IRD Activities

• The Thích Nhất Hạnh Program for Engaged Buddhism

  This program promotes academic and public education aimed at cultivating diverse Buddhist responses to pressing social issues. It seeks to generate innovative and informed discourse on topics, such as violence, climate change, racism, poverty and economic inequality, incarceration, gender and sexuality, religious pluralism, and the intersection of contemplative practice and social action

• Kairos Center

  Kaisor is the center for religions, rights, and social justice. It works to strengthen and expand transformative movements for social change that can draw on the power of religions and human rights

• The Islam, Social Justice, and Interreligious Engagement Program

  This program promotes academic and public education aimed at cultivating diverse Islamic responses to pressing social justice issues. Recognizing that social justice issues require cooperative reflection and action, ISJIE affirms the value of dialogical exchange and generates innovative and informed discourse on topics, such as climate change, racism, religious pluralism, violence, poverty and economic inequality, incarceration, and gender and sexuality. ISJIE activities are undertaken in a deliberately interreligious fashion, and the program actively seeks to engage a broad range of religious and non-religious voices

• The VISION program

  This program engages mid-career faith leaders in a two-year collaborative leadership program designed to support new ministries and build clergy relationships across denominations and religious traditions

• Women’s Interfaith Residency Program

  This womens' program invites five women from different faith backgrounds to probe new contexts for interfaith dialogue by living together in intentional community

Main Focus Countries of Activities

New York, NY, USA - New York, NY, USA - New York, NY, USA - New York, NY, USA - World