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– Religions for Peace
Religions for Peace is the largest international coalition bringing together representatives of the world’s religious communities who are dedicated to achieving peace. Respecting cultural differences while celebrating our common humanity, Religions for Peace helps this leaders take common action in areas such as conflict transformation, children, disarmament, peace education, and women’s concerns.
A Non-Government-Organization (NGO) accredited to the United Nations, religions for Peace is a non-sectarian, non-political coalition that mobilizes the unique social and moral resources of the world’s religious communities. Our current initiatives include facilitating and supporting the development of the Iraqi Inter-religious Council/Religions for Peace – Iraq, body whose broad mandate speaks to its vital role in helping Iraq’s citizens build lasting peace and a just and tolerant society; building civil societies in Southeastern Europe, and brokering peace in Sierra Leone; partnering in the Hope for African Children Initiative benefiting millions of children orphaned in Africa’s AIDS pandemic; and building a Global Network of Religious Women’s Organizations to help women share their experiences and perspectives, and to encourage multi-religious collaboration.
Religions for Peace (full name: the World Conference of Religions for Peace) was founded in 1970. Since then, it has brought hundreds of religious leaders together every five years – most recently in Amman, Jordan, in 1999 – for World Assemblies in which people of many faiths discuss issues that transcend religious and ethnic boundaries, and affirm their shared commitment to multi-religious cooperation and common living. The goals and agendas developed during these gatherings serve as a foundation for the vital work carried out by Religions for Peace every day around the world.
Field offices and affiliate organizations in more than 40 countries complement Religions for Peace’s New York-based International Secretariat. Religions for Peace also is strengthened by its partnership with civil-society institutions around the world. Religions for Peace is active in more than 100 nations on every continent, including some of the most troubled places on earth.
Religions for Peace bases its work on the principle
that collaborative action by religious communities is a highly effective
method of building peace and addressing shared concerns. When religious
communities recognize their shared values and commitments – to
peaceful living, to the well-being and education of children, to human
rights, to the preservation of our Earth and its resources – they
have the power to overcome the intolerance that so often sparks conflict,
and to communicate and act in ways that political institutions often
cannot. Religions for Peace harnesse
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this enormous potential at the local, national, and international levels.
Religions for Peace receives funding from leading international foundations and development agencies, including The Ford Foundation; The Rockefeller Foundation; The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation; The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation; Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers; the Rissho Kosei Kai Fund for Peace; the governments of Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United States, and Norway through Norwegian Church Aid; the European Union; the United Nations, through UNDP, OHCHR, and UNICEF; and from religious communities and organizations worldwide.
Norbert Klaes, WCRP representative at Oxford network meeting 2003
Contact: WCRP, 777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA. Tel: (212) 687 2163
E-mail: info@wcrp.org www.wcrp.org
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