Sri Sri has launched a range of humanitarian and social initiatives to promote peace and well-being at various levels:

• at the individual level, through self development and stress elimination programs for adults, youth and children;
• at the community level, through socioeconomic development programs for poor communities, women’s empowerment initiatives and programs to tackle gang violence and drug and alcohol addiction among youth; and
• at the global level, through peace initiatives in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Kashmir, Kosovo, Pakistan.

Peace initiatives:
Sri Sri has launched a number of peace initiatives to end violent conflict, combat rising fundamentalism and provide trauma relief to victims of conflict.  He has inspired thousands of volunteers to work for world peace, and has traveled extensively to strife-torn areas to heal the divisions among warring groups and calm aggressive minds. Successfully bringing together antagonistic groups in areas such as Sri Lanka, Kashmir and Bihar, India, he has inspired many groups to shun the path of violence and adopt peaceful means of resolving conflicts.
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Interfaith Harmony:
In the face of rising fundamentalism and growing ethnic and religious tensions, Sri Sri has dedicated himself to promoting harmony betweenpeople of different faiths. Sri Sri has said that in today’s globalizing world, we also need to globalize wisdom.  He has played an active role in organizing and promoting a number of interfaith dialogues, including the 2006 Brussels conference between Rabbis and Imams, June 2007 Interfaith Summit in Bali Indonesia. Sri Sri has been bestowed many honors for promoting dialogue and harmony among faiths, including Dara Shikoh Award for National Harmony and Mahavir-Mahatma Award for Peace.
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Post-conflict Trauma Relief:
Sri Sri’s programs have helped heal post-traumatic stress disorder in thousands of individuals in theaftermath of war. They have helped individuals transcend negative emotions of fear, hate and anger, which often hamper the peaceful resolution of disputes. Trauma relief programs have been conducted in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Kashmir, Kosovo, Lebanon, Russia and Sri Lanka.
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