A/HRC/6/6 page 19 held in Strasbourg in October 1997. The task of ECRI is to combat racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and intolerance at the level of greater Europe and from the perspective of the protection of human rights. In the third Summit held in Warsaw on 17 May 2005, the Heads of State and Government of the member States of the Council of Europe adopted the Warsaw Declaration, in which they strongly condemned all forms of intolerance and discrimination, in particular those based on sex, race and religion, including anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, and affirmed their determination to further develop, within the Council of Europe, rules and effective machinery to prevent and eradicate them. 69. In recent years, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has held several conferences on promoting tolerance and non-discrimination, combating anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and Christianophobia and tackling hate speech on the Internet. In December 2004, the OSCE chairman appointed three Personal Representatives to promote greater tolerance and combat racism, xenophobia and discrimination across the OSCE region: Ambassador Ömür Orhun of Turkey, Personal Representative on combating intolerance and discrimination against Muslims; Gert Weisskirchen of Germany, Personal Representative on combating anti-Semitism; and Anastasia Crickley of Ireland, Personal Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, also focusing on intolerance and discrimination against Christians and members of other religions. Among other initiatives put in place by OSCE, the Special Rapporteur welcomes the Conference held on 6 June 2007 in Bucharest on “Combating Discrimination and Promoting Mutual Respect and Understanding” as a follow-up to the OSCE “Conference on Anti-Semitism and Other Forms of Intolerance” which was held in Cordoba, Spain on 7-8 June 2005. The Special Rapporteur has constantly been invited by the Director of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Ambassador Christian Strohal, to actively participate in these conferences, thus being given the opportunity to share his findings and observations. 70. Apart from large-scale projects carried out by civil society, some local and grassroots initiatives also exemplify efforts to fight religious discrimination. The Nairobi-based Inter-Faith Action for Peace in Africa is a civil society initiative developed by a number of religious communities and institutions, including the Lutheran World Federation, to promote tolerance and conflict resolution in plural communities in Africa. A number of programmes are being developed in countries recovering from civil war, including Liberia, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, the Sudan and Uganda. The activities developed by this joint action highlight the importance of promoting a culture of peace and inter-religious dialogue as a key step in overcoming conflict and promote development in the region. 71. In 2000, an Anglican priest in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Donald Reeves, created a non-governmental organization (NGO) called The Soul of Europe to promote mutual understanding between Islam and Christianity. A number of relevant projects have been organized, including a meeting of community leaders from Banja Luka, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which took place in Coventry Cathedral in London in September 2001. This NGO has been developing reconciliation tasks in several regions in Bosnia. Other initiatives it conducted include an Islamic-Christian dialogue involving 60 European organizations in the European Parliament in Brussels in December 2003 and a meeting for reconciliation in Lebanon which took place in May 2004.