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Religion and Violence Prevention in the Americas

The United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers and the World Council of Churches will promote a meeting to discuss the role of religious leaders in preventing incitement to violence that could lead to atrocity crimes.

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Totem pole contributed by the Lummi people to Washington DC's 9/11 Memorial Groves project. Photo: D.B. King

Totem pole contributed by the Lummi people to Washington DC's 9/11 Memorial Groves project. Photo: D.B. King

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The United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, the Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers and the World Council of Churches will promote a meeting to discuss the role of religious leaders in preventing incitement to violence that could lead to atrocity crimes.

The regional meeting will aim to deepen understanding of the key role of religious leaders in preventing and countering hate speech and incitement to violence, learn from your experiences, identify specific contributions that religious leaders in this region can make to the prevention of such acts, and support the role of interreligious dialogue in conflict prevention, mitigation and reconciliation. It will also aim to establish a lasting network of religious leaders from the Americas who can support each other and act as agents of peace in their local communities.