Lejla Hasandedic-Dapo
United Religions Initiative (URI) Europe Liaison Officer, board member of European Interfaith Youth Network (EIYN), Religions for Peace
Sharon Rosen has served as Search for Common Ground’s Global Director of Religious Engagement since 2017. In this role, she oversees the development and project implementation of Search’s global religious engagement strategy.
Sharon first joined Search in 2005 as Senior Advisor to the Jerusalem office and continued as the office’s Co-Director for nine years before assuming her current role. Prior to Search, she co-founded and directed Education for Life, an international non-governmental organization 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.
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. In her time at Search, she co-created and leads the Universal Code of Conduct on Holy Sites initiative and has managed multiple projects on religion, development, health, and media. She was also senior editor of the Common Ground News Service – Middle East. Additionally, her chapter, “The Importance of Interfaith Cooperation for the Protection of Jerusalem’s Holy Sites,” was published in Sacred Space in Israel and Palestine (Routledge 2012).
Originally from London, England, Sharon holds a B.A. and a Masters from Hebrew University, Jerusalem. She speaks English and Hebrew.
United Religions Initiative (URI) Europe Liaison Officer, board member of European Interfaith Youth Network (EIYN), Religions for Peace
Member executive board, Religions for Peace Italy
Chairperson, RfP European Women of Faith Network
Community Engagement Senior Coordinator, Adyan Foundation
Deputy Coordinator, International Youth Committee
Junior Researcher, Hartford Seminary-Interreligious Relations
Member, International Youth Committee
Archbishop of Abuja, Archdiocese of Abuja
Honorary President, Religions for Peace
Youth Representative, Ghana Conference of Religions for Peace
Member, International Youth Committee
Founding Director and President, Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies, Germany
President, Divine Shakti Foundation
Secretary-General, Global Interfaith WASH Alliance
Professor of Islamic Studies and Education, George-August University Göttingen
Director General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO)
Director for Cultural Relations Policy and Deputy Head of the Directorate-General for Culture and Communication at the Federal Foreign Office
Chief of Cabinet and Spokesperson to the High Representative for the United Nations Alliance of Civilization (UNAOC)
Director, Argao Center for Psychological Services
Coordinator, Religions for Peace International Youth Committee
President, Kina8at Together
Elder from the Anicinape (Algonquin) tradition
Metropolitan of France, Ecumenical Patriarchate Religions for Peace
Professor of Spiritual Care at the Graduate School of Applied Religious Studies
Chairmanship of the Foundation Peace Dialogue of the World Religions and Civil Society
Inter-Religious Council of Peru – Religions for Peace, Interfaith Rainforest Initiative
Bishop Emeritus President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
Honorary President, Religions for Peace
Professor of Religion, St. Olaf College
Co-President, Religions for Peace
UN Special Rapporteur on Cultural Rights
Homer G. Angelo & Ann Berryhill Endowed Chair & Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis
School of Law
International Director, Department of Interreligious Affairs in the American Jewish Committee
Co-President, Religions for Peace
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Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala Primate of the Church of Sweden
Co-Presiden, Religions for Peace
Former Chairperson, Evangelical Church of Germany
Co-President, Religions for Peace
Nun of the Daughters of Mother Mary of Mercy; Co-Chair Nigerian & African Women of Faith Network
Executive Director Cardinal Onaiyekan Foundation for Peace (COFP)
Chair, Religions for Peace International Women’s Coordinating Committee
Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant High Commissioner for Protection
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Minister of State for International Cultural Policy at the Foreign Office, Germany
President-Designate, Rissho Kosei-Kai, Co-Moderator, Religions for Peace, Buddhist, Japan