Interfaith Organizations

This is a list of organizations involved in similiar work to the World Bank's Development Dialgoue on Values and Ethics Unit.  The list is not exclusive but provides interesting material for similar works in this field. 

Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual Organization
BKWSO recognizes the intrinsic worth and goodness of every human being and helps people rediscover these attributes through a process of lifelong long learning. BKWSO holds general consultative status with the ECOSOC of the United Nations, and has consultative status with UNICEF.

Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions (CPWR)
The mission of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions is to cultivate harmony among the world's religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its other guiding institutions in order to achieve a peaceful, just, and sustainable world.

Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance 
The Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance (EAA) is a new and broadly ecumenical network for international cooperation in advocacy on HIV/AIDS and global trade.

International Association for Religious Freedom
The International Association for Religious Freedom aims to work for freedom of religion and belief at a global level. Encouraging interfaith dialogue and tolerance is part of the agenda.  They have over 90 affiliated member groups in approximately 25 countries, from a wide range of faith traditions including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Shintoism and Sikhism, among others

International Interfaith Centre
The International Interfaith Centre was inaugurated in Oxford, UK on 6 December1993, inspired by the 1993 Year of Interreligious Understanding and Cooperation. As a result of the increasing amount and variety of interfaith activity around the world, it was perceived that a need could be met by an international, interfaith centre which was informed about all these different efforts and able to encourage continuing interfaith understanding and cooperation.

Interfaith Alliance
The Interfaith Alliance and The Interfaith Alliance Foundation is the national non-partisan advocacy voice of the interfaith movement. It has 150,000 members from more than 70 faith traditions and people of good will united to promote democratic values, defend religious liberty, challenge hatred and religious bigotry and Reinvigorate informed civic participation.

InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington
The InterFaith Conference (IFC) brings together the Bah'ai, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish, Latter-day Saints, Protestant, Roman Catholic and Sikh faith communities in the Washington region to (1) increase understanding, dialogue and a sense of community among peoples of diverse faiths from different races and cultures, and (2) address issues of social and economic justice in defense of human dignity.

Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice
The ICPJ empowers people of faith and people of conscience in the Washtenaw County/Ann Arbor, Michigan area to act on their moral and religious values to build a better world.

The Interfaith Encounter Association.
The Interfaith Encounter Association is dedicated to promoting peace in the Middle East through interfaith dialogue and cross-cultural study.  We believe that, rather than being a cause of the problem, religion can and should be a source of the solution for conflicts that exist in the region and beyond.

Interfaith International
II was created as a call for Muslims, Christians and other faiths to work together for human rights (particularly in combatting human rights violations, and seeking solutions to racial, ethnic and religious problems). In May 1998, II received official NGO consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). II has since made oral and written interventions (sometimes together other NGOs) at the Commission on Human Rights and its Sub-Commission and their working groups. II places particular emphasis on bringing both religious and governmental leaders of the world together to discuss mutual concerns.

Interfaith Youth Core
IFYC's mission is to nurture a generation of new compassionate global leaders by engaging in diversity, connecting faith and action, and understanding the relationship between local trends and global issues.

Interfaith Working Group

The Israel Interfaith Association
The Israel Interfaith Association is dedicated to promoting peace in the Middle East through interfaith dialogue and cross-cultural study. Rather than being a cause of the problem, the IIA believes that religion can and should be a source of the solution for conflicts that exist in the region and beyond.
Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders 
For the first time in history religious and spiritual leaders from the major religious traditions and from all regions of the world met at the United Nations to pledge themselves to work for peace. They signed this "Commitment to Global Peace" and resolved to join together to address the pressing problems of conflict, poverty and the environment.

Minorities of Europe
Minorities of Europe (MoE) is a 'Pan European Inter-minority network' which seeks to support and assist the co-operation, solidarity and exchange between different minority communities and young people in Europe.

Ontario Consultants On Religious Tolerance
This site promotes religious tolerance.

Temple of Understanding
The Temple of Understanding (TOU) aims to achieve peaceful coexistence among individuals, communities, and societies through interfaith education. Its programs emphasize experiential knowledge and dialogue as a means of connecting people of all ages across a spectrum of religious traditions.

Three Faiths Forum
The aim of the Three Faiths Forun is to encourage friendship, goodwill and understanding amongst people of the three monotheistic faiths in the UK and elsewhere.

United Communities of Spirit
UCS is a global interfaith network that aims to link people of diverse faiths and beliefs- towards building a better world through cooperation and joint-work.

United Nations Spiritual Forum for World Peace Initiative

World Alliance of Reformed Churches
The aims of the Alliance are to strengthen the unity and witness of Reformed churches, to interpret and reinterpret the Reformed tradition, to work for peace, economic and social justice, human rights, and the integrity of the environment, to promote fully inclusive community, and to further dialogue with other Christian communions and other religions.

World Congress of Faiths
WCF works to develop better understanding, co-operation and respect between people of different faiths.

World Council of Churches
The WCC brings together more than 340 churches, denominations and church fellowships in over 100 countries, representing pver 400 million Christians; including most of the world's Orthodox churches, denominations from traditions as Anglican, Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist and Reformed, as well as many united and independent churches. While the bulk of the WCC's founding churches were European and North American, today most are in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, the Middle East and the Pacific.

World Council for Religion and Peace
The World Conference of Religions for Peace is the largest international coalition of representatives from the world's great religions dedicated to achieving peace. Respecting cultural differences while celebrating our common humanity, Religions for Peace is active on every continent and in some of the most troubled places on earth, creating multi-religious partnerships that mobilize the moral and social resources of religious people to address their shared problems.

World Fellowship of Inter-Religious Councils

World Youth Peace Summit
The objective in convening the World Youth Peace Summit (WYPS) is to engage youth leaders from every sector and region of the world to commit in the work of peace promotion and sustenance. The concept of the WYPS was launched at the 2002 Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious and Spiritual Leaders.

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