Community Building

Fostering strong, healthy communities is at the core of URI’s work.
Youth for Peace CC's summer school in Bosnia and Herzegovina

URI encourages people to help each other by reaching across religious, ethnic, and cultural lines, creating a culture of respect and safety that fosters peace even during difficult times.

Examples of our work in this Action Area:

  • In Pakistan, the URI MCC Islamabad office works for inter-religious peace by addressing local Muslims' and Christians' joint need for necessities like roads, sewage systems, gas and water
  • In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Youth for Peace CC's summer school brought together young people from different backgrounds to serve their community through volunteering efforts like helping disadvantaged families, painting houses, and repairing old cemeteries
  • After a Helsinki mosque was vandalized, URI members from the URI Multiregion formed an interfaith group to clean it, sending a strong message that they would not allow their community to be divided
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Palestinian and Israelis Climbed Everest for Peace on PBS - Nationwide TV

Everest: A Climb for Peace will begin airing nationwide on Public Television (PBS) starting Saturday, October 23rd.  The film will be pre-released on the WORLD Channel, which airs on 124 Public TV stations nationwide including the following top ten markets: New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Dallas, Boston, and Atlanta. 

It will feed to these 124 stations on two consecutive Saturdays:

- First on Oct 23rd at 8:00am, 2:00pm, 8:00pm and 2:00am
- And then again on October 30th at 12:00pm and 6:00pm.
- It also will feed once on Friday, October 29 at 5:00am.
- Please check your local listings as times may differ according to station.

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Greetings of love and peace from the Kuala Lumpur Airport as I await the beginning of my long journey homeward – Kuala Lumpur to Singapore to Hong Kong to San Francisco 21+ hours later –...