultures of peace, justice, and healing.
In this second half of the year, we will be offering two different series:
Each cohort will meet once a month in a 3hr workshop to deepen collective experiential knowledge and practice the skills desired to advance collaborative change across regions and over the long-term. In between monthly sessions, there will be practical tasks to engage with in a local context, while sharing learnings and reflections back with the group. By the end of the series, URI members will be prepared to develop seed funding opportunities and support each other’s practices and resourcing across regions and over time.
To successfully complete the series, you will be expected to:
Attend 75% of the sessions
Have an active participation throughout the series
Complete all required assignments
Apply your learnings to a current or desired project
If you are interested in joining either of the series
Join us for the Intergenerational Gathering - Advocating for our Future and the Rights of Nature
Around the world, young activists are filing lawsuits against their governments to clarify that the next generation has the right to a healthy future. This session will focus on making changes at the local and policy levels.
Gather to practice intergenerational collaboration in URI and honor the experiences of young people in advocating for a better future.
The Elijah Interfaith Institute is delighted to invite you to "Human Life, Purpose and Dignity"
online from July 29th - August 7th!
The annual Elijah series is in its 27th year of bringing religious leaders, interfaith activists
and students of world religions together for the signature Summer School and Interreligious
Leadership seminar.
An esteemed faculty of religious leaders from six world faiths and academic institutions will
deliver theological and spiritually-engaging workshops, panels, and more for an intimate,
international and interfaith experience.
Learn and be inspired by:
Prof. Arvind Sharma (Hindu, Canada)
His Beatitude Patriarch Sahak II Mashalian (Christian, Turkey)
Prof. John Makransky (Buddhist, USA)
Rav Daniel Kohn (Jewish, Israel)
Maureen Goodman (Hindu, UK)
Prof. Steven Sandage (Christian, USA)
Prof. Judith Simmer Brown (Buddhist, USA)
Shrivatsa Goswami (Hindu, India)
Archbishop Prof. Antje Jackelen (Christian, Sweden)
Grand Mufti Mustafa Ceric (Muslim, Bosnia)
Rebbetzin Gilla Rosen (Jewish, Israel)
Karma Lekshe Tsomo (Buddhist, USA)
Prof. Vasudha Narayanan (Hindu, USA)
Prof. Reuven Kimelman (Jewish, USA)
Imam Muhammed Suheyl Umar (Muslim, Pakistan)
Prof. Nader Saeidi (Bahai, USA)
Swami Atmapriyananda (Hindu, India)
Prof. Perry Schmidt-Leukel (Christian/Buddhist, Germany)
Prof. Tova Hartman (Jewish, Israel)
Prof. Jeffery Long (Hindu, USA)
Professor Ayelet Hoffmann (Jewish, Israel)
Between them the following topics will be deeply explored:
Cosmo-visions; how the human person is placed in relation to other parts of creation
What Distinguishes Humanity; soul and spirit
Human Identity
Bibliodrama
Human Rights and Human Obligations
Contemporary Challenges to understanding the Human Person
Human Flourishing; a life worth living
When peace, community building, spiritual practices and theological learning come together,
a new experience of faith becomes possible.
URI Principle 9 focuses on practicing healing and reconciliation to resolve conflict without resorting to violence.”
This is why we want to lean into caring for our environment, because when we care for the environment and restore ecosystems we’re also restoring our communities and preventing or reducing violence.
This introductory workshop aims to connect with our capacity to care for the earth and each other and create a simple toolkit for imagining new possibilities for ecological regeneration and collective healing while drawing both on the indigenous and sacred wisdom of our diverse communities and the wisdom of the natural and human sciences.
This call will discuss a new global campaign to end violence.
We look forward to sharing the details of this new campaign with you and getting your input on how best to share this campaign within the network and beyond.
The health approach to violence prevention explores violence as a behavior that can be interrupted and changed.
This workshop will introduce the basic elements of this approach with examples and sharing of experiences across different contexts and invite participants to practice skills of interrupting harmful behaviors in the context of hate speech.
The sacred values and traditional wisdom of indigenous peoples worldwide may be the key to the renewal of our planet and a sustainable future for all.
