Summit of Religious Youth Leaders

International religious and civil society youth leaders will join their Asian counterparts (a continent confronted with proliferation of nuclear weapons) at the Religions for Peace Summit of Religious Youth Leaders on Disarmament for Shared Security, in Kathmandu, Nepal on 10-11 July 2009. 

The summit will deliberate on the current challenges related to nuclear and conventional weapons and develop a strategy for multi-religious advocacy and action for disarmament and shared security in Asia and beyond.  The action plan to be adopted will include multi-religious advocacy at national, regional and international levels and grassroots mobilization of religious communities.  

Religious youth leaders from around the world will discuss major challenges to shared security and develop action plans on nuclear disarmament, abolition of landmines and cluster munitions, militarization and its relation to terrorism and the misuse of religion in support of violence.  Furthermore, the Religions for Peace Global Youth Network will launch a campaign on reducing military expenditures to advance UN Millennium Development Goals as part of a global youth-led disarmament campaign.

For more information on this summit have a look at the most recent press release by Religion for Peace:  http://www.wcrp.org/news/press/singapore08-30-07  

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