36th IARF Congress, Day 3: Faith-Based Encounters and Re-Humanizing the Other by Rabbi Bob Carroll

Description

We will discuss the IEA’s unique methodology, which involved using religious ideas to establish common values and simultaneously create a safe space for disagreement and individual identity. We’ll present our Guidelines for Fair & Respectful Dialog, give some examples of how our encounters have brought people together and enabled them to tear down walls of prejudice, and also discuss how we successfully recruit participants from a very wide political and religious (or not) slice of the populations of each faith. Lastly, we’ll talk about what we have learned does _not_ work.