Agents for Social Change

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Zero Limits, a URI member group in Kerala, India, treats students as budding peacebuilders and teaches them to respect people of other religions and backgrounds.

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Dr. Mohan Lal and Dr. Devi Raj, Co-Founders of URI Zero Limits Cooperation Circle, with members of their team
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Dr. Devi Raj, Co-Founder of URI Zero Limits, being interviewed for the Visionaries episode
Dr. Devi Raj, Co-Founder of URI Zero Limits, speaks in front of a panel that includes The Rev. Victor H. Kazanjian, Jr., URI Executive Director, and Isabelle Ortega-Lockwood, URI Director of Global Communications and Strategic Planning
Members of Zero Limits greet Isabelle Ortega-Lockwood, URI Director of Global Communications and Strategic Planning
Zero Limits is a URI member group in Kollam, Kerala, India educating youth to become peacebuilding leaders
Dr. Mohan Lal, Co-Founder of Zero Limits, with Bill Mosher, Visionaries Founder
Abraham Karickam, URI Regional Coordinator for South India, honors a Zero Limits student
Dr. Mohan Lal and Dr. Devi Raj, Co-Founders of URI Zero Limits Cooperation Circle, are interviewed for the Visionaries episode
Zero Limits is helping these students to become the next generation of peacebuilders

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Dr. Mohan Lal and Dr. Devi Raj, Co-Founders of URI Zero Limits Cooperation Circle

Fathimah Hakkim and Krishna R.S., members of URI Zero Limits Cooperation Circle

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Zero Limits
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Zero Limits CC

Zero Limits CC members are comprised of educational specialists who are Hindu, Christian and Muslim. Additionally, they have 14 schools under their care and deeply believe in youth as agents in social change. 

Zero Limits’ founders are psychology experts who have created special training programs for schools and colleges. The group is committed to interfaith and intercultural relations, and provides educational and economic opportunities to the public, particularly youth. They also work on raising awareness of relevant issues within their community, such as environmental challenges and equal opportunity for women and girls, bringing people together to create solutions for the benefit of all.

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“Conflict [between religions] is because of our attitudes. If we have a good perspective, we will have a good community, so there will be no conflicts.”

- Fathima Hakkim

Building Cultural Harmony through Education

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The leaders of Karickam International Public School showcase an institution that serves students of different backgrounds without discrimination, and the children march for peace.

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Building Cultural Harmony through Education
Building Cultural Harmony through Education
Building Cultural Harmony through Education
Building Cultural Harmony through Education
Building Cultural Harmony through Education
Building Cultural Harmony through Education

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Dr. Abraham Karickam, Regional Coordinator for URI India (South Zone), URI Bangladesh, and URI Sri Lanka, and Chairman, Karickam International Public School

Greshma Raju, Cooperation Circle Liaison for URI India (South Zone)

Issac S. Thomas, leader of URI Global Youth Movement Cooperation Circle and URI Global Council Trustee

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Karickam International Public School
Education, Community Building, Interfaith

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Karickam International Public School - KIPS

Karickam International Public conducts programs for elementary and secondary school students for the promotion of harmony and understanding among different belief communities.

Each year, to mark the UN’s International Day of Peace, KIPS organizes an annual Children’s Peace Parade in the Kerala region of India. What began as a modest parade of the school’s students has grown to more than 800 participants from four schools around the municipality of Kottarakkara. This chapter is a celebration of the school’s commitment to peacebuilding, and the years effort to incorporate a curriculum built on respecting different beliefs and traditions.

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“Religion is very good, but there are people who misunderstand religion and they can propagate all kinds of ideologies which can disturb peace and destroy people. So it is very essential to know ‘the other’.”

- Abraham Karickam

Transforming Conflict in the Region

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Archbishop John Baptist Odama and Sheik Musa Khalil of Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative in Gulu, Uganda describe protecting at-risk children with their own lives and salvaging a war-torn community.

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Transforming Conflict in the Region
Transforming Conflict in the Region
Transforming Conflict in the Region
Transforming Conflict in the Region

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Rt. Rev. Bishop Macleod Baker Ochola II, Founding Member of Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative

Bishop Nelson Onono Onweng, Chair of Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative

Archbishop John Baptist Odama and Sheik Musa Khalil, leaders of Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative

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Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative
Peacebuilding, Conflict Transformation

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Acholi Religious Leaders Peace Initiative

This group brings together leaders of Uganda’s six predominant denominations (Anglican, Catholic, Muslim, Orthodox, Pentecostal, & Seventh Day Adventist). Together, they effectively promote conflict transformation in Northern Uganda and the surrounding region.

Its co-founders recall efforts to unite a community of people divided by religion as a means to counter the destruction wrought during the Northern Uganda civil war, particularly against women and children. In a series of moving interviews, they share what it was like to witness children running from their village homes at night to escape kidnapping by the Lord’s Resistance Army. These leaders decided to the accompany the children to an outdoor parking lot in the center of town, sleeping alongside them in the rain and on hard ground – a move that ultimately drew international attention to what was happening in the region.

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“If you don’t have protection for the children, why should you have protection for us? If our children are going to die, we are going to die with them.”

- Bishop Ochola

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