BUILDING BRIDGES TO JUSTICE THROUGH UNITY: by Karen Tse (USA, Switzerland & China), Founder of IBJ

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Rev. Karen Tse speaks to us from the heart of her home in Geneva, on the edge of a forest, where she finds replenishment in the trees from the demands of her worldwide campaign to end torture. Her experience as a young UN human rights officer in Cambodia shaped her life’s calling to eliminate torture. “I established International Bridges of Justice because every day in countries around the world, people are arbitrarily detained and tortured. Because torture is the cheapest form of investigation… IBJ has built a worldwide movement to end torture as an investigative  tool.” Karen shares how she brings together the linear results-oriented challenge of her legal work with her parallel path as a scholar of divinity studies and a universalist preacher. She speaks poignantly of the importance of being  ‘at home’ in oneself, in one’s calling, and in the world, and she…