URI invites you to join indigenous communities from around the world to share and learn the sacred values and traditional wisdom of Indigenous Peoples worldwide which are key to the renewal of our planet and a sustainable future for all.
Among the panelists are; Francisco Morales, Global Council Trustee, Latin America and the Caribbean, Lauren Van Ham URI Climate Action Coordinator, and Rosalia Gutierrez, leader of the Indigenous People of Argentina Cooperation Circle in Buenos Aires.
Sign up now for the next Violence Prevention Community Call from 6-9 am PDT on Thursday, May 16, 2024.
During this call, we will briefly go over the basics of what it means to use a health approach to anticipate and prevent violence in your community and examine together how this approach can be applied to specific situations or contexts.
You are invited to submit in advance a short description of a scenario that you are facing that you would like to have discussed during this session.
Join us for the next URI Co-learning community workshop; facilitating interfaith spaces.
Building on the Intro to Interfaith Engagement, this workshop will introduce a starter toolkit of key facilitation and design skills to support interfaith organizing and collective efforts to advance specific changes in our communities.
Be part of this virtual opportunity to learn and explore key facilitation and design skills to support interfaith organizing.
30 May 2024 - 6:00 am - 9:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm GMT
Preventing violence may seem overwhelming or even impossible.
This introductory workshop will help you connect with your own capacity to intervene to prevent violence, to realize the power of the “third side” to generate new possibilities beyond violence, and to identify a diversity of partners who can help reduce violence and sustain transformative interventions amidst cycles of violence.
Multiregion Global Youth CC invites you to join the upcoming Youth Mental Health Talk.
Join and engage in vital topics, insights, and conversations on navigating the journey to mental well-being.
Let's break down barriers, foster understanding, and empower each other to thrive! Don't miss out—reserve your spot now for an evening of enlightenment and connection.
All sessions take place between 6am - 9am PT / 1pm - 4pm GMT
URI invites you to join a series of introductory 3-hour workshops that explore key practices to nurture our movement together toward our collective purpose of promoting interreligious collaboration, ending violence, and creating cultures of peace, justice, and healing.
16 April 6:00 am - 9:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm -4:00 pm GMT
This workshop aims to provide members of the network with an introduction to interfaith engagement, what it is, how to do it, and how to strengthen interfaith collaboration within their organization to deepen and support their work and participation in the URI network.
29 April 2024 6:00 am - 9:00 am PDT / 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm GMT
This workshop is an introduction to key personal and interpersonal practices to deepen participants’ mindfulness of their personal and cultural habits around conflicts and to be prepared with a toolkit to move through difficult conversations with creativity.
18 April 2024 - 6:00 am - 7:30 am PDT / 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm GMT
Save the date! April 18, 2024, we will be hosting a community call to hear from URI members and partners (you!) about the successful ways that you have been building peace in your region.
We are particularly interested in hearing about any successful efforts undertaken to interrupt and stop violence before it happens. We look forward to learning together on the 18th.
URI Europe and URI Multiregion are delighted to present a collection of articles from Cooperation Circles, detailing their remarkable efforts in fostering community resilience.
The essence of "Community Resilience" lies in the sharing of uplifting practices and experiences by grassroots organizations, illustrating their journey towards building stronger and more resilient communities.
United Religions Initiative (URI) and Cure Violence Global invite you to be part of the Curing Violence: A Workshop to End Violence event
This parallel event hosted by the United Religions Initiatives, aims to equip participants with the tools and strategies derived from Cure Violence Global's health approach to prevent and interrupt violence against women and girls.
Acknowledging the pervasive nature of this issue, particularly in contexts of poverty, conflict, and marginalization, the training seeks to empower attendees with actionable methods to address and mitigate gender-based violence.
Join us to learn and share lessons from grassroots, interfaith women leaders.
This event, hosted by the United Religions Initiative, in collaboration with grassroots NGO partners, think tanks on women’s security, and religious and spiritual leaders, will center around identifying ways to prevent violence against women and girls, addressing structural inequalities, and leveraging financing and technology as tools to empower and alleviate gender-based violence against women in poverty and vulnerable contexts.
