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Millennium World Peace Summit
The 2000 gathering at the United Nations General Assembly that founded the World Council of Religious Leaders.
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The 2026 Global ConveningOne World: One Humanity
One World: One Humanity
A gathering of the world’s most respected faith leaders — convened to offer hope, moral clarity, and a shared voice in a moment that asks more of us all.
August 29, 2026·New York City
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H.E. Bawa Jain's Welcome Message at the One World One Humanity Summit
H.E. Bawa Jain, Secretary-General of the World Council of Religious Leaders, welcomes faith leaders to the One World: One Humanity summit — August 29, 2026 in New York.
“To bring the spiritual resources of the world's religious traditions to the work of peace, justice, and the healing of conflicts.”
From our charter · Millennium World Peace Summit · UN General Assembly · 2000
The Council
Convening the world's religious traditions
Founded at the UN's Millennium World Peace Summit in 2000, the World Council of Religious Leaders convenes faith leaders across 14 traditions in support of peace and the work of the United Nations — aiming to serve as a model and guide for a community of world religions in the pursuit of peace, justice, and mutual understanding.
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Turning the Call to Action into practice. Choose one action, make it specific, and tell us what you did.
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One World: One Humanity
The 2026 global convening of faith leaders in New York — affirming shared humanity, moral leadership, and practical cooperation.
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With the Center for Responsible Leadership — a human-centered framework for artificial intelligence grounded in dignity, justice, and moral wisdom.
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Ethical AI: charting a human-centered future
With our sister organization, the Center for Responsible Leadership, the Council is advancing a human-centered framework for artificial intelligence — grounded in transparency, accountability, justice, and the moral wisdom of the world's traditions.
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“The problem oftentimes is not with the faith, but with the faithful. This is the most inspiring gathering.”
Kofi Annan · Secretary-General of the United Nations
Millennium World Peace Summit, 2000
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Reflections on faith, leadership, and peace
H.E. Bawa Jain writes regularly on what religious leadership can offer that no government can — how traditions hold together across disagreement, and what it takes to keep the table steady in a fractured age.
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Set a Table
A shaking table does not get steadied by one carpenter in one city — and the only guest who matters is the one you disagree with.
August 14, 2026
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What Only Religious Leaders Can Do
Four instruments no government can issue, revoke, or replace.
August 6, 2026
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Announcement
One World, One Humanity speakers announced
The Council confirms an initial group of faith leaders convening this August in New York for the global summit.
February 2026
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