Regional Links
Asia Pacific Women, Faith and Development Alliance
The purpose of the Asia Pacific Women, Faith and Development Alliance is to link women’s groups, faith groups and development groups and individual women and men working in the Asia Pacific region in order to facilitate greater progress and more effective work in the effort to achieve gender equality, empowerment and well-being for women and girls and their communities. http://breakthrough2009.com.au/ap/index.html
ASEM Infoboard
ASEM InfoBoard is a platform containing the information on the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). ASEM is an informal process of dialogue and co-operation bringing together the 27 European Union Member States and the European Commission with 16 Asian countries and the ASEAN Secretariat. Visit http://www.aseminfoboard.org/
Religions for Peace ~ Asia-Pacific Youth Network
Asia presents unique opportunities for conflict transformation and peacebuilding in that it is one of our world’s most diverse multi-religious regions. With populations that embrace Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Indigenous spiritual traditions, Sikhism, and Taoism, this diversity offers possibilities to align its strengths in progress towards peace. In each zone of conflict in Asia, there exist religious communities playing needed roles in conflict transformation at various stages of conflict. Religion’s ability to unite communities and bring people together must be tapped if we are to move towards a sustainable future and transcend violent conflict. With sustained efforts, intractable conflicts can be transformed into areas of cooperative coexistence. Visit http://rfpasia.org/
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We, as leaders of faith communities, need to develop a more inclusive view of the religious other, to recognise the humanity of the religious other as a starting point. We need to recognise the essential equality of all human beings regardless of religious beliefs. We need to affirm the mutuality and interdependency of all people... We may need even to extend this and recognise that religious other may, just may, have at least some access to the Truth. We may need to accept that the religious others also adopts more or less the same set of essential universal ethical-moral principles we share; that the religious other has feelings of pain and pleasure just like us; that the religious other has similar expectations about their children and family and the preservation of life, property and security; and that the religious other has the same fears and anxieties about the world and the future, just like us.