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The Solidarity Dialogues Program is proud to announce Xiwei Huang as the inaugural recipient of the PLEDJ Solidarity Dialogues Excellence Award 2026! Xiwei Huang The award was established to recognize individuals who demonstrate exceptional leadership, creativity, and commitment in advancing dialogue within their communities and spheres of care. We honour those who embody the core values of fostering brave spaces for engagement across difference, strengthening relationships rooted in empathy...

Over the course of eight days and more than 72 hours together, PLEDJ brought together 19 participants from diverse backgrounds to train the second cohort of facilitators for our Solidarity Dialogues program. What emerged over those eight days was a collective exploration of what it means to build relationships across differences, to sit with discomfort, and to create spaces where people can move toward shared understandings. Led by Dr. Amal Elsana Alh’jooj, Mr. Brian Bronfman, Dr. Patrice...

On Monday March 23, 2026, PLEDJ hosted a Solidarity Dialogues gathering to demonstrate our Nested Model to our French community in Montreal. This evening brought together students, community leaders and professors to dialogue around: Religion, secularism, and belonging: experiences and perspectives. A crucial reminder that during times of polarization, it is utterly important to find solidarity among those who are impacted by deep rooted conflict, to share the collective responsibility of...