The Founder of the Institute of Economics and Peace speaks about the importance of Interreligious Dialogue for Peace endeavours and explains how its impact can be measured and and assessed.

The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit research organization dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human well-being and progress. It achieves its goals by developing new conceptual frameworks to define peace; providing metrics for measuring peace; and, uncovering the relationship between peace, business and prosperity.

The Dialogue Voices clip adresses the activities of Affinity as well as how to face and overcome challenges in their interfaith work.

Affinity Intercultural Foundation was formed by a group of young Australian Muslims in 2000 and incorporated in 2001, to meet the needs of the Muslim community in interacting with the greater society along with the needs of the general public to increase its awareness of the Muslim community, its religion and culture.

Sudhagar Raghupathy explains the activities and aims of the Together for Sweden programme. He also shares his perspective on why interreligious dialogue is important and at the centre of each religious tradition.

Together for Sweden is an inter-religious programme where believers and non-believers alike meet to discuss various issues relating to their religions and to human values generally. The programme addresses hostility towards foreigners, racism and extremism. The project uses religion as a means of integration and shows that religion can be a force to be reckoned with in achieving peace and understanding. The work is lead jointly by a priest and an imam and hence stands out among other Swedish initiatives that work with engaging youth.

Pavol Bargar has been active in interreligious activities for years, not only between Christians and Jews but also including Muslims, atheists and people of other faiths. He votes for an open discussion of various approavches, without trying to levelling out the differences between religious convictions.

The Czech Society of Christians and Jews is one of 40 organisations coordinated by the International Council of Christians and Jews (ICCJ). As the Czech Republic is considered the most agnostic country of the world in which religions have less and less influence and that at the same time rejects the imposition of atheism by ex-communist power, this Society of Christians and Jews intends to create a positive image of religions and their relationships.

The Chairwomen of Czulent Jewish Association speaks about the growth and development of the organisation and how the recent focus is on decreasing stereotypes between religious and ethnic minorities.

Czulent Jewish Association was established in 2004 as an independent association of young Jews in Krakow. One of the main goals of the association is to promote tolerance and to shape attitudes towards openness to national, ethnic and religious minorities, with particular emphasis on condemning anti-Semitism. For this purpose, they organize workshops and classes devoted to anti-discrimination education, as well as more informal settings aimed at teaching anti-discrimination. The association also supports activities aimed at an exchange of experiences among organizations working towards wider tolerance.

The shortclip focuses on interreligious activities and the meaning and importance of interfaith in today’s society.

Faiths Without Borders is an interfaith and inter-worldview NGO and United Religions Initiative Cooperation Circle that promotes internationally a sustainable lifestyle. FWB was founded in 2009 at the Finnish Social Forum, to promote constructive dialogue and cooperation between people from different cultures, faiths, and convictions, to build a culture of peace and to work in the field of sustainable development for social justice, equality, peace, and well-being for all.

Ilja Sichrovsky explains the activities of MJC and speaks about the importance of the knowledge about the other.

The Muslim Jewish Conference (MJC) is an Austrian dialogue and leadership organisation for students and young professionals that gathers 100 participants annually during six days to discuss topics of concern for Muslim and Jewish youth. The main conference goals are to provide the next generation with a learning experience for life and a positive outlook for establishing intercultural relations and sustaining Muslim-Jewish partnerships.

The monk Athipatay Maytryjit is responsible for the Vientiane based Lao Buddhist Fellowship Organization. He hopes to help people of all religions in Laos live with HIV/Aids and is supportive of all people no matter their religious background who seek advice or help.

As religion serves as an important point of reference for youth, the Lao Buddhist Fellowship Organization aims to bring together educators and leaders of different religions in Laos in order to educate young people in the fight against AIDS. The organization promotes the unity of all religions of the world with regards to common goals of social justice.

The Chairman of the Adyan Foundation shares thoughts about the impact the foundation’s work has had so far and what in his opinion ios important to consider to engage in interreligious dialogue.

The Adyan Foundation (‘’Adyan’’ means ‘’religions’’ in Arabic) is the biggest interfaith organisation in Lebanon. Its founding members are Christians and Muslims willing to act together to restore relations after the 1975-1990 war that left deep wounds. Four key sectors have been identified: kids’ education to coexistence, production of movies about reconciliation, solidarity between Christians and Muslims, and cross-cultural studies.

Sorn Pov, representative of the Interfaith Youth Circle of Cambodia, speaks about the interreligious situation in Cambodia, his organisation’s activities and the role of interreligious dialogue for his work.

The Interfaith Youth Circle of Cambodia CC (IYCC) , located in Svey Rieng, Cambodia, works on issues concerning climate change, farming, poverty and migration. IYCC has been able to unite Christians and Buddhists to collaborate and find sensible solutions to deal with farming practices and population displacement induced by global warming. IYCC provides resources, programs, and training to farmers from diverse faith backgrounds. IYCC brings people of different religions together and provides a space to address their common problems caused by challenges from climate change and poverty.