URI Stories

United Religions Initiative (URI) and the United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect have signed a partnership agreement, enhancing their working partnership at the global level to promote a culture of peace.

An identity map hangs on a wall, representing both the visible and invisible qualities of a person. Another map hangs beside it, and another and another, until you see a room full of these maps, and a diverse group of middle and high schoolers reading one other’s, growing in empathy and unity.

Victor Rey, a member of the Santiago Spiritual Forum for Peace who resides in Ecuador, participated in the training workshop on Human Rights on Freedom and Religious Equality.

“This album, for me, is a tool for inspiration, elevation, and change.”

URI will be featured in more than 50 programs and workshops at the 2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions, the largest global interfaith gathering, this November 1 – 7, 2018 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, ON.

By words and actions, people all over the world give voice to URI. Read an example.

A group of 30 women from different walks of life attended the program.

Every year on September 21st, URI members around the world join fellow peacebuilders in celebrating the United Nations International Day of Peace (IDP) .

See how the URI community throughout the world celebrated the International Day of Peace 2017.