ABOUT URIS PROFILE
The United Religions Initiative (URIS) is a network of community-led groups, circles of peace, NGO’s, CSOs and Social workers work in across the Federal Republic of Somalia member states and around the region of somali speaking society, is a gathering group of people from different cultures from within their faiths and tradition to work side-by-side for a common cause.
The purpose of the United Religions Initiative of Somalia (URIS) is to promote enduring, daily interfaith cooperation, human rights forums, cultivate academic gatherings to end religiously motivated violence, and to create cultures of peace, justice, and healing for the nation and all living beings.
The United Religions Initiatives of Somalia (URIS) is a national nonprofit, humanitarian and development network of NGOs founded in Nairobi, Kenya, during Somalia Civil Society a meeting was organized in Kenya for 25 Somalia Civil Societies from Monday the 13th of December to Thursday the 17th of December 2009.
The aim of the URIS is to advance useful knowledge of the nation and its diverse communities, bringing a better understanding of local realities to bear on social and political action. The URIS works with institutions in the region to develop and implement long-term programmes that combine action-oriented research with humanitarian and human rights education and public information.
In humanitarian responses, we follow the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability (CHS), internationally recognised standards which place communities and people affected by crisis at the centre of humanitarian action, and guide our emergency response work. It is a voluntary and measurable standard.
Vision
To be the resilient communities benefit from opportunities for greater health and wellbeing, and URIS plays a crucial role in pulling those threads together to help build community resilience and strengthen healthcare and humanitarian actors’ systems.
Mission
Our work is guided by the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence.
Background
We are committed to holding ourselves accountable for the promises we make to our supporters, partners, staff, and most of all, CSOs/NGOs. This means looking back at our commitments, celebrating our successes and learning from any mistakes in order to do more and do better.
The current Somalia civil society organizations, networks and NGOs in Somalia play a vital role in delivering aid and addressing various needs, but also face challenges related to coordination, accountability, and operating in a complex environment. As result of that, URIS needs to cultivate peace cultures via community circling meetings of peace talks.
To implement the above stated aims URIS needs to facilitate the community needs through all cultures of peace as defined by the United Nations, the Culture of Peace is a set of values, attitudes, modes of behaviour and ways of life that reject violence and prevent conflicts by tackling their root causes to solve problems through dialogue and negotiation among individuals, groups and nations who are a member of the UN and beyond. URIS accepted, endorsed and decided to work under the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace in which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on September 13, 1999. This occurred after ten months of negotiations in the context of preparations for the International Year for the Culture of Peace. UN resolution A/53/243.
Vision
To be the resilient communities benefit from opportunities for greater health and wellbeing, and URIS plays a crucial role in pulling those threads together to help build community resilience and strengthen healthcare and humanitarian actors’ systems.
Mission
Our work is guided by the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence.
Background
We are committed to holding ourselves accountable for the promises we make to our supporters, partners, staff, and most of all, CSOs/NGOs. This means looking back at our commitments, celebrating our successes and learning from any mistakes in order to do more and do better.