This event will elevate the voices of URI CCs working on the ground to advance the rights of women globally.
You are invited to be part of the URI Community Call Series, The Power of Dialogue in Fostering Interfaith Harmony.
This interactive discussion will explore the transformative potential of dialogue in promoting understanding, respect, and cooperation among people of diverse religious and spiritual backgrounds.
During this community call, we will delve into the principles and practices of effective interfaith dialogue, share insights and experiences from diverse perspectives, and discuss strategies for overcoming challenges and building bridges of understanding and cooperation in our communities.
Throughout the year there will be four community calls exploring different topics.
URI Europe invites you to be part of the peace prize webinar following a special initiative launched by URI Europe in September 2023 honoring UN Peace Day and Global Week to Act for SDGs.
Join the next episode of the ALIVE series featuring Jerry White – URI Executive Director and Karen Tse- Founder of International Bridges to Justice who will share their personal contributions to the evolution of international treaties, healing, transforming systems, networks and so much more.
Featured Guests
Jerry White is a spiritual activist, entrepreneur, and Ashoka Fellow who leads the world’s largest grassroots interfaith network promoting peace, justice, and healing (United Religions Initiative). He is known for leading high-impact campaigns, three of which led to international treaties. When he was twenty, Jerry lost his right leg to a landmine explosion in Israel. He shares in the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.
Karen Tse is an international human rights lawyer, ordained minister and Ashoka Fellow who envisions a world where the basic legal rights of every person are respected. She has made groundbreaking contributions to judicial reform around the world and creates the conditions to ensure the end of torture as an investigative tool, ensuring the protection of a variety of human rights. We recommend you watch her TED Talk "How to Stop Torture"--> https://www.ted.com/talks/karen_tse_how_to_stop_torture
You are cordially invited to participate in the webinar "Cultural diversity – a key factor for socially sustainable economies" on the occasion of UN World Interfaith Harmony Week.
This webinar is a result of collaboration between Baraza CC and URI Europe.
The webinar will be held on ZOOM on Wednesday, 14th February
We are delighted that excellent speakers have agreed to give us their perspectives on this important topic.
Professor Dr. Anke Weber is the President of Baraza – an international, intercultural NGO based in Germany. She is a Professor for Intercultural Research Methods and Statistics at Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences. She has extensive work and research experience in Germany, the EU, Africa, and the US. Her PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland focused on the impact of ethnic diversity on education in Africa. She spent over five months conducting field research in Kenya and Tanzania and worked as a guest lecturer in Butare, Rwanda.
Before joining the Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy, she worked in the US and in Switzerland as a consultant in the Human Development Department of the World Bank. From 2014-2016, she was responsible for developing health indicators at Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Commission in Luxembourg. Her current research focuses on multicultural teamwork, intercultural onboarding, and social sustainability.
Elisabeth L'heure has been serving on the URI Europe Executive Committee and as a Trustee of United Religions Initiative's Global Council, elected as a member of AUDIR Cooperation Circle.
Thanks to AUDIR, Elisabeth has been working in the field of mediation for interreligious issues in different cities and suburbs of Catalonia (Spain), she is participating in and conducting interfaith gatherings in diverse surroundings, including in prisons.
Join us on December 11th at 7 am PT (10 am EDT, 4 pm CET, 8:30 pm IST) for a special premiere of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) reading, marking the 75th anniversary of this historic document.
Hosted by the Women's Interfaith Network of URI (WIN URI CC) and URI Multiregion, in collaboration with Cooperation Circles of URI, this event brings together women from six continents to read the UDHR in at least 5 different languages, highlighting the diversity of our global community.
To be part of this significant celebration, please register at the registration link. Don't miss the opportunity to contribute to this momentous occasion and join hands in promoting the principles of human rights worldwide.
Join a series of introductory 2-hour workshops that explore key practices to nurture our movement together towards our collective purpose of promoting interreligious collaboration, ending violence, and creating cultures of peace, justice, and healing.
