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163 - Karen Volker: Preventing Violence
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John Pinna sits down with Karen Volker, the newly appointed Executive Director of the United Religions Initiative (URI). Karen shares URI's inspiring 25-year evolution into a powerful global grassroots interfaith network, detailing how its local "Cooperation Circles" tackle diverse challenges by applying a "health approach" to violence prevention, inspired by models like Cure Violence. Listeners discover URI's strategic focus on building capacity, fostering connections, and measuring the tangible impact of interfaith actors working collaboratively to create cultures of peace, justice, and healing, offering a hopeful vision for how diverse communities can achieve real-world change.
169 episodes
Manage episode 483681681 series 2581593
John Pinna sits down with Karen Volker, the newly appointed Executive Director of the United Religions Initiative (URI). Karen shares URI's inspiring 25-year evolution into a powerful global grassroots interfaith network, detailing how its local "Cooperation Circles" tackle diverse challenges by applying a "health approach" to violence prevention, inspired by models like Cure Violence. Listeners discover URI's strategic focus on building capacity, fostering connections, and measuring the tangible impact of interfaith actors working collaboratively to create cultures of peace, justice, and healing, offering a hopeful vision for how diverse communities can achieve real-world change.
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