In every conflict there comes a time for true reconciliation
Al Amana International (AAI) enables transformative reconciliation by making best practices available, training new leaders and supporting ongoing reconciliation processes world-wide.
AAI accomplishes this by creating support structures with leading universities to serve practitioners, communities and states.
The results are that individuals experience healing, communities transform their relationships and states sustain peace.
AAI convenes other leading centers and practitioners throughout the US and the world that support reconciliation.
The Mary Hoch Center for Reconciliation (MHCR) at the George Mason University School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (S-CAR) joins a vibrant scholarship and practitioner community.
At S-CAR, theory, research, and practice are integrated, informing each other and expanding the field of conflict resolution and peace studies.
MHCR convenes scholars and practitioners to lead research, provide support and develop ongoing trainings to insider reconcilers working in post-war contexts globally as well as in the US.
Al Amana Centre, located in the Sultanate of Oman, facilitates dialogue and reconciliation.
Al Amana Centre builds trust and peace between Christians and Muslims through interfaith encounters, intercultural immersion, and dialogue facilitation.
The Centre hosts and accompanies groups for peace building and teaches that face-to-face interactions and dialogue are some of the best ways to help people correct misunderstandings about each other and false cultural stereotypes.
Rose Castle Foundation is the leading center for training in reconciliation in the United Kingdom.
The Rose Castle Foundation creates hospitable spaces where those in profound conflict can meet face-to-face. Based in the north of England, Rose Castle was once was a place of conflict and defense, but is now a symbol of peace and hospitality.
The Foundation exists to equip a new generation of faith leaders to be reconcilers in their communities. Training through practical peace-making and mediation strategies, Rose Castle prepares leaders to transform conflicts within and between faith communities, institutions and nations.
Canon Sarah Snyder, Antti Pentikainen, Jim Hoch
Our Director Antti Pentikainen (center) is among the world’s leading practitioners of reconciliation with two decades of collaboration with the United Nations in conflict zones such as Somalia, Libya, South Sudan, as well as countries in the Middle East and Asia.
With him is Jim Hoch, president of the board of directors, and co-founder
of the Mary Hoch Center for Reconciliation and Canon Sarah Snyder,
the founder of Rose Castle Foundation.