The Iris Women Jordan CC has been invited by PEACE X PEACE Global Network to participate in the Women's Global Initiative project by creating a handbook of best practices for cross-cultural communication entitled "Facilitator's Handbook: Bridging the Gap between the U.S. and Muslim-Majority Regions."

The Iris Women Jordan CC has been invited by PEACE X PEACE Global Network to participate in the Women's Global Initiative project by creating a handbook of best practices for cross-cultural communication entitled "Facilitator's Handbook: Bridging the Gap between the U.S. and Muslim-Majority Regions."

Our intention is to build bridges of love and mutual understanding between all nations. We want to reach out to each other. We want to be friends. There is greater freedom in no longer hiding behind arms and bravely stretching out a hand and offering an open heart.

We need to construct a new road to co-operation and peace that is based on mutual understanding and true intentions. If peace does not exist between religions there will be war between civilizations. There will be no peace between religions if there is no dialogue between them.

We should raise above all differences and see our spiritual oneness. We should learn to love each other and to appreciate the nice things that people do. If we keep talking about the good things, we will forget all the superficial differences that divided us. If we go a little deeper, where is the black and where is the white? Where is the Muslim, Jew or Christian? The spirit has no white or black, Muslim, Christian or Jew? This is the real spiritual life: talking in terms of spirit, love in terms of spirit, this is the real union of communication. We cannot communicate with GOD with out having communication with our fellow beings.
We believe that we can't change the whole world, but we are ambitious to make a little difference in people's lives with love, encouragement, support, and hope. We must be the living example of God's kindness by smiling and offering warm greetings.

Our hope is that the Facilitator's Handbook will be useful in transforming stumbling blocks of miscommunication into building blocks for peace.