2/7-9/1994
The ACF and the Ecumenical Patriarchate, convened a Conference on Peace and Tolerance in Istanbul to rally religious leaders to help bring about an end to the conflict in the Balkans and to deal with the scourge of nationalism and ethnic conflict in the Caucuses. Muslim, Jewish and Christian leaders adopted and signed the Bosphorus Declaration which rejected “any attempt to corrupt the basic tenets of our faith by means of false interpretation and unchecked nationalism”.