Leaders of different religions participated in the summit: Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Sikhism, Taoismyodra, Trianism, Vaisnavism (represented by Iskcon and the Vrinda Society) and Bahai. Leaders from these different faiths introduced many topics at the summit. The main aim of the meeting was to bring all the religions together to cooperate and join hands to bring peace and harmony to the world.

Iskcon GBC member Srila Bhakti Swarup Damodar Maharaj was one of the official delegates among the organizers. The main topics of the summit were as follows:

Sunday the 7th of December:
• The Role of Women in Building a Culture of Peace.
• The Role of Youth in Building a Culture of Peace.
• Sharing Stories of Inter-faith Solidarity (In this exchange of interfaith solidarity, there was discussion about how to do service through education, social work, seva in practice and stories of inter-faith solidarity.)
• Workshop on Building a Culture of Peace Through Inter-faith Co-operation (In this workshop there was a discussion about the indigenous traditions of South America. There was also a talk about the United Religious Initiative and the Temple of Understanding.)

Monday the 8th of December:
Importance of Inter-religious Dialogue for promoting Culture of Peace,

Tuesday 9th of December:
Promoting Culture of Peace through Social Justice and Empowerment. (Under this topic there were sub topics about globalization, gender equity, environment and ecology, enter-faith education, eoverty elimination and empowerment of Dalits.)

Wednesday 10th of December:
A visit to the religious sights.

(Group 1 went to Buddha Temple, Laxmi Narayan Temple, Synagogue, Bahai Temple and Iskcon Temple.
Group II went to Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bhai Vir Singh Sahitya Sadan, Ramakrishna Mission, Jain Temple
and Gurudvara Shisha Ganj.)

The essence of the whole summit was that the practice of religion does not create problems related to the environment, ecology, poverty and so on. Most of the problems are because of selfishness, egoism, poor communication and not having a good relationship and understanding about others and fighting for regional self- interests against other groups.

It was also mentioned that all religions talk about peace and harmony, non violence, kindness, fraternity, mercifulness etc. All people have a religion, but many members generally start fighting and making conflicts within their practice.

During the inaugural ceremony of the Summit, his excellency the President of India Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam recited words from Srimad Bhagavatam and spoke about the values of the Vaisnava Practice. He stressed brahmacari life for the benefit of human values and to control the senses. He said that when people have no control over their senses and want to gratify them and are not able to do so, then they become angry and aggressive and then conflicts arise. The honourable president also spoke about being merciful not only to human beings but also to animals, and he mentioned the values of vegetarianism.

On the last day of the meeting there was a grand celebration in the Gandhi Smriti Park. His Holiness, The Dalai Lama was the chief guest of the program. The Dalai Lama said that the whole problem on the world is people looking for faults in others instead of looking for faults within themselves. If people start looking for faults within themselves and try to make themselves better, then there will be no more problems in the world.

Finally the meeting ended with the conclusion that to create harmony and solidarity between the inter-religious groups, people should become educated. Especially the young generation should take the responsibility and work together to bring solidarity and harmony to the world.
At the Summit, different religious groups performed their musical concerts. The Sikhs were the main group to present their program. The organizer was Dr. Mohinder Singh, a sikh person. There was a short performance of all religious prayers daily. The organizers managed everything very nicely for the participants. The participants were very friendly and respectful to each other. People shared their thoughts and exchanged addresses and literature.

WVA representatives Swami B.V. Sridhar and Lalita Madhava Prabhu presented the WVA magazine and CD to all the participants.

Altogether the Summit was a wonderful occasion.