Participate in the events hosted by AID's friends within the realm of peace and security!
Visit each organization’s websites for more details.
Interfaith Youth Core – “Crossing the Faith Line” National Conference on Interfaith Youth Work
OneVoice – Echo Rally
Our Voices Together – Safer, More Compassionate World Forum
Project on Middle East Democracy – Middle East Democracy Conferences
The Stanley Foundation – Peace and Security Summits
Unity Productions Foundation – 20,000 Dialogues
Interfaith Youth Core - There are millions of religious young people in the world interacting with greater frequency. That interaction tends either toward conflict or cooperation. Where so many of these interactions tend towards conflict, the Interfaith Youth Core aims to introduce a new relationship, one that is about mutual respect and religious pluralism. Instead of focusing a dialogue on political or theological differences, we build relationships on the values that we share, such as hospitality and caring for the Earth, and how we can live out those values together to contribute to the betterment of our community. www.ifyc.org
Crossing the Faith Line: IFYC's 5th National Conference on Interfaith Youth Work
Don't miss an exciting opportunity to meet renowned religious scholars and interfaith activists! Join us for a three day conference bringing together individuals and organizations from around the world who are building religious pluralism.
October 28-30, 2007
Chicago Cultural Center
www.ifyc.org/conference
Conference program includes: inspiring plenary sessions, over 50 interactive workshops, panel conversations with leading think tanks and foundations, interfaith concert, 2007 Days of Interfaith Youth Service Awards Banquet, screening of award-winning documentary film, "Encounter Point" and more!
Featured plenary speakers:
* Dr. Martin E. Marty, University of Chicago
* Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah, Nawawi Foundation
* Shamil Idriss, UN Office of the Alliance of Civilizations
* Michael Wolfe, Unity Productions Foundation
* Sally Quinn, Washington Post/Newsweek
* Gibran Bouayad, Abraham's Vision
* Ari Alexander, Children of Abraham
Participating Organizations: Abraham's Vision, The Bridge Institute, Children of Abraham, City Year Chicago, Council on Foreign Relations, Crib Collective, Faith in Place, Habitat for Humanity, Hillel at Northwestern University, I.D.E.A. Calgary, The Interfaith Action, Interfaith Center of Greater Philadelphia, Interfaith Works, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship at University of Illinois, Just Vision, Living Room Dialogues, Loving Kindness Peaceful Youth, Muslim Girl Magazine, Muslim Public Affairs Council, Progressive Jewish Alliance, The Pathways Project at Tufts University, The Scottish Interfaith Council, Search Institute, See3.Net, Soul Sunday, Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, Thanksgiving Coffee, Youth Service America, Youth Theological Initiative
Register at www.ifyc.org/conference
OneVoice - OneVoice aims to amplify the voice of the overwhelming but heretofore silent majority of moderates who wish for peace and prosperity in the Middle East, empowering them to demand accountability from elected representatives and ensure that the agenda is not hijacked by forces of militant absolutism. www.onevoicemovement.org
Echo Rally
Please see Upcoming Events for more information.
Our Voices Together - Our Voices Together a non-partisan, non-profit group formed by 9/11 families and friends, invites community, civic, and student groups to co-host “Safer, More Compassionate World Forums” that explore truly comprehensive approaches to counterterrorism and national security—those that use the power of citizens to build international understanding and trust. www.ourvoicestogether.org
Safer, More Compassionate World Forum
Fall 2007/Winter 2008 Nationwide Series Addressing Terrorism From the Ground Up Seeks Campus Forum Hosts.
The Challenge: The reality of the fight against terrorism is that our security depends on engagement, not disenfranchisement, with communities overseas. Military force, intelligence, and security measures alone will not defeat terrorism. What more is needed?
The Response: This nationwide forum series is designed to stimulate a more informed public discussion on how citizens can help mitigate the threat of terrorism through actions that contribute to what the 9/11 Commission called the Agenda of Opportunity: education, employment and the possibility for a brighter tomorrow. The series will launch August 30, 2007 at the National Press Club in Washington DC with international journalists, and will continue throughout the fall and into 2008.
Every citizen has the capability to make a difference in the world. With interaction and engagement, we can end the popular support for terrorism. Join the movement by organizing a forum on your campus! This toolkit (attach their toolkit) will help you in your planning. For more information, please visit www.OurVoicesTogether.org/forums http://www.ourvoicestogether.org/forumsor contact Veronica Beebe at info@ourvoicestogether.org . Tel 202-223-0080
Project on Middle East Democracy - The Project on Middle East Democracy is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to examining the impact of American policy on political reform and democratization in the Middle East. Through dialogue, policy analysis, and advocacy, we hope to promote understanding of how genuine, authentic democracies can develop in the Middle East and how the U.S. can best support that process. www.pomed.org
Middle East Democracy Conferences
More to come on Upcoming Events.
The Stanley Foundation - The Stanley Foundation brings fresh voices and original ideas to debates on global and regional problems. The foundation seeks a secure peace with freedom and justice, built on world citizenship and effective global governance. It is a nonpartisan, private operating foundation focusing primarily on peace and security issues and advocating principled multilateralism. The foundation's concept of principled multilateralism means working respectfully across differences to create fair, just, and lasting solutions. www.stanleyfoundation.org
Peace and Security Summits
Please see Upcoming Events for more information.
Unity Productions Foundation - 20,000 Dialogues is a film-centered dialogue project that brings together Muslims and non-Muslims using films about Islam in America to stimulate discussion and promote understanding. It takes the concept of interfaith dialogue out of the realm of faith leaders into the hands of ordinary people who want to make a positive difference across cultures and faiths. www.upf.tv
20,000 Dialogues
20,000 Dialogues will use screenings and excerpts of the films to bring people together and stimulate discussion and positive actions towards mutual respect and breaking down barriers of bias and stereotypes, fear and helplessness, misperceptions and misinformation.
How to Get Involved
The implementation of 20,000 Dialogues is simple –email dialogues@upf.tv to agree to host a dialogue with a date determined consisting of a minimum 5 people, at least one of whom is Muslim. You will receive a copy of UPF’s film on DVD and download a ‘Dialogue Planner’ and ‘Discussion Questions’. The host will not receive the DVD until she has identified the date of the dialogue. Additional reading material will also be referenced. The host may find dialogue participants of other faiths on the website as well, using a system that will help connect people. After the dialogue, participants will go to the website to evaluate their experience. Alternatively, a number of faith groups can host a ‘screening party’, where people of different faiths watch the film together, then break up into interfaith discussion groups and evaluate the experience.
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