Year: 2025 | Faculty: FIP
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Source metadata: PKM: Building Peace through Dialogue: A Youth Interfaith Camp for Religious Understanding and Inclusion | Tim: Prof. Nina Nurmila, Uswatun Hasanah, Nanik Yuliyanti

Religious understanding is not built only through textbooks. It is also formed through encounter, conversation, and the willingness to listen to people from different backgrounds. UIII’s Youth Interfaith Camp for Religious Understanding and Inclusion created a space where young people could learn peace through direct dialogue.

The Faculty of Education team approached interfaith engagement as a form of youth empowerment. In diverse societies, young people need opportunities to ask questions, challenge stereotypes, and understand how religious identity can coexist with citizenship, friendship, and shared public responsibility. A camp format is especially valuable because learning continues beyond formal sessions into meals, group activities, and informal exchanges.

The project matters because intolerance often grows where communities remain distant from one another. When young people meet, share stories, and work together, difference becomes less abstract. They begin to see one another not as representatives of categories, but as people with hopes, concerns, and moral commitments.

For UIII, this initiative fits a broader peacebuilding and inclusion agenda. It demonstrates how education can help prevent polarization by cultivating habits of dialogue and respect early in life.

A feature story can focus on the camp experience: the first meeting, moments of hesitation, shared activities, and reflections after dialogue. Final publication should include participant diversity, partner institutions, and safeguarding procedures. The central message is that interfaith peace is built when young people are trusted to encounter difference openly, honestly, and humanely.