In 2025, Austria’s Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs held the award ceremony of the Intercultural Achievement Award, honouring outstanding international projects in the fields of intercultural and interreligious dialogue, human rights, integration and global citizenship. The ceremony recognized initiatives that promote mutual understanding, social cohesion and peaceful coexistence across cultural and religious boundaries, highlighting Austria’s commitment to international cultural policy and cross-cultural cooperation.
Almanac of Cyclical IRD Events
The Almanac of Cyclical Interreligious Dialogue Events is an online planning and knowledge tool showcasing regular interreligious dialogue events held by organizations around the world, some of which also give international awards in interreligious dialogue. To find an event, organization, or see what is happening in any given cycle, use the interactive sundial or the search critieria further down for the directory listing.
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G20 Interfaith Forum
The G20 Interfaith Forum is a platform for raising the level and effectiveness of religious inputs and providing a sharp focus on values on global policy issues.
Each year the IF20 draws on a global network of interreligious groups to address all aspects of the G20 agenda. Launched in 2014, during Australia’s Presidency of the G20, the Forum has developed into a sustained alliance of diverse religious leaders, practitioners from humanitarian, peacebuilding, and development organizations; and scholars.
In 2026, the G20 Interfaith Forum will convene under the theme “Interfaith Engagement for Policy Impact”, aligned with the United States’ G20 Presidency. Two major gatherings are planned: a Policy Forum at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. (26 May 2026), and the Annual Forum in Salt Lake City (15–17 October 2026).
The meetings will focus on economic growth, energy security, AI and the human future, and interfaith engagement around the UN Sustainable Development Goals, aiming to translate religious and ethical perspectives into concrete policy contributions linked to the 2026 G20 process.
You can read about the Plans for the 2026 G20 Interfaith Forum Year here
Read the summary of the 2025 and earlier Forums here
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G20 Interfaith ForumGeneral Assembly of Asian Conference of Religions for Peace
Multi-religious cooperation for Peace is the hallmark of ACRP. This cooperation includes but also goes beyond dialogue and bears fruit in common concrete action. Through ACRP, diverse religious communities discern “deeply held and widely shared” moral concerns, such as transforming violent conflict, bringing about just and harmonious societies, advancing sustainable development goals, caring for the earth, promoting nuclear and conventional disarmament and protecting human rights. ACRP translates these shared moral concerns into concrete multi-religious action.
10th Governance Assembly of the Asian Conference of Religions for Peace (ACRP)
The Asian Conference of Religions for Peace (Religions for Peace Asia) is convening its 10th Governance Assembly in November 2026 in Singapore. As the region’s highest governing body, the Assembly meets approximately every five years to review progress, set strategic priorities, and elect leadership. Marking the 50th anniversary of the first Assembly, the 2026 gathering is framed around the theme “Shaping Asia for Peace through Bold and Innovative Action” and will include women’s and youth pre-Assemblies, plenary sessions, and thematic commissions focused on interfaith collaboration, peacebuilding, and human dignity across the Asia-Pacific region.
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General Assembly of Asian Conference of Religions for PeaceGlobal Conference on World’s Religions
On September 15, 2016, the Global Conference on World’s Religions held its third and last edition. A Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World’s Religions was subsequently unveiled by the drafting committee.
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Link to the DeclarationGoldziher Prize for Journalists Award
The Goldziher Prize is an international journalism award inspired by the legacy of Ignác Goldziher, a pioneering scholar whose work fostered deeper understanding between Jewish and Muslim intellectual traditions. The Prize recognizes high-quality journalism that promotes nuanced, responsible and informed public discourse on Muslim–Jewish relations.
In 2025, the organizers honoured journalistic initiatives and organizations that reflected the values of the Prize’s namesake. Five initiatives were recognized for advancing religion reporting in journalism education, supporting young Palestinian refugee journalists, strengthening coverage of minority communities across the MENA region, amplifying peacebuilders, and elevating MENA voices in U.S. media.
Read here for The Goldziher Prize’s information on their competition and the 2025 Awardees.
The 2026 Goldziher Prize will join in celebrating the Making Peace Visible Story Awards to support journalism that highlights peacemaking as a central narrative in conflict reporting. See history of the Goldziher Prize
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Goldziher PrizeIntercultural Achievement Award Ceremony
Contributing to global trust-building and peaceful co-existence through intercultural and interreligious dialogue initiatives marks one of three central goals of Austrian foreign cultural policy which defines the necessity for intercultural and interreligious dialogue. The “Intercultural Achievement Award” (IAA) is a key project of the intercultural dialogue. The award honours successful, innovative projects in the field of the intercultural dialogue, both in Austria and on a global scale. The award is open to all those who identify and make use of opportunities within intercultural communal life. It is also designed for those who have successfully explored new avenues within the intercultural dialogue, who have mastered a specific challenge through intercultural actions, and who have promoted the dialogue of cultures and religions through their media presence.
