At the Eighth World Assembly
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Religions for Peace is the largest international coalition of representatives from the world’s great religions dedicated to promoting peace.

Respecting religious differences while celebrating our common humanity, Religions for Peace is active on every continent and in some of the most troubled areas of the world, creating multi-religious partnerships to confront our most dire issues: stopping war, ending poverty, and protecting the earth.

Religious communities are the largest and best-organized civil institutions in the world, claiming the allegiance of billions across race, class, and national divides. These communities have particular cultural understandings, infrastructures, and resources to get help where it is needed most.

Founded in 1970, Religions for Peace enables these communities to unleash their enormous potential for common action. Some of Religions for Peace’s recent successes include building a new climate of reconciliation in Iraq; mediating dialogue among warring factions in Sierra Leone; organizing an international network of religious women’s organizations; and establishing an extraordinary program to assist the millions of children affected by Africa’s AIDS pandemic, the Hope for African Children Initiative.

Religions for Peace brings together hundreds of key religious leaders every five years to discuss the great issues of our time. In August 2006, the Eighth World Assembly convened in Kyoto.

FAITH-BASED ORGANIZATIONS
Cordaid
Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers
Norwegian Church Aid
Rissho Kosei-kai
Uniting Protestant Churches in the Netherlands (Kerkinactie)
Religions for Peace-Japan

 

FOUNDATIONS
Arigatou Foundation
Blum Family Foundation
Meredith Anne Dasburg Foundation
Ford Foundation
William and Mary Greve Foundation
Irfan Kathwari Foundation
The King Baudouin Foundation
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Oliver Family Foundation
The AKT Communities Fund of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation
Eleni-Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Fund of the Sacramento Region Community Foundation
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Theodore & Vada Stanley Foundation

 

INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES and NGOs
CARE International, Inc.
Family Health International
Lutheran World Relief
Plan International (for the Hope for African Children Initiative)
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
United Nations Development Fund (through the Millennium Campaign)
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
World Learning

 

GOVERNMENTS
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tirana, Albania (through the Stability Pact for South-East Europe)
Royal Government of the Netherlands, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)
Kingdom of Norway, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

 

CORPORATIONS
Abbott Labs
Eidolon Communications
Glazer and Kalayjian, Inc.
Northwest Airlines, Inc.

 

INDIVIDUALS
Thomas J. Barrack, Jr.
Dr. John Brademas
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. McLarty III