By Emmanuel Ande Ivorgba | Executive Director
Dear Friends,
Greetings, peace and blessings to you. Plans are currently underway towards the successful hosting of the 6th International Conference on Youth and Interfaith Dialogue. We are expecting to host 250 participants from more than 10 countries this year. The Theme of this year's conference is: The Role of Government and Civil Society in Promoting a Culture of Peace. The Conference will be held from 24-25 October, 2014 at the MERIT HOUSE, Maitama, Abuja, Nigeria.
The Conference is organized and hosted annually by URI Africa New Era Educational and Charitable Support Foundation, a Jos, Nigeria-based registered national nonprofit, of dedicated men and women and community leaders, intentionally teaming spiritual innovators and other exemplary adults with needful youth to equip them to pass forward all they have learned as valuable, contributing agents of change in their communities. The International Conference brings together community members, including representatives of CSOs and Faith-based groups within Nigeria and globally to foster mutual respect between diverse ethnic and religious groups. Furthermore, to support civil society and individuals who seek non-violent approaches to conflict and strive toward a shared future. Since its inception, in October of 2009, the annual International Conference on Youth and Interfaith Dialogue has introduced and supported initiatives that expand shared perceptions among individuals of different religions, cultures, genders, and ethnicities. The Conference will utilize an Interreligious and Intercultural Model for Dialogue and Peaceful coexistence in Nigeria, and a strategy to overcome misunderstandings and stereotypes that affect relations between groups and within societies. The women and men will provide recommendations to decision-makers, institutions and individuals for dignifying everyone and our shared values. In a safe space, the Conference will be a living model for creating prosperity, coexistence beyond war, and restoring friendships and trust.
Further details will be shared again shortly, as we are still at the planning stage at this time
Sincerely
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