The Olympic truce was a time when conflicts would cease so that athletes could travel safely to compete in the Olympic games.
I went to the London Borough Faiths Network last week and it was suggested that local boroughs could take the concept of the Olympic truce and use it as a banner for initiatives that bring faiths together, resolve conflicts and achieve peaceful outcomes. Rather in the manner of Inter-faith week - each borough would develop responses that work locally. Possible ideas:
- concerted efforts to tackle hate crime and promotion of third party reporting through faith communities
- multi-faith prayer walks around crime hotspots in the borough
- new community safety initiatives
- gun and knife amnesties
- peace festivals
There are many others - and we don't need to pin down the exact activities at this stage.
The Barnet Multi-Faith Forum are interested in exploring this idea and so I'm going along to speak to the group about how this might work.
I am also keen to see which other faith and multi-faith groups in the borough would be keen to participate - and perhaps arrange a meeting for interested parties to get this off the ground.
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