URI Stories of Impact

URI honors indigenous wisdom and leadership in helping people learn how to prevent violence and create peace. Two stories, then (1999) and now (2024),

URI invites people everywhere to value their own urge to do good: see a need, reach out, cooperate and create ways to help.

In the heart of Wadi Rum, a breathtaking desert landscape in southern Jordan known for its vast red sands, towering cliffs, and ancient petroglyphs, lies the small village of Al-Disah. It is here that Qutnah, also known as Umm Laith (mother of Laith), a remarkable Bedouin woman. 

Corrina shares an uplifting story of Wejdan Aljazi, a 39-year-old Bedouin woman living in Al-Husseiniyah, a village near Ma’an in southern Jordan who emerged from her despair stronger than before and laid the foundations for her artistic career.

A reflection from Corinna, a volunteer at URI MENA in Amman.

The Latin American Young Peace Leaders Training Program (FJLP) 2024

URI Remembers Series- A New Star

Healing Together - URI Community Call on Violence Prevention

URI Remembers Series - Ongoing Violence Prevention in Nigeria

United Religions Initiative (URI), founded by The Rt. Rev. William E. Swing, and the Oxford Interfaith Forum, founded and directed by Dr. Thea Gomelauri, have been awarded the 2024 Guru Nanak Interfaith Prize, awarded by Hofstra University in collaboration with the Sardarni Kuljit Kaur Bindra Charitable Foundation.