Jane Blanchard interviews Andrea
“Andy” Blanch, PhD. Andy
is the president and director of the Center for Religious Tolerance
(CRT), a non-profit organization devoted to building interfaith
tolerance and sustainable peace. Her goal is to shape a peaceful and
sustainable future, with an emphasis on the role of women. She has
worked for over 30 years as a social change agent. She was the founding
director of the USF Collaborative on Conflict Management in Mental
Health and the National Trauma Consortium and was a founding member of
the Abrahamic Reunion, a group of religious and lay leaders working for
peace in the Middle East.. She has done grassroots organizing in the
Balkans and the Middle East She works locally and internationally to
promote women in leadership and to help groups and organizations
resolve conflict, heal embedded social and historical trauma, and
create conditions for sustainable peace. Dr. Blanch is a 2009
Women
Living Religion Fellow in the Yale program on Women, Religion, and
Globalization.
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