IFDIL is an inter-faith initiative involving citizens all across the State of Goa who gather unite to address peace and justice questions in society – local, state wide, and national with a view to bringing faith perspectives to resolving issues of injustice. It works for ethnic and minorities and seeks to empower them to achieve injustice and confront authorities who discriminate against them because of religion and ethnicity.

For the first year of its existence, IFDIL has paid maximum attention to:

1. Religio-Cultural affirmation and pluralism as a matter of celebration. We do not emphasis diversity but instead deal with our common humanity.
2. Dialogue on issues affecting individuals and groups.
3. Lobby and advocate at governmental level for policies that rectify injustices especially religious rights and livelihood rights.
4. Create mass awareness through public rallies and publications on issues of conflict transformation
5. Develop leadership student leadership for work on inter-religious harmony and co-existence for peace with justice.
6. Involve academia and intellectuals in spreading the message of peace and justice through multi-disciplinary teaching and studies.

IFDIL has had many successes in its lobbying with:

• Restoring the livelihood rights of meat traders when their licenses were unjustly revoked.
• Trained 200 students as animators on the subject of Inter-religious  Harmony
• Trained 150 teachers as Peace Animators
• Organized public rallies
• Advocated with the government for the just claims for Muslims to burial spaces and worship spaces.
• Opposed police excesses against Muslims on the basis of prejudice through legal interventions.
• Celebrated religious festivals across the religious divide as a way of promoting understanding.
• Public lectures on combating Communalism