European Religious Youth Leaders Develop Roadmap for Hope at Regional Summit

(ITALY, May 25, 2008)—European youth leaders developed a roadmap to strengthen and equip the regional network after an assessment of the journey of the past two years. The Summit of European Religious Youth Leaders, 21–22 May 2008 in Rovereto, Italy brought together 16 youth representatives of the Sikh, Muslim, Jewish, Christian and Buddhist faiths from 10 countries in Europe including the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Georgia, Poland, Czech Republic, Belgium, and Spain.

The Summit was co-sponsored by Religions for Peace and the Campana Foundation.  After the launch of the Religions for Peace - European Interreligious Youth Network (EIYN) in 2006, the journey from Georgia to Switzerland to Italy has been full of both success and challenges.    

 

During the two-day meeting, the youth assessed the need for the EIYN, evaluated the EIYN's progress, and developed a strategic plan with which to move forward with their work for building, strengthening and equipping the EIYN.  The European multi-religious youth also elected an executive group of five members to represent the EIYN until the next annual meeting, tasked with the hiring of a part-time staff, and supervising the implementation of the first phase of the strategic plan. 

 

The Summit concluded with the re-affirmation of the EIYN members' commitment to the mission and vision of the EIYN laid down in the Geneva declaration. 

 

Religions for Peace Global Youth Network

The Religions for Peace European Interreligious Youth Network is a part of the Religions for Peace Global Youth Network which harnesses the energy and commitment of religious youth leaders all over the world to advance the mission of multi-religious cooperation for peace. 

 

The Global Youth Network gained full momentum in 2006 when the six regional inter-religious youth networks were launched in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, North America, as well as in Latin America and the Caribbean.  

 

The youth are working to mainstream youth and youth issues into Religions for Peace programming activities at the local, regional, and global levels.  This important work is led by the International Youth Committee (IYC), comprised of fifteen members representing the world's faith traditions from six continents. 

 

The Global Youth Network seeks to advance its work of mobilizing power of religious youth, building strategic partnerships with the United Nations, inter-governmental institutions, and civil society organization, and implementing action programs through national and regional inter-religious youth networks.  

 

Religions for Peace, a growing global network of inter-religious councils and groups, harnesses the power of cooperation among the world's religious communities to help stop war, end poverty, and protect the earth. Today, the Religions for Peace network consists of more than seventy national and four regional inter-religious councils and groups and the World Council of fifty elected leaders representing all major faith groups.

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