DiscoverCrossing Faiths163 - Karen Volker: Preventing Violence
163 - Karen Volker: Preventing Violence

163 - Karen Volker: Preventing Violence

Update: 2025-05-19
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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.

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163 - Karen Volker: Preventing Violence

163 - Karen Volker: Preventing Violence

John Pinna and Elliot Toman