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Abe Quadan

Abe is a council member of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS) and delivers Mediation Skills Workshops within the CPACS postgraduate program. He is an Executive Member of the Sydney Peace Foundation and Secretary of the Australian Arabic Palestinian Support Association Inc. (AAPSA). Abe specialises in the area of early identification of conflict and developing prevention/management strategies.

Elizabeth Raine

Elizabeth Squires is a Uniting Church minister and a teacher at the Uniting Church theological seminary - who has a wicked sense of humour. She is involved in dialogue with the Jewish community and is a devotee of ancient Jewish music.

Vera Ranki 

Award-winning author and academic Dr Vera Ranki is Founding Director of the Examined Life Institute. Vera provides courses, individual lectures, talks and workshops on practical philosophy. Her earlier book, 'The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion' (Allen & Unwin), was Outstanding Academic Book in the US. Currently she is writing a book on the Examined Life.

Michelle Rojas

Michelle Rojas began her work at StandWithUs in the spring of 2005 in Israel, while studying at Hebrew University. After training in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs ambassadors course, she returned to New York as the StandWithUs Community Outreach Coordinator. Michelle made aliyah in July 2007, joining the StandWithUs international team as Diaspora Education Director.

Gregory Rose

Gregory Rose is an international lawyer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Wollongong. His research interests are the environment and counter-terrorism. He has also worked for the United Nations, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the London-based Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development.

Anna Rosenbaum 

Anna Rosenbaum is a PhD student in the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, University of Sydney. Her dissertation deals with the history of Czechoslovak Jews in Australia in the year prior to and after the outbreak of the Second World War. In addition to her interest in history, Anna is a linguist and she has a keen interest in political science and the fine arts.

Suzanne Rutland

Suzanne D. Rutland (MA (Hons), PhD, Dip Ed, OAM) is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney. She has published widely on Australian Jewish history, edits the Sydney edition of the 'AJHS Journal' and writes on the Shoah and Israel. In January 2008 she received the Medal of the Order of Australia for services to higher Jewish education and interfaith dialogue.

Paulus Ryanto 

Paulus has a BA (Phil), MA (Theol), MA (Phil) and Dr (Phil). He taught philosophy and theology for some 20 years then, pursuing further studies in philosophy, he specialised in the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), especially his last writings - around 1934-1937 - in the context of the situation for a Jewish scholar in the German university/academy at that time.