The Buddhist-Muslim dialogue series was initiated to foster a new global communication on how Buddhism and Islam can respond together to the challenges created by the political, religious, economic and cultural crisis facing the world in the 21st century. The dialogue's goals are to create a partnership between Buddhist and Muslim communities in order to face these challenges on a peaceful basis of cooperation and friendship.

This year, the dialogue will take place at United Nations Headquarters on September 3rd and 4th. The topic is Towards a Global Family: Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The first dialogue took place at Columbia University in New York City in March 2002, followed by dialogues in Kuala-Lumpur in May, and in Jakarta in July. Subsequent to this series of Dialogues, a Muslim and Buddhist Dialogue Symposium was held in Morocco in 2005, and a Buddhist-Muslim Dialogue Conference was held in China in 2006.

One of the highlights of this series was the Global Family for Love and Peace co-sponsored Buddhist-Muslim Dialogue Conference On Global Ethics and Good Governance at UNESCO headquarters in Paris from May 5-7 2003. The Conference was co-organized by the Museum of World Religions and the Elijah School for the Study of Wisdom in World Religions. The Paris UNESCO was designed to embrace the theme of the 1994 UNESCO "Declaration on the Role of Religion in the Promotion of a Culture of Peace". The conference addressed four major topics:

1) Global Ethics and Good Governance.

2) Religious Responses to Violence.

3) Interfaith and Peace Education.

4) Community Partnership Building.

For more information about our dialogues please contact us at: laurence@gflp.org