Switzerland - The Graduate Institute, Geneva

COUNCIL FOR A PARLIAMENT OF THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS
Address
Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions,
70 E. Lake Street, Suite 205, Chicago, IL 60601
Phone Not indicated.
Fax 312.629.2991
Web www.cpwr.org
E-Mail Contact form on their website.
Category Dialogue
MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions is to cultivate harmony among the world's religious and spiritual
communities and foster their engagement with the world and its other guiding institutions in order to achieve a peaceful, just, and
sustainable world.
Founding year 1988.
BACKGROUND AND ACTIVITIES
The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions’ role as a facilitator of interreligious encounter, dialogue and cooperative
common action puts it in a unique position to encourage and enable the religious and spiritual communities themselves to address
the critical issues in meaningful and powerful ways. The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions does this by:
• Working to establish respectful and trusting relationships with each religious and spiritual community
• Providing models for encounter, dialogue and cooperation within and among religious and spiritual communities
• Encouraging religious and spiritual communities to develop their own rationales for interreligious dialogue and cooperation, and
address the critical issues Providing models for, and access to, creative engagement between religion and spirituality and other
guiding institutions (e.g. government, business/commerce, education, media, and science)
• Bringing the critical issues to the attention of the religious and spiritual communities, along with thoughtful perspectives and up-todate
and reliable information
• Assisting individual religious and spiritual communities, and "communities of communities" in developing their own visions of
possible futures.
Upcoming events include significant participation in the 2007 Universal Forum of Cultures in Monterrey, Mexico and the 2009
Parliament of the World's Religions.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Küng, H. (1993). Towards a Global Ethics: An Initial Declaration. Chicago, Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions.
Rev. Dirk Ficca: Executive Director, dirk@cpwr.org
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