The URI Resource Library is a collection of downloadable materials and links to a variety of resources that support interfaith peacebuilding work.
Featured Resources
Appreciative Inquiry and URI
Appreciative Inquiry is a philosophy for positive change that was developed by Professor David Cooperrider and associates at Case University in Cleveland, Ohio. This document provides a brief summary of the Appreciative Interview process.
URI for Kids
A beautifully designed curriculum for children (and learners of all ages) that introduces URI's Preamble, Purpose and Principles, and provides excellent information and activities about different world religions and spiritual traditions.
Interfaith Peacebuilding Guide
The URI Interfaith Peacebuilding Guide is a resource for interfaith groups — those “everyday gandhis” who are making a difference one meeting at a time in their local communities.
One Peace celebrates the "Power of One," and specifically the accomplishments of children from around the globe who have worked to promote world peace in areas that include Sarajevo, Japan, Liberia, the United Kingdom, Cambodia, Afghanistan and the United States.
The essay "Opening the Dream: Beyond the Limits of Otherness" by URI founding Executive Director Charles Gibbs is in the anthology Deepening the American Dream.
This document describes various activities that have enlivened URI as a community, and draws from the experiences at URI global summits and regional assemblies.
Pathways to Peace is an international nonprofit educational, peacebuiliding, and consulting organization that works with other non-profit and non-governmental organizations to manifest peace in the world.
Peace Action works to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons, the development of a peace-oriented economy, an end to the international weapons trade, and promotes non-military solutions to international conflicts.
Peacebuilders is a community based program launched in schools that shifts the entire school climate to a peaceful, productive and safe place for faculty and students.