A regional workshop for teachers and educators was held inAmman,Jordanfrom 6 – 10 February 2007 under the aegis of the GNRC Arab States, the Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children and the Ecumenical Studies Centre.

Two Representatives from the GNRCAfricaPeace Clubs Raymond Kassoga andRogersFungo attended the World Social Forum which ended on 25 January inNairobi,Kenya. The duo joined the Caritas/AACC Ecumenical Platform and participated in various workshops, seminars and processions during the Forum.

The Ethics Education for Children toolkit testing workshops enter the home stretch with the seventh workshop successfully concluded inDar es Salaam,Tanzania. Thirty young persons between the ages of 13 and 18, and 20 adults from Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda participated in the workshop held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from 8 – 10 December

Deliberations have begun to collect background material and input for the Third Forum Organizing Committee, which will soon be established to prepare and plan for the event scheduled for 2008. 

The GNRC Coordinators Meeting was held inJapanfrom 16 – 18 November 2006. The GNRC 3rdForum expected to be held in 2008 dominated discussions at the meeting, in preparation for the Organizing Committee for the 3rdForum soon to be established for preparation and planning of the Forum.

Ninety young persons from 30 countries converged inAssisi,Italyto celebrate 20 years since the late His Holiness Pope John Paul II led world religious leaders to pray for peace. The meeting which took place from 4 – 8 November 2006 attracted participants from 12 faith traditions, including the Bahá’í, Brahma Kumaris, Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Jewish,

The GNRC Europe in cooperation with the Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council organized a young people’s multi-faith meeting in Solihull, Birmingham, United Kingdom on 20 October 2006 The meeting aimed to bring ideas to the youth on how to create a more peaceful school community.

The annual "Run for Unity" event at the Shanti Ashram in Coimbatore became a powerful follow-up of the South Asia Workshop on Ethics Education that was held in August 2006 assembling around 60 children and young people from all over India as well as other neighboring South Asian countries.

About 500 children from various schools in the city ofDar es Salaam,Tanzaniaparticipated in this year’s fete in which the International Day of Peace was marked around the world. The children and young persons from the GNRC Peace Clubs had earlier made 50 ‘Kites for Peace’ which were flown at the seasideCocoBeacharea in the afternoon of the UN

Adults and young representatives of different religious organizations in Spain gathered in Salamanca from 31 August to 2 September to test the toolkit on Ethics Education, developed by the Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children. The workshop in Salamanca was part of a series of workshops carried out around the world to bring local and

After testing the Ethics Education for Children resource kit inSweden,ColombiaandSwitzerland, it was now the turn forIndiato test the kit. The testing took place from 2 to 5 August inCoimbatore,India, and brought together 50 children and young persons.

The Interfaith Council on Ethics Education for Children continues to test the Ethics Education resource kit it is developing. The resource kit which is being tested in different situations around the world, has so far been tested in five workshops. TheKyotoworkshop which was the fifth in the line, brought together children and young persons from