URI Stories

I asked friends of mine who are experts in this field – former Secretary of State George Shultz, Physicist Sidney Drell, former Secretary of Defense, William Perry and eight others – to join with me once a month to try to discover new ways of advancing nuclear abolition.

Len Traubman passed away unexpectedly on October 4, 2019. It is an honor to give him tribute and welcome him to the Celestial Cooperation Circle of URI.

We, at URI North India and Afghanistan, have celebrated peace in diversified ways and with people from different walks of life.

Two second-generation saplings, descendants of ginkgo trees that survived the nuclear blast on Hiroshima, were planted at the San Francisco Japanese Tea Garden.

The Religions for Peace 10th World Assembly, under the theme “Caring for our Common Future—Advancing Shared Well-Being,” was held from August 20-23 in Lindau, Germany.

In the city of Buenos Aires, on September 28, an Interreligious panel on Religious Diversity was held for the Association of Argentine Female Judges.

We bring you our end-of-quarter Newsletter with a number of stories and social actions of our membership in Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, DRC and South Sudan.

Afghanistan Youth Empowerment and Peace-building Organization initiated the “AYEPO Peace Forum” on the eve of International Peace Day for school students as potential peace-builders in Kabul.

The Asian Age newspaper published our success story. Our student, Miss Tanveer Fatima, came from the slums and just sat for her 11th and 12th academic standard.