Sharon Gubbay Helfer

Sharon Gubbay Helfer

CaPSL Affiliate
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Dr. Sharon Gubbay Helfer is an oral historian, a scholar-practitioner of difficult dialogues, and a facilitator and trainer in the skills of everyday peace-making developed by the Compassionate Listening Project. As Research Associate with the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia, she worked on the project “Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide, and other Human Rights Violations”.expand

There she created a pilot archive of Palestinian Canadian Life Stories and an online exhibit created together with the Palestinian participants, an exhibit launched at CEREV in 2012 (click here for a link to the project website). Her current projects focus on dialogue, peace-building, and transformation starting with individual citizens in Montreal, Quebec and Canada. Sharon was a CEREV Curatorial Fellow in the Winter of 2012.