(23) Finding common ground through feminine traits, with Sharon Rosen
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Today I’m honoured to welcome Sharon Rosen, a leader in interfaith peace
building in Israel and around the world. Sharon served as Search for Common
Ground’s Global Director of Religious Engagement from 2017 until recently. She
also co-founded and directed Education for Life, an NGO that provides tools for
the development and wellbeing of children within state educational systems. She
was also a faculty member at the Jerusalem Center for Near East Studies,
teaching courses on Bible, gender, and contemporary relevance.
From her father’s survival as a prisoner of war and how that projected the family
into Israel as some of the first olim, to the challenge of seeking female leaders to
connect and build bridges with in the Muslim world, this conversation is really
wide-ranging.
Sharon is an expert on designing and implementing interreligious programming
that builds collaboration across religions and promotes peace. She is also an
experienced facilitator in conflict resolution and strategic planning. Her advice for
women and for the world, to amplify feminine traits of caring, compassion, mediation
and dialogue over dominance, strength, assertiveness and competition, demonstrates the
decades of experience it comes from.
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