These will take place on
1 November 2023 - Intro to Generative Conflict
15 November 2023 - Into to Violence Prevention
29 November 2023 - Intro to Collective Healing
13 December 2023 - Intro to Facilitating Social Change
Discover real stories of community resilience projects. During this session, we will hear from Cooperation Circles that work on projects that help their communities build resilience and deal with challenges they are facing.
Being a part of the URI network offers us opportunities to learn about the experiences of others and this is one of them. If you are looking for inspiration and ideas for working on community resilience, this is the place for you!
This will be our last Youth Connection Café of the year and will be a chance to bring your ideas, projects, and visions for the change we want to make as young people in URI for 2024 and beyond.
We are thrilled to invite you to the first in a series of online webinars on violence prevention, hosted by Karen Volker, URI’s Director of Partnership and Violence Prevention, on 11 October.
This inaugural webinar will present the key components of the health approach to preventing and interrupting violence and answer questions participants may have about the potential applicability of the health approach to whatever situation they may be facing in their communities.
Join us for an enlightening workshop in our Resilience Series: "Individual Resilience" with the renowned facilitator, Xoli Fuyani. In this session, we delve into the core of personal resilience, exploring how it intersects with community resilience within the URI network. Discover strategies, insights, and practical tools to bolster your ability to thrive in the face of adversity, empowering you in your interfaith peacebuilding journey.
Are you a young person below 35 years old? Are you passionate about connecting and learning how to interrupt harm and hate speech? If yes, then this event is for you!
URI invites you to join the next Youth Connection Cafe that will focus on how to interrupt harm and hate speech in times of crisis.
Join this month’s URI Youth Connection Café, for an open conversation around change-making, the 'shadow sides' of interfaith work, and how we work towards deeper and more meaningful interfaith experiences! Happening on Friday -
Ecopeace Teen Cafe Cooperation Circle invites you to the first open cafe chat on interreligious Education.
Ecopeace Teen Cafe plans to host monthly Ecopeace Open Cafe Chats for open dialogue and meaningful conversations where we explore important topics related to sustainability, environmental conservation, and peace-building. Ecopeace Open Cafe is open to all and there will be no age restrictions.
The special guest is Dr. Karen Leslie Hernandez, with over 18 years of experience, both in the US and internationally, in peacebuilding, as well as in multi-faith understanding and collaboration, Karen brings practical, academic, and experiential expertise to her peacebuilding work. Her areas of concentration are restorative/transformative justice, theological coexistence, theological responses to religious extremism, human rights in sacred texts, trauma-informed responses to conflict/violence, and local and international peacebuilding.
House of Hilkiah Foundation invites you to join the Her Voice and Her Peace Campaign in 3 states of Nigeria.
The campaign aim is to increase awareness and amplify the voices of internally displaced women and girls (especially persons with disabilities and HIV) who are living in camps, crisis communities and general public on their rights to preventing sexual exploitation, information on the multisectoral laws and referral pathways, empowering them towards economic development that will not only facilitate, improving their socio-economic condition but will also help the betterment of the entire family towards achieving the UN SDGS on the principle of LEAVING NO ONE BEHIND.
In celebration of the International Day of Peace, URI will organize a community call under the title “How to Have Difficult Conversations“
During this call, participants will have the opportunity to:
- Engage with members from the vibrant URI Community and share their experiences.
- Deepen their understanding of personal, communal, and cultural dynamics surrounding difficult conversations. Embrace the diversity within URI and our varied contexts.
- Learn and exchange key practices for effectively preparing for and participating in challenging discussions.
Together, we can transform how we engage in dialogues, promoting peace, justice, and healing.
URI together with Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons invites you to join others around the world on August 6th to say a prayer about nuclear weapons.
Since last year, over 100,000 people all over the world united in prayer for a world free of nuclear weapons.
We invite you to join a movement of dedicated people worldwide whose mission is to assist in the efforts to abolish nuclear weapons in prayer and action.
Every month URI members and Cooperation Circles meet to talk about the care and restoration of Mother Earth.
This month, we invite you to gather with us as we explore and share ideas on "Economy and Ecology - how do we create livelihoods that sustain our planet."
This call will feature the perspectives of young people through interactive intergenerational dialogue and celebrate International Youth Day.
