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VPAR - Visions for Peace Among Religions
The Visions for Peace Among Religions Global Inquiry is a 3 year project designed to create an interfaith guided conversation about peace that will gather together people's experiences, hopes and dreams for waging peace, seeking justice, and healing conflict among the world's religions. The VPAR Inquiry dares to hold the outrageous hope that it is possible to make a profound change toward peace among the families of faith. Its radical premise is that by making peace among themselves, religions and traditions will become more and more a collective force for peace, justice and healing in our world. The VPAR Global Inquiry challenges participants to make a sweeping break with history. We are beginning conversations with each other based on the desire to create a new equilibrium -- founded not on conquest over the other but on respect and cooperation. Several times over the next three years, and at the end of the three-year conversation, documents will be assembled that synthesize the best stories, hopes, dreams, and ideas that we've heard. These documents will serve as catalysts to create a global standard for peace among religions. The documents will have the moral voice of everyone who participated in the conversations. In addition to creating a new global standard for peace among religions, the United Religions Initiative will nurture local peacemaking projects that emerge over the course of the conversation. Such projects might include social action projects, books, works of art, or educational curricula. In all, when the global inquiry concludes in the summer of 2005, we will all share new relationships with people we would not have known otherwise.
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