Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue

“We listen and speak with respect to deepen mutual understanding and trust.” - URI Principle 5
SunDABT CC inviting interfaith dialogue

URI Cooperation Circles must include members of at least three different religions or traditions. By engaging in respectful conversations, members learn, share and build bridges of understanding.

Examples of our work in this Action Area:

  • Sun Devils Are Better Together (SunDABT), a university student group and URI Cooperation Circle, creates safe spaces for people to ask respectful questions about other religions by holding signs that read, "Meet a Muslim," "Meet a Jew," etc.

  • The URI global community celebrates UN World Interfaith Harmony Week (WIHW) in the first week of February each year, with grassroots interfaith events in many communities.

  • Campinas CC in Brazil hosted an interfaith gathering and invited representatives of multiple religious and faith beliefs to talk about life and death from the perspectives of their own traditions.
Search for Cooperation Circles (CCs) with a focus on Interfaith/Intercultural Understanding & Dialogue

Stories

Peace Seminar on Right of People to Peace organized by Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights on Eve of International Day of Peace 2014

Pakistan Council for Social Welfare & Human Rights (PCSW&HR) an active Cooperation Circle (CC) of United Religions Initiatives (URI) in Pakistan  observed the International Day of Peace on 21st September 2014.  Although PCSW&HR organized various activities to observe the peace day but the main activity was peace seminar on “Right of People to Peace” organized by the PCSW&HR on 21st September 2014 at Sialkot  - Pakistan