URI is proud to be one of the co-sponsors of this Expert Briefing, which is co-organized by the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT), the United Nations Alliance of Civilization (UNAOC), and the United Religious Initiative (URI) in the framework of the United Nations Global Programme on Countering Terrorist Threats against Vulnerable Targets. * As we all know, attacks against religious and other vulnerable sites is often a hallmark of religiously motivated violence. All staff, CCs, and Trustees are invited to attend to listen, learn, and share your own experiences.
Ambassador Mussie Hailu, URI Regional Director for Africa, and Ms. Elizabeth Birungi, Founder of Nature Sacredness and Cultural Rights Initiative, a URI CC in Uganda will be key speakers at this event.
Agenda:
Welcome and introduction by UNOCT, UNAOC, and URI (10 minutes)
Chair and Moderator: Ms. Nihal Saad, Director, UNAOC
Expert presentations (45 minutes)
Ambassador Mussie Hailu, URI Regional Director for Africa
Shaykh Dr. Umar Al-Qadri, Chair, Irish Muslim Peace & Integration
Council (IMPIC)
Ms. Elizabeth Birungi, Founder of Nature Sacredness and Cultural
Rights Initiative (NASACURI), URI CC Leader from Uganda*
The URI Latin America and the Caribbean Link Program invites you to the Winter Solstice Celebration, Fiesta de las Américas 2023, a festivity that we share with the URI Community since 2021.
The first Peoples of the Planet had ways of relating to the Environment, with the Sun, and the Earth. These forms were preserved through ceremonies or rituals, Inty Raymi, Pachamama.
Publicizing the calendar of festivities around the Sun, provides us with an ancestral tool for understanding Interreligious Dialogue, promoting environmental protection and address climate change that requires fundamental changes in values, mentalities and behavior patterns.
In 2019 the United Nations recognized June 21 as the "International Day of Solstice Celebration.
The April URI Youth Connection Café will be hosted by the Arizona Faith Network on Sunday 23rd April. The topic for this Café is "The role of diverse religions/faiths/traditions in social and environmental justice."
The Café will feature a special guest, the Venerable Tri Dao, a 34-year-old Theravada Buddhist monk, who is well known on TikTok (@venerable_tri_dao) where he has garnered over 1.3M followers, educating his audience on Buddhism, meditation, and mindfulness.
All URI members under the age of 35 are invited to join the call to meet new people and share insights and experience on projects of social and environmental justice.
URI Multiregion and URI Europe are partnering again to bring you a series of events on mental health, community, and individual resilience and exploring the role of interfaith collaboration in creating cultures of peace, justice, and healing called the Resilience Series.
Resilience Series aims at gathering URI Community to discuss resilience and work on our individual and collective resilience, paying special attention to mental health and interfaith collaboration.
Our URI Network is invited to join the community call and share and listen to members of different Cooperation Circles and Individual Members discuss what resilience is to them and how their culture, faith, and context shape the concept of resilience.
Interfaith spaces try to be "radically inclusive" by including people of different religious and spiritual backgrounds but struggle to include people who identify with being intentionally secular. Join us as we learn more about the spectrum of the secular-atheist identity, the challenges that occur when secular individuals engage in interfaith work, and the opportunity to promote stronger alliances for the work of peace, justice, and healing.
The event will feature speakers from American Atheists and Secular Strategies along with a moderator from the University of Southern California and their USC Office of Religious & Spiritual Life so please join us!
URI Latin America and the Caribbean invite you to be part of a webinar, "New roles and new challenges for women in faith communities and indigenous traditions."
Women of Indigenous Religions and Traditions will share the challenges that they face within their interreligious contexts, intercultural, and in their daily lives.
Participants will reflect on the great contribution that women make to the construction of Peace and the care of the Planet.
URI Southern Africa Invites you to a webinar aimed at introducing "The African Peacemaking Database"
Measurements for peacemaking tend to focus on the peacefulness of institutions, rather than people, or focus on the absence of violence rather than the daily living practices of peace. The African Peacemaking database aims to be a project that fills in these gaps with a community spirit created by grassroots peace practitioners and offers a uniquely African contribution to the metrics of peacemaking.
