Paul Andrews was on the founding staff of the United Religions Initiative. He managed operations for URI’s first three Global Summit Conferences and helped organize URI’s 72 Hours project – 300 simultaneous local initiatives in 68 countries during the Millennium Weekend, December 30th, 1999 through January 1st, 2000.
During that time he also was the Executive Producer of Improbable Pairs, two short documentaries about pairs of people who made peace in the face of extraordinary odds. These two films, now up on You Tube (“Improbable Pairs”), have been used to trigger deep conversations about reconciliation in a wide variety of settings: in prisons – between the widows of Nepali police officers and the widows of Maoist fighters in Nepal – and by the United Nations at gatherings for child soldiers.
Paul was also the founding director of Slavyanka Russian Chorus. Founded during the latter part of the Cold War, the Chorus has been active in numerous American-Russian cross-cultural initiatives and has toured Russia and Eastern Europe five times as goodwill ambassadors.