The Most Important in Brief

Dharma Alliance is a tax-exempt, non-profit organization based in Geneva that seeks to protect, preserve, and promote Dharma-based perspectives and practices across the world. ‘Dharma’ in Sanskrit comes from the root ‘dhri’ meaning ‘to sustain’, and refers to the spiritual, ethical and natural principles that uphold the universe. Although more than 2 billion people across the world are rooted in these traditions, Dharma-based approaches are not adequately reflected in global dialogues and actions on peace and development. Dharma Alliance seeks to address this by bringing Dharma-based perspectives – premised as they are on harmony, mutual respect, and the inter-connectedness of all life – to the center of global institutions, dialogues and processes.

1. Purpose

   The Association is created to: Protect, preserve and promote Dharma-based spiritual and intellectual traditions with respect to global dialogues and actions on peace and development. In this context, Dharma-based spiritual and intellectual traditions include but are not limited to Buddhist, Hindu, Jain and Sikh traditions. The Association seeks to establish itself as a global knowledge source and advocacy platform for promoting Dharma-based approaches on global issues across all major institutions, systems, policies, and tools of international governance. The Association has no profit purposes.

2. The Most Important in Brief

   Dharma Alliance is a tax-exempt, non-profit organization based in Geneva that seeks to protect, preserve, and promote Dharma-based perspectives and practices across the world. ‘Dharma’ in Sanskrit comes from the root ‘dhri’ meaning ‘to sustain’, and refers to the spiritual, ethical and natural principles that uphold the universe. Although more than 2 billion people across the world are rooted in these traditions, Dharma-based approaches are not adequately reflected in global dialogues and actions on peace and development. Dharma Alliance seeks to address this by bringing Dharma-based perspectives – premised as they are on harmony, mutual respect, and the inter-connectedness of all life – to the center of global institutions, dialogues and processes.

3. Goals

   Be a major global platform and knowledge source for protecting, strengthening, articulating, and propagating Dharmic approaches across institutions, systems, policies and tools of global governance across major international themes including conflict avoidance and resolution, trade, development, human rights, environment and sustainable development goals (SDGs) Create tools to protect Dharmic traditions and mainstream Dharmic approaches in the global narrative Be a global repository of knowledge on Dharmic cultures, languages, texts, histories and approaches, and make Dharmic knowledge widely accessible through appropriate languages, forms and content

4. Principles

   Dharma Alliance promotes the principles of Dharma – harmony, mutual respect, shared prosperity and the inter-connectedness of all life – in international dialogues, policies, processes and norms.

5. Measures

   Develop content and knowledge on Dharma-based approaches to peace and development, including sustainable development goals (SDGs) and other current and future global frameworks; Dialogue with institutions of global governance, such as the United Nations, on an ongoing basis, and present Dharma-based perspectives on peace and development, including the SDGs, and other current and future global frameworks Organize conferences, events and other types of meetings to advance its purposes

6. Financing

   Individual donations and institutional grants

Area of Impact

• Africa
• Asia
• Europe
• North America
• Oceania
• South America
• Developing countries
• Abroad, general