Education

Harmful stereotypes that fuel tensions between groups are usually rooted in ignorance. URI Cooperation Circles work to educate people to create safer, more peaceful communities.

Examples of our work in this Action Area:

Escuela de Amor CC has been visiting a Catholic school in Buenos Aires, Argentina for more than fifteen years, answering students’ questions about their different religions to prepare them for encountering interfaith colleagues in university and work life.
When a USA school board wanted to ban a book about Islam, the Women's Interfaith Network spoke eloquently on peace, tolerance and understanding, resulting in a unanimous vote to keep the book in the school system.
Cultural Infusion empowers young Australians by helping them use cultural and artistic expression to promote social cohesion.

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San Francisco Trip Report from Nyayiti Enoch Raymond of CEED Nigeria

As one of the participants in this important workshop, I provide a report that is intended to motivate active participation of my colleagues in the interfaith environmental related civil society work, and to bring inspiration and understanding into the work of the URI Global Initiative.

CC Profile Features: Women’s Empowerment

These three featured Cooperation Circles, located in India, Guatemala, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, are working towards the common cause of uplifting and empowering women to improve life for all members of their respective communities.

Featured CC Profiles from Kampala

Learn more about these three featured Cooperation Circles, who are working hard in Kampala, Uganda to improve life for people of all faiths and cultures.

Circles of Light 2015 - Reflections by Victor Kazanjian

Circles of Light 2015 - Reflections by Victor Kazanjian: It is such a joy when the URI community gathers, so often in circles, working together for peace among the peoples of the planet.

URI Welcomes 11 New CCs for March 2015

March clearly marks a growth tendency in URI. Having approved the largest group of CCs since conception, we can find the wish to make a difference in society as the common thread.

CC Profile Features: Youth Outreach

Learn more about these three featured Cooperation Circles, who are working with youth in Malawi, India, and Cambodia to improve life for young people and their communities.

World Interfaith Harmony Week 2015: Conferences and Educational Activities

Cooperation Circles around the world organized conferences and educational activities in honor of World Interfaith Harmony Week 2015.

CC Spotlight: Interfaith Power and Light

“Our mission is to deepen the connection between ecology and faith, emphasizing that alleviating climate change is a moral responsibility,” explains founder Rev. Sally Bingham.

Weekly Shot: Blantyre CC Makes Use of Environmental Seed Grant

Blantyre Cooperation Circle gathered 50 young people to help remove waste throughout a neighboring township during a 2012 clean-up event funded by URI environmental seed grants.

A Noble Beginning in 2015 - PEACE CC extends helping hand to disabled students

It was indeed a noble beginning for PEACE CC this year, as it extended valuable help to handicapped students. The brain behind this was Maitri, the dynamic youth of our CC.

Last month, during our meeting, Maitri Tanna, an active youth member of PEACE CC (Multiregion) came up with an innovative idea of mass collection of old newspapers, old paper boxes and selling them to earn some money and use the money to help two handicapped students attending school. She wanted to begin the New Year with a noble cause. As the old papers goes for recycling in a way this also helps towards environment cause, she said.

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