Tony Blair Faith Foundation
Provide the practical support required to counter religious prejudice, conflict and extremism in order to promote an open-minded and stable society.
Provide the practical support required to counter religious prejudice, conflict and extremism in order to promote an open-minded and stable society.
Build mutual trust and understanding through unique person-to-person programmes and activities in the region.
To build bridges and pathways between different cultures; wide enough to allow everyone to walk towards each other and embrace each another in complete harmony.
To promote dialogue, culture of coexistence, mutual understanding and to establish a common platform aiming information and opinion exchange.
Foster interfaith and intercultural dialogue, stimulate thinking and exchange of opinions on supporting and fostering democracy and peace all over the world and provide a common platform for education and information exchange; promote peace in the world and contribute to a peaceful coexistence of the adherents of different faiths, cultures, ethnicities and races; promote education, exchange of information, opinions and expertise, with a special focus on including as diverse a range of viewpoints as possible in our activities; organize conferences, seminars, panel discussions, common projects, scholarships, publications, meetings, trips and several other activities; promote the Fountain Magazine in Nigeria which is an initiative magazine of science and spiritual thought and bimonthly periodical, exploring life and our existence from a wide scholarship of humanities, natural sciences and perspectives on faith.
Foster knowledge, interfaith dialogue and cooperation between different faiths in Catalonia, from the perspective of the culture of dialogue and peace.
Explore and highlight the potentials of cultural and, in particular religious, diversity as a resource for peace rather than a barrier; create a critical mass of trained and sensitized peace workers in this particular field; create an integrated regional hub for research, training, information and documentation in the fields of peace, human rights, conflicts resolution and human development sensitive to the issues of structural and cultural diversity; develop a curriculum for Asian and African Universities focussing particularly on the cultural and religious dimension; promote the preservation of public spaces of communally inclusive heritage and cultural practices in India and elsewhere, and sensitize media and civil society about the common grounds between diverse cultures; create and reinforce networks of academic institutions in India and abroad concerned with intercultural peace and intercultural practices, to initiate Masters/PhD programmes for peace and development, and to host an online site for interreligious dialogue.
Strengthen the contribution of higher education institutions to education and research concerning the main cultural and religious principles of harmony and unity in a multi-ethnic and pluri-religious State; educate young people in a spirit of peace and tolerance, solidarity and intercultural and interfaith dialogue; ensure training of specialists able to exercise influence over the development of the cultural process in various aspects (social, religious, political, aesthetic); study the role and dynamics of cultural, spiritual and religious factors in the formation of the national identity of Kyrgyzstan; develop solutions to cultural conflicts and establish a basis for the formation of a tolerant democratic society.
Promote interfaith understanding through the study of comparative religion, and the transmission of specific intercultural skills such as mediation and dialogue.
Improve and promote strategies of leading cross- and inter-cultural dialogues aimed at withstanding any form of discrimination or violence, securing creative patterns existing in the framework of traditional cultures, and contribute to amplification of global culture of peaceful co-existence and sustainable development; improve and promote strategies of leading inter- and pluri-religious dialogues, directed at appeasement of open or latent contradictions, frictions or conflicts between adherents of different religious or spiritual practices, introducing values of these subcultures into comparative scientific research and societal debate; improve and promote transdisciplinary methodologies, regarded as indispensable tools of leading creative and innovative dialogue over traditionally defined and delimited borders between different scientific and/or philosophical disciplines, religious and/or spiritual doctrines, as well as different forms of social activism and inter-communal discourse.