The Memory Bank project is an interreligious and intercultural endeavour currently in its test phase, supported by the Project on Religion and Ethics in the Making of War and Peace.

The Memory Bank project aims:

• To gather stories from communities around the world in which interreligious and intercultural cooperation has been a part of ordinary social life, especially where conflict has made such cooperation difficult.
• To share these experiences with partners and with a wider public interested in how community engagement and cooperation.
• To enable respondents to share their experience in the format that protects their security and suits their needs.
• To challenge narratives that suggest peace and cooperation between ethnic and religious communities is idealistic, impossible or abnormal.
• To empower those ordinary community members who know the benefits and challenges of cross-communal cooperation, overlooked in media coverage and with little political/social leverage to express their experience of multifaith and intercultural community, life and culture.
• To work with grassroots organizations and initiatives internationally.
• To work with accountability to partners and to communities experiencing conflict, and to do no harm in the communities we engage with.

The project is supervised by Dr. George R. Wilkes, the Director of the Religion and Ethics in the Making of War and Peace Project, currently also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the School of Security Studies, Kings College London, and Sohaib Ashraf, masters student at the University of Exeter Applied Social Data Science MSc.