Together we will talk about the rituals or ceremonies that are important for us, in our traditions or where we live, as we honor Earth, feel our grief, and practice active hope.
URI and International Academy for Cultural Cooperation and its partners invite you to an interfaith service to remember those who have gone before us and continue to inspire us.
URI women from around the world will address the role technology has played in developing their communities towards peace, justice, and healing. The Panel will explore the role of technology, education, and female leadership in empowering and uplifting women from different countries and communities.
The NGO CSW Forum is the civil society side of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). Consisting of hundreds of events throughout two weeks, the Forum runs parallel to the official CSW session at the UN Headquarters. This allows civil society to engage in the processes and CSW sessions without ECOSOC-accreditation or a UN grounds pass.
Forum’s theme this year is: "Innovation and technological change, and education in the digital age for achieving gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls."
You are invited to join the first URI Youth Connection Cafe this year!
With this being our first YCC for 2023 - it's going to be a fun and inspiring workshop exploring what is possible with the URI network this year and how the work you are doing in your community can be strengthened and supported by a global community of peacebuilders!
We'll look back at some highlights from 2022 and then dream big about what's possible and what you are already doing this year.
URI invites you to join the conversation with the authors of “Religicide: Confronting the roots of Anti-Religious Violence," an insightful book that defines a new category of human suffering and the destruction of religion, its followers, and their traditions.
URI Executive Director Jerry White and Director of Partnership and Violence Prevention Karen Volker will be key speakers at this webinar.
Islamic Networks Group and Tri-City Interfaith Council are cosponsoring this interreligious panel during World Interfaith Harmony Week.
Panelists from major world religions will discuss how to be a good guest at your neighbor’s house of worship, and how to be a good host when welcoming people of other faiths into your house or worship.
URI North America invites you to a webinar to honor the voices and share insights of Indigenous Cooperation Circle members in North America.
Join and learn from Members of the First Nations Cooperation Circle about how spaces of faith and justice can do a better job at listening to their needs while working to create better practices in including and engaging indigenous people in the work of interfaith cooperation.
7 February 2023 - 5:00 am PST/ 8:00 am New York time
Heiwa Peace and Reconciliation Foundation together with International Buddhist Education Center and Sanghakaya Foundation invite you to an Interfaith Dialogue on Tuesday, February 7, 2023. Watch and participate in this event live on Facebook www.facebook.com/HeiwaPRF
Join URI and the Center for Earth Ethics to learn how your faith communities can convene consultation groups to restore local ecosystems. This will be an opportunity to listen and learn from nature and the people who want it to be sustained for generations to come.
You are cordially invited to participate in the webinar “The Role of Music in Harmonising Dialogue“ on the occasion of UN World Interfaith Harmony Week.
This webinar is the result of collaboration between Baraza Cooperation Circle, URI Europe, URI Great Lakes, and Faiths Together CC.
You are cordially invited to participate in the webinar “Building a Culture of Peace Partnerships to Support UNESCO’s Mission on the occasion" of UN World Interfaith Harmony Week.
Please join the Together with URI global community calls. All Cooperation Circles, Trustees, Global Staff, Individual Members, and donors are invited on a call highlighting URI's Human Rights efforts around the world.
You are invited to join the final Gathering for Earth is happening on 5 December 2022.
Since May 2022, Gathering for Earth has been bringing together URI members and Cooperation Circles from around the world to share ideas about care for the earth.
The final gathering will focus on actions participants are taking to restore the earth.
On November 22nd, URI is partnering with WWF and its Trillion Tree campaign to hold a presentation and workshop about tree planting practices. The first 40 minutes of the two-hour workshop will introduce participants to the new tree-planting guide specifically written for faith groups and spiritual communities.
You are invited to join URI North India and North America on 23rd November 2022 as we reflect on stories of collective trauma and healing in South Asia. Join us as our wonderful speakers walk us through their experiences of partition, gender, generational trauma and somatic healing, and the burden of tradition in South Asia.
