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Youth Society for Peace in Nepal held several youth programs in a three-day celebration of International Day of Peace (IDP) at Peace Service Centre’s Ashram in Kathmandu.

URI's South India Region held several youth programs, as well as a special guest lecture, for International Day of Peace (IDP) this year in Kottarakkara, India.

Paryusana is one of the two most important festivals for the Jains, the other being Diwali.

In the last couple of years, the regional URI team here has been supporting Cooperation Circles at a community level, helping them grow broader visibility at the local and national level with stronger partnerships, while strengthening innovative governance within the network of URI.

URI India East Zone hosted a two days of assemblies in Ranchi, Jharkhand on the 9th and 10th August 2014.

Here I am sharing another new initiative in our East India zone. With the help of Ektaan Band Performance Funds, we are inaugurating a new Cooperation Circle (CC) learning exchange program.

Energized by our annual URI Global Council & Global Staff meeting at Santa Clara University last month, URI's Cooperation Circle Approval Committee met recently to review two membership applications.

A Faculty Development Programme on Renewable Energy and Alternative Fuels (REAF 2014) was conducted from June 16 to June 20, 2014 at Delhi Technological University (DTU), Delhi by Dr J.P. Kesari, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department and an active member of PEACE CC. Prof. Kesari, a former director at AICTE, is specialized in solar energy having obtained his PhD in the same field and is currently faculty adviser on solar projects at DTU, Delhi.

Peace Education Association and Center for Excellence (PEACE) CC took part in a dynamic discussion in Jakarta, Indonesia entitled “Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development” earlier this month.

It is not Mother's Day, yet I would like to write a note on these two mothers who are with Bishop Bill Swing and myself.