This first meeting took place on April 1st, 2016, at Geneva UPF Office, at the initiative of Mr and Mrs Handschin, with the idea to create a new « think tank » or reflexions on how to promote and defend family values in the UN and internationally, in a more global and universal way, promoting the good family values and discouraging the « relativists » or liberal lobbyists to not invade this group. 11 people representing 8 NGO/Associations attended this inaugural meeting: A Catholic Association, a Woman leader in a Humanitarian NGO, a Prenatal Education Association, The Fondation Entre-Connaissance, the Universal Peace Federation (switzerland.upf.org), Women's Federation for World Peace (wfwp.org), Family Federation for World Peace (ffwpu.ch), and the Geneva Interfaith Intercultural Alliance (giia.ch).

Below is picture of the participants of this first meeting, and  here you can download the proceedings of the …

Michel Reymond invited to an interreligious roundtable at the WCC, representing the Universal Peace Federation and GIIA.

Geneva, Switzerland - October 26, 2015

(WCC link: http://www.oikoumene.org/en/press-centre/news/religion-and-violence-relationship-probed)

This is the 2nd year that UPF is invited by Dialog-Institut, a Zurich based NGO to take part to the “Noah Celebration” commemorating the Day of Ashura, a traditional Muslim feast and celebration of humanity’s survival after the biblical flood. The roundtable discussion was about the perplexing yet perennial association of religion and violence and was probed this week in an event co-hosted by the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) and the Zurich-based Dialog-Institut.

Forty participants explored first the phenomenon of violence committed…