by Anna Tervahartiala | Feb 28, 2018 | News
If religion is part of the problem, it is part of the solution. This is the one-liner the Minster of Foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini believes in and repeats. He said it in his speech at the Alliance of Virtue conference in Washington DC, he wrote it in his...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Feb 15, 2018 | News
An important step towards preventing incitement to violence that could lead to atrocity crimes was taken on 13-15 February, when more than one hundred and fifty religious leaders and actors from around the world, Member States and United Nations officials gathered in...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Feb 9, 2018 | News
The Plan of Action – the first specifically designed to enable religious leaders to prevent and counter incitement to violence – was launched by United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on July 2017 at a meeting at United Nations Headquarters in...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Feb 9, 2018 | News
“We are seeing a divided world. We are seeing that misunderstandings between communities are on the rise and these misunderstandings are used to perpetuate violence,” director of the Washington DC Office of the Peacemakers Network Dr. Mohamed Elsanousi said when...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Feb 2, 2018 | News
More than 300 leaders, including evangelical Christian Pastor Bob Roberts of NorthWood Church in Texas, former U.S. ambassador Rabbi David Saperstein and Imam Mohamed Magid of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Virginia, will gather at the Washington Marriott...
by Anna Tervahartiala | Jan 30, 2018 | News
The theological training was also attended by the Moroccan Ambassador to Central African Republic (CAR) and CAR’s National Reconciliation Cabinet Director from the Ministery for Social Affairs. Both expressed their strong commitment to peacebuilding and...
