Mr. Bawa Jain is a leader in the interfaith movement, creating and participating in global events that unite religious leaders from diverse faith traditions to address critical issues concerning the peace process. He worked with the office of the United Nations Secretary-General to organize the Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders that opened at the United Nations in August 2000. He serves as Secretary-General of the Summit, which is continuing its efforts to identify ways that the worldwide religious and spiritual communities can work together as interfaith allies with the United Nations on specific peace, poverty and environment initiatives.
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Since the United Nations was created, there has always been a common goal, which is to achieve World Peace. But the Summit itself was created on August 1997, when Secretary-General of the United Nations Mr. Kofi Annan met with CNN President Ted Turner, and both realized that to the better achievement of World Peace, all the spiritual leaders from all around the world should get together, and sign a commitment to peace. We wanted basically, not only to bring religions together, but also races and cultures, all united for common causes: environment, poverty, conflicts, and more.