Interfaith meeting of female leaders at UN held to promote peace [Video]

As war wages from Ukraine to the Middle East, one Iranian-American woman refuses to allow the inevitable strife of conflict stop her from building bridges of peace.

Shirin Taber, founder of Empower Women Media and the Abraham Women’s Alliance, put on an event at the United Nations in New York, bringing together interfaith leaders of Arab, Jewish, Muslim and Christian backgrounds to dialogue with one another and find common ground for peace. 

Taber is a longtime advocate for women led reconciliation.

“As we know, women are often the first responders to conflict, and we knew that if we could get women in the room together, mothers, sisters, daughters, that we could actually activate peace and re-ignite the Abraham Accords,” Taber explained. 

From the painful dialogue around the Israel-Gaza conflict, to the ongoing hate crimes affecting nearly every people group in the United States, the gathering included panels and experiential presentations. 

One such presentation included a poem written and presented …