Global Interfaith Coalition Formed To Support United Nations Peace Initiative

UN Decade Coalition Established to Advance Multi-Religious Cooperation for Peace

Faith and Values Organizations Form Coalitionto Advance United Nations Decade for Inter-religious Cooperation for Peace

(NEW YORK, 13 March 2009)—Religions for Peace, the world’s largest and most representative multi-religious coalition, was among the 45 religious, interfaith, and value-based organizations from five continents that agreed to form a coalition to advance a “United Nations Decade for Inter-religious and Intercultural Dialogue, Understanding, and Cooperation for Peace.” Coalition members expressed the hope that the UN Sixty-Fourth General Assembly, which will begin its deliberations in September 2009, will approve a resolution establishing such a decade from 2011–2020.