“A falling tree makes more noise than a growing forest.”

Our generation, Generation Y, grew up surrounded by media fueling a pessimistic, negative and fatalistic environment. Terrorist attacks or the Rohingya massacre both question us every day: is peace just a utopia? Are differences of religions and beliefs necessarily sources of conflict? How can one deal with the growing fear of the Other, of terrorism, or of cultural isolationism?

We did not want to stay passive in front of these major contemporary issues anymore, so we decided to go in search of concrete, simple and efficient solutions already implemented around the world.

We are aware that women and men from all walks of lives and beliefs around the world work every day to fight the fear of the Other and to come up with new methods to make living together easier and peaceful. Our goal is to meet them and spread their ideas to act on a simple observation: peace is being built too quietly today, it is time to make it heard!

On August 1, 2019, we will embark on a world tour that will aim at:

Promoting solutions already founded and implemented by dozens of peacemakers by sharing them with you every week to inspire you to take action;
Speeding up peacebuilding by connecting these different actors to create a mutual support network.

After coming back to France, we will then engage in a series of conferences and talks at schools, universities and in the public sphere to raise awareness about peace and to enable the replication of the best solutions we will have found around the world.

InterFaith Tour aims at providing tools to everyone to become agents of change, solid arguments to fight stereotypes leading to racism, and knowledge to tackle violent extremism. In short, we want to strengthen social cohesion by spreading positive content and encouraging mutual understanding.

The World Tour will begin on August 1, 2019, and will end on April 1, 2020. During these 8 months, we will visit 25 different countries…

...and meet, interview and film more than 300 inspiring peace actors, such as:

Since this trip is motivated by sharing (meetings, good ideas, beautiful landscapes), we will publish contents all along the road:

Our ambition is to make each episode an opportunity to discuss passionately about how to re-use or improve the solutions that are put forward. They will be food for thought for everyone, and a means to keep you updated on our adventure. The initiatives we will meet will also have the possibility to use them to highlight their actions.

Will we speak english? Yes of course.

In front of the camera, we will speak French most of the time, but we will also often use English and Spanish to be understood during our meetings. Every episode will have French and English subtitles, to give access to as many as possible. They will be published on our social media and Youtube accounts so you can easily access them, and for free!

We will also have a blog, live from our tour. You’ll find feature stories about the countries visited, portraits about memorable people, but also a travel journal co-written by the four of us.

As soon as we return, we’ll hit the road again to lead school workshops and public conferences. We will travel through France and a few European cities during two months to meet about 10,000 people.

During our school workshops, we will talk with students about our itinerary (Geography), about the diverse environments of the countries we visited (History), and about the most significant individuals from our adventure (Civic education) to echo their program.

The objectives of the workshops are to:

Inspire young students and encourage them to become agents of change by sharing youth-led peace initiatives;
Foster dialogue to fight communitarianism by highlighting diversity’s potential for good and by deconstructing prejudices;
Demonstrate that the youth can imagine, elaborate, develop and carry out a project with a strong social impact, by sharing with them our experiences as students or young workers.

During our French and European tour, we will also organize open evening conferences. Support us to receive a special invitation to the nearest conference.

We are Abderrahim, Adèle, Floraine and Vincent. We come from Argenteuil, Paris, Marseille and Nantes. We are Muslim, Agnostic, Jewish and Catholic, and we form the fourth season of InterFaith Tour.

The InterFaith Tour project was co-created in 2012 by the youth movement Coexister and the company Sparknews. Before us, 3 teams have already been on a world tour and participated to a successful conference tour.

During the 3 months leading to our departure, and even during the trip, we will continue imagining innovative ways of impacting as many people as possible. For example, we have already thought of:

Developing partnerships with French and foreign media to regularly publish our articles in the press. We already have some good leads thanks to Sparknews’ help!
Making a documentary about our adventure (or rather about the peace actors we meet), thanks to the assistance of an excellent filmmaker and an awesome production company! We’re also well on our way with this one!

We’ll tell you more very soon! You can follow us on social media.

InterFaith Tour - Changing the world with convictions!