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Intercultural Achievement Award CeremonyInternational Association for the History of Religions
IAHR promotes the scientific study of religion assisting the international collaboration of all scholars, member and affiliate societies contributing to the historical, social, and comparative study of religion.
The IAHR World Congresses constitute milestones in the history of the IAHR and the international study of religion. In addition, the IAHR Special and Regional Conferences help promote and support the scientific study of religions in various countries and regions around the world.
In 2025, the World Congress International Association for the History of Religions was organised against the backdrop of several major milestones: the 125th anniversary of the first World Congress of religious studies held in Paris in 1900, the 74th anniversary of the founding of the International Association for the History of Religions in Amsterdam, and the 25th anniversary of the European Association for the Study of Religions established in Kraków in 2000.
Held in Kraków under the theme “Out of Europe: Studying Religion(s) in Interconnected Worlds”, the Congress invited reflection on the historical origins and global scope of the academic study of religion. It highlighted Central and Eastern Europe’s complex, multi-religious history and encouraged scholars worldwide to explore the discipline’s past trajectories and future directions in an interconnected world.
The proceedings of the congresses and conferences arranged by the IAHR are published in various quarters, usually at the discretion of the hosting national associations. Proceedings can be found here when they are published.
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IAHR Official WebsiteInternational Council of Christians and Jews, Annual Conference
The ICCJ serves as the umbrella organization of 40 national Jewish-Christian dialogue organizations world-wide.
The ICCJ member organizations world-wide have been successfully engaged in the historic renewal of Jewish-Christian relations over the past five decades. Founded as a reaction to the Holocaust, the Shoah, in the awareness that ways must be found to examine the deeply engrained roots of mistrust, hatred and fear that culminated in one of the worst evils in human history, theologians, historians and educators included the still fragile structure of enlightenment and the human rights movements of the inter-war period.
The 2024 Annual Conference of the International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ) was held in Salzburg under the theme “Be Holy, because I, the Lord, Your God, am Holy” (Wajikra / Leviticus 19:2) Holiness: A Religious Imperative and Moral Obligation?” focused on deepening Jewish–Christian dialogue in the face of contemporary societal and political challenges. The conference brought together scholars, religious leaders and dialogue practitioners to reflect on historical responsibility, theological developments and the role of interreligious engagement in promoting justice, mutual understanding and peace in today’s world.
The ICCJ has announced that its 2026 Annual Conference will take place in Hanover, continuing its global programme of academic exchange and interfaith collaboration focused on strengthening Jewish–Christian relations and addressing current global concerns.
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ICCJ Annual Conference 2021INTRA Project Award for the Complementation of Religions
INTR°A was founded to advance the belief that the preservation, deepening and support of one’s own religious identity and spirituality can serve as the basis for an ongoing dialogue with other faiths.
The INTRA Project Award is given for advancing religious dialogue between equal partners, in an atmosphere which is free of exclusive claims to religious truth that devalue other faith communities, and in which all religious communities and individual believers are encouraged to ask what they are able to do in order to contribute to reconciliation, and how the ongoing interpretation and study of each group’s sacred texts can help in this task.
In 2025, the INTRA Project Prize was awarded to the European Network of Buddhist–Christian Studies (ENBCS) and the Hamburg-based initiative Mitgefühl in Aktion (MIA). The award recognised their contributions to interreligious dialogue and cooperation, particularly in fostering sustained exchange between Buddhist and Christian scholars and practitioners, and in translating dialogue into compassionate, community-based action.
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Project Awards 2019ISESCO General Conference
The ICESCO General Conference takes place every four years. Under the patronage of H.E. President Abdel Fattah El‑Sisi, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, the 14th Session of the General Conference was held in Cairo, Arab Republic of Egypt, on 8–9 December 2021.
The Conference brought together representatives of Member States, including ministers responsible for education, science, and culture, to review progress, adopt updated working documents, and define strategic priorities for the Organisation’s next phase.. Read the Official coverage here.
In February 2025, ISESCO announced that the 15th Session of the ICESCO General Conference will be hosted by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, alongside the Organization’s 46th Executive Council.
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Link to ISESCO General Conference pagesLatin America and the Caribbean Council of Religious Leaders
The Religions for Peace – Latin America and the Caribbean Council of Religious Leaders (LAACRL), one of the regional interreligious councils of the global network Religions for Peace, holds regular regional meetings, bringing together the representatives of the main religious communities in the region.
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