COLUMBIA, NEW YORK, January 30, 2002: The Center for International Conflict resolution at Columbia University (http://sipa.columbia.edu/cicr) and the Interfaith Center of New York (http://www.interfaithcenter.org) have been working to study and support the efforts of religiously inspired peacemaking throughout the world. They are combining efforts to create a Religion and Peacemaking Database (RPD) to document and make available the wide range of peace-making activities. Many of these efforts are only known at a local level, and thus the important models for peacemaking that they contain are not widely available, either to activists or to members of the international community concerned with conflict resolution. The database project is seeking relevant information about exceptional religious individuals and organizations involved in conflict resolution. To obtain more Information or submit a candidate, you can contact the above-mentioned websites or e-mail David Mumper, the project coordinator, at “source” above.
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