Our Impact

From Distrust and Division to Hospitality and Healing  

Across the world, communities are divided by politics, religion, identities, cultures and histories. Too often, our differences and deepest values are seen as part of the problem — something to be managed, not mobilised. 

Rose Castle Foundation takes a different view. We believe that when we recognise the dignity of difference, listen to those we rarely see and hear, and build on our deepest values we enable transformational action in broken communities. 

Since 2014, RCF has equipped more than 2000 faith-formed leaders across 30 countries with the skills, tools and habits to cross divides and transform conflict — restoring trust, dignity, and hope in deeply fractured spaces.

“What Rose Castle Foundation has to offer through the Rose Way is deeply relevant to, and urgently needed, not just in Libya but in every country of the Middle East and North Africa – and the world.” 

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Dr Aref Ali Nayed
Founder and Chairman | Kalam Research & Media 

How we make a difference

Our programmes combine three elements that create lasting impact: 

1. Character formation of reconcilers — peace is sustained by wise people, not just sound processes and systems.  We support highly motivated emerging leaders to draw on their wisdom traditions and values to cultivate habits of the head, heart and hands that allow them to recognise the dignity of difference, listen deeply, and act with courage across divides.  
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 2. Relationships across divides — we facilitate spaces of mutual hospitality, where participants safely experience ‘daring’ encounters with those they find most difficult, different and distanced, building trust and empathy between unlikely partners.

3. Faith-inspired practice and action — long after programmes have finished, we encourage participants to collaborate in the community, converse around their Scriptures and sources of wisdom, and to walk, talk, and break bread together. We offer them ongoing mentoring and peer-to-peer support to embed ongoing conflict transformation and dialogue. 

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What We’ve Achieved Together 

Impact at a glance 

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Reconciler Stories

Writings and reflections by our programme participants and partners. 

 

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Voices from our global network 

“I was so wrapped up in conflict…The programme showed me another way is possible: a practice of hospitality grounded in the hearted recognition of and love for one another and who we really are.”

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“Biblical Reasoning gave me permission to lament for pain; lament for my brother’s pain; lament for my enemies’ pain.” 

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Heartlines Bridge Programme | South Africa

“If one implements the 12 Habits in their groups, it allows for critical thinking and re-examination in order to come up with a collaborative response that will positively impact our community rather than individuals.”

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Heartlines Bridge Programme | South Africa

“This programme changed my entire view of what is possible in multifaith relationships. For the first time in years I have hope — made real by faith in myself and others to mend the world.”

Roman Catholic youth leader and lay chaplain

"I would commend the approach and experience of the Rose Castle Foundation in giving a relational tool
that can assist in building peace from the family to international diplomacy."

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The Rt Revd Nicholas Dill
Bishop of Bermuda

A learning organisation for peace

RCF is a team of reflective practitioners continually testing and refining the Rose Way to understand what works, for whom, and why. 

We measure impact not just by numbers trained, but by the transformations we witness — in how people think, relate, and act across divides. 

With long-standing connections to some of the world’s leading universities and researchers, spanning a range of contexts, cultures and disciplines, we are developing best-in-class mixed methods evaluation frameworks to measure change at four levels: 

1. Personal growth: growth in participants’ knowledge, understanding, empathy, skills and confidence to act as reconcilers, cultivating the habits of reconcilers. 

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2. Relationships strengthened: deepened trust, empathy and understanding; attitudinal and behavioural shifts; improved communication patterns; fostering connection through “deep-to-deep” encounter. 

3. Structural shifts: developments in systems, structures and processes within and between institutions and communities to embed reconciliation practices and leadership models, build institutional learning and capacity, scale programmatic reach, embedding patterns of reconciliation within local systems. 

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4. Cultural transformations: broader movements toward a ‘covenantal pluralism’ — communities and societies where differences are valued, communal identities are reimagined, and shared responsibility for peace and the promotion of human dignity is the norm. 

Looking Ahead

Scaling peace through partnership 

We are now expanding our network of reconcilers and institutional partners to deepen and scale the Rose Way in new regions. 

Together with universities, seminaries, NGOs, and houses of worship, we aim to equip thousands more leaders to cross divides, strengthen their communities, and live out a reconciled way of being.