Photo Gallery: 2024 Working Retreat at Rose Castle Foundation
Tanenbaum Peacemakers in Action Group Photo
Dear Friends,
As I reflect on my time with the Peacemakers in Action Network at Rose Castle last month for the Working Retreat, I dig deeper into the profound healing space that the Peacemakers created together.
The Peacemakers are pillars of their communities, and, in times of conflict, crisis, and devastation, those communities look to them for strength, guidance, and healing. But, who holds that space for the Peacemakers? We witnessed one of the answers at the Working Retreat: They do – together. Their collective solidarity resonated through the castle walls as they shared peacebuilding tools, techniques, stories, fears, and tears. Friar Ivo said it best:
“During this Peacemakers in Action Working Retreat in my spirit was created a magic, a real spell, lasting while traveling back to Bosnia, and it will last, I hope not only in me. Thank you all because you created it, as my choir Pontanima has been creating it with music. With love.”
In friendship and solidarity, as modeled by the Peacemakers in Action,
Rev. Mark Fowler, CEO, Tanenbaum
(Photos: Make Beautiful)
Peacemakers in Action Network Working Retreat
Retreat welcoming session
Tanenbaum Peacemakers Dr. Sarah AK Ahmed, Dishani Jayaweera, Friar Ivo Markovic, and Azhar Hussain listen during a session
Peacemaker Imam Ashafa presents
Antti Pentikäinen, Mary Hoch Center for Reconciliation Director and Tanenbaum Advisory Board Member with Peacemaker, Azhar Hussain
Peacemaker Rev. Bill Lowrey in conversation
Peacemaker James Lual Atak speaks with Peacemaker Yeny Gloribel Nolasco Quijada
Working retreat day four
Walk and talk between Peacemakers Azhar Hussain and Rev. Bill Lowrey
Tanenbaum Peacemakers in Action Group Photo
Peacemakers in Action with Tanenbaum Assistant Director of Peacebuilding Program, Janie Dumbleton, Senior Network Coordinator, Elie Khoury, and Tanenbaum CEO, Rev. Mark Fowler at Rose Castle Foundation
Tanenbaum CEO Rev. Mark Fowler addresses the room
Rose Castle Foundation Programme Manager, Hannah Larn, speaks with Peacemaker Imam Ashafa
Peacemakers Yeny Gloribel Nolasco Quijada and Pastor James Wuye
Peacemakers Yeny Gloribel Nolasco Quijada and Pastor James Wuye enjoy a walk and talk in the Rose Castle garden
Peacemakers Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge and Pastor James Wuye
Peacemakers Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge and Pastor James Wuye enjoy a walk and talk in the Rose Castle gardens
Peacemakers James Lual Atak, Jacky Manuputty, and Imam Ashafa
Peacemakers James Lual Atak and Yeny Gloribel Nolasco Quijada discuss during a walk and talk
Peacemakers Dr. Sarah AK Ahmed and Rev. Bill Lowrey embrace during a walk and talk
Peacemakers dinner
Peacemakers attend a service at the Rose Castle Foundation Chapel
Peacemaker Imam Ashafa walks with Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner from Wenger-Trayner consulting
Peacemaker Dr. Sarah AK Ahmed shares during a session
Peacemaker Dr. Sarah AK Ahmed and Canon Sarah Snyder, Rose Castle Foundation Founding Director
Peacemaker Dishani Jayaweera addresses the room
Peacemakers Pastor James Wuye and Imam Ashafa with Antti Pentikäinen, Mary Hoch Center for Reconciliation Director and Tanenbaum Advisory Board Member
Antti Pentikäinen, Mary Hoch Center for Reconciliation Director and Tanenbaum Advisory Board Member
Peacemaker Dishani Jayaweera and Kawther Alkholy
Peacemakers Hind Kabawat and Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge
Antti Pentikäinen, Mary Hoch Center for Reconciliation Director and Tanenbaum Advisory Board Member speaks with Peacemaker Dr. Sarah AK Ahmed
The Rose Castle
Peacemaker Dishani Jayaweera at Hadrian’s Wall
Peacemakers at Hadrian’s Wall
Peacemakers applaud Tanenbaum Peacebuilding team during farewell dinner
Prince Michael of Kent, Tanenbaum CEO Rev. Mark Fowler, and Peacemakers Hind Kabawat and Dr. Sarah AK Ahmed at Chatham House
Peacemakers Friar Ivo Markovic, Hind Kabawat, Dr. Sarah AK Ahmed, James Lual Atak, and Jacky Manuputty lead a panel at Chatham House