Please join the Together with URI global community calls. All Cooperation Circles, Trustees, Global Staff, Individual Members, and donors are invited on a call highlighting URI's Women's Empowerment efforts around the world.
ACWAY, in partnership with United Religions Initiative, The Network For Religious and Traditional Peacemakers, and in collaboration with the G20 Interfaith Forum Youth Working Group, invites you to participate in this webinar - International Day of Peace 2022 - End Racism. Build Peace. - and make your contribution to the International Day of Peace (IDP) by adding value to the conversation through building peace by exploring how to address issues of racism in (inter-)faith spaces. Come along for some discussion and also find out where the next global forum will be held and how to apply!
Join the upcoming URI Youth Connection Café for a session on “Practicing Peace Within and Peace Without”. Led by Sally Zaghmout, from Beit Ashams for Self Development in Palestine, this session will introduce participants to simple practices of meditation and movement to help manage stressful emotions.
As young peacebuilders our work can cause stress and anxiety as we face community challenges and conflicts in a direct way. It is common knowledge that we need to practice our own inner peace to be peacebuilders in the world, but how do we do this? And how can we support each other and the communities around us with these practices?
In 1981 the United Nations established September 21 as the International Day of Peace to highlight “commemorating and strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among all nations and peoples.” The 2022 theme identified by the UN is "End Racism. Build Peace".
Each year many Cooperation Circles around the world celebrate the International Day of Peace. This year URI will also celebrate it as a global community through a "Together with URI" zoom call. We will focus on peacebuilding efforts in URI. URI staff will share one or two stories, then we will break into small groups for participants to share their own peacebuilding work. All members of the URI network are invited to attend.
This discussion will be led by URI Director of Global Programs, Alice Swett.
Please join the Together with URI global community calls.
ENORB is hosting a further conversation for reflection and connection as part of its programme of interfaith dialogue and continued focus on the rising concerns among faith and civil society organisations about the contemporary development of Islamophobia and resulting anti-Muslim hatred in Europe.
This is the last of 4 INTERGENERATIONAL gatherings being co-created the Youth Connection Cafe and Gathering for Earth this year.
Come and experience how rituals for healing our communities and Earth, also offer beautiful opportunities of intergenerational creativity and connection. We will share examples from Brazil and South Africa.
This session will offer tools and support for creating meaningful Earth rituals to guide us in healing our planet and people. Please register and join us for this special 90 minute session of interactive learning and celebrating the wisdom across generations!
Participate in the upcoming webinar, Restorative Justice: Reclaiming the Klamath River for Indigenous Peoples, organized by the International Academy for Multicultural Cooperation.
Join this call and learn about the tribal-led campaigns to restore the natural river flow, fish populations, and Indigenous spiritual and cultural practices associated with the river.
Look out for the next Violence Prevention Community Call.This call will focus on sharing lessons learned in peace-building work in difficult situations where there are active militias or gang violence.
In addition, special focus is on situations involving violence against indigenous communities or religious minorities.
URI Europe is delighted to invite you to join our upcoming community call, “Together We Thrive: Young Leaders Shaping URI Europe’s Future,”
This engaging session will focus on youth, mentorship, youth-led initiatives, and opportunities for networking within URI Europe.
We will highlight the incredible work of young leaders and facilitators from various URI Europe youth-led projects during 2024, and our team will provide a preview of exciting programs and opportunities planned for 2025.
As we step into December, a season filled with traditions that celebrate light in its many forms, we warmly invite you to join the URI December Community Call: Be the Light
Why Join? This interactive gathering will honor the significance of light in diverse traditions and reflect on URI’s role as a light of hope, unity, and resilience.
The call will include opportunities for small-group discussions, reflections, and sharing, creating a space to learn, connect, and celebrate as a global community.
Let’s come together to honor the light in our traditions and in our shared mission for a better world. We hope to see you there!
12 December 2024 - 4:00 am - 7:00am PST/ 12:00 - 3:00 pm GMT
URI invites you to be part of the next introductory 3-hour workshop.
This session will explore key practices to nurture our movement together towards our collective purpose of promoting interreligious collaboration, ending violence, and creating cultures of peace, justice, and healing.
