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What are some of the negative assumptions that are made about young people? And how can your actions change these? What is tokenism and why is it damaging for meaningful inclusivity? What makes intergenerational dialogue work well? Find out all this and more!

January 27th marks the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. Therefore, the Youth Connection Café for this month focused on the importance of this day, why it is important to remember the Holocaust and what the experiences of anti-Semitism look like in our world today.

The real danger of a nuclear catastrophe is not from a planned attack from Russia, which is what our defense strategy implicitly assumes. Our real danger is from an accident, such as responding to a false alarm, or a political miscalculation.

Religions for Peace and United Religions Initiative signed a Memorandum of Understanding on December 22, 2021.

Watch this video highlighting the work done by young people in URI around the world during 2021!

Young leaders from North America/Multi-Region (Erin Adarve and Vasu Bandhu), Europe (Mirjona Hoxhallari and Emina Frljak), and West Africa (Clement Awanfe Ngueto) represented URI, along with Regional Coordinator for North America Tahil Sharma and member of the URI UN team Audrey Kitagawa, at the G20 Interfaith Forum in Bologna, Italy from Sept 11 - 14th. Read about their experiences here! 

Circles of Light 2021 took place on October 5. This annual, unique virtual gala for the benefit of URI brings together our global community to participate and celebrate URI’s network around the world.

Members of multiple URI member groups came together to plant a memorial garden around their Peace Pole in Alabama, United States.

URI member group Voices for a World Free of Nuclear Weapons shares its latest newsletter, including International Day of Peace events.