Canon Sarah Snyder

Sarah has over thirty years of experience working with communities and senior religious figures around the world to promote faith-based ways of finding peace and rebuilding relationships.

"After 30 years of working with communities and faith leaders, I’ve learned that true peace is not found in shallow consensus. It is forged through deep encounters across difference, and a better quality of disagreement." ~ Canon Sarah Snyder

A Cambridge University theologian specialising in Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations, and a trained mediator, Canon Sarah is also the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Special Adviser for Reconciliation programmes and resources. She has previously worked as the Director of Partnerships at Religions for Peace International, and directed conflict schools for the Cambridge Interfaith Programme at the University of Cambridge.

Her early career as a documentary producer for BBC Television included time spent living and working with the Tuareg nomads in the Sahara Desert, which sparked her fascination with interfaith work and the power of hospitality. She since founded Rose Castle Foundation as a global network that equips reconcilers to cross divides and transform conflict.

Pedagogy

We don't just deliver training — we form reconcilers. The Rose Way combines spiritual depth with practical tools, nurturing both head and heart. Designed for scalability, our programmes, resources, and facilitation methods can be delivered by anyone, anywhere, cultivating habits that transform individuals and communities long after the programme ends.

Place

Our 800-year-old castle on the English-Scottish border embodies our mission. The former Bishops’ palace was once a fortress in the violent "debatable lands,” and has always been a house of prayer. It is now a global centre for peace and reconciliation - a hospitable sanctuary on the edge of the Lake District.

Partners

We collaborate with trusted institutions across faiths and sectors. These long-term partnerships ground our work in local contexts, ensuring wide and deep impact and a global network for sustainable peace.