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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.

Young people are very much affected by the violence and tensions along religious lines that we are witnessing today in the Middle East but also in Europe, Asia, North America. The seminar is an interfaith initiative jointly organized by the Egyptian Muslim Centre Al Azhar (mosque and university), and the WCC.

Um die besonderen Beiträge von Glaubenstraditionen zu der internationalen Klimadebatte hervorzuheben werden der ÖRK und „Religions for Peace“ im Vorfeld des UN-Gipfels im September einen Interreligiösen Klimagipfel organisieren. Um tatsächlich einen Einfluss auf die internationale Klimaagenda zu haben, wollen wir ihre Bemühungen durch vielfältige Aktivitäten an der Basis weltweit unterstützen.

In order to highlight the specific contributions that faith traditions bring to the international climate debate, the WCC and Religions for Peace will organize an Interfaith Summit on Climate Change ahead of the the United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon's Climate Summit in September. To have an impact on the climate agenda, action needs to happen everywhere in the world. As key leaders meet in New York, their efforts will be enhanced by grassroots activities around the world, featured on the summit's website.