Most such conferences end up by adopting resolutions that all religions essentially stand for similar values, and that communities should live in harmony with each other. They do not address issues of exploitation, the basic cause of conflicts, and how positive forces can be generated to deal with it.
Religion is the discipline dealing with personal and societal ethics.
Religion has, however, been often responsible for committing political aggression on other cultures, creating social and ethnic conflicts, and dividing society. Because of the abuse of religion for political purposes, the West evolved the concept of secularism as separation of the church from the state. The increase in social and ethnic conflicts witnessed during the twentieth century has however led to an attitude amongst the educated of disrespect, often hatred, toward religion. Physics is the discipline of physical sciences. It has served the society well, but has also been responsible for creating devices for mass destruction.