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 Simon
Cohen
Journalist, Director of global tolerance
United Kingdom
Simon Cohen
is Director of global tolerance (www.globaltolerance.com) and
a freelance writer on religious affairs. Media Week magazine
has voted Simon as one of the top thirty media professionals under
the age of
thirty in Britain for
the last two years.
Simon launched www.adamandeveit.net in
October 2003, a website that seeks to engage secular society with issues related
to faith and diversity. He received an award funded by the Millennium Commission
for the website’s positive social impact and creative approach to religion.
In November 2003, Simon set up Tolerance Limited, a company that serves to
improve interfaith relations and society's tolerance and understanding of religion.
His company is involved in local, national and international interfaith projects,
including the first national interfaith football tournament. He devised and
helped organize the National Conference on the Media and a Multi Faith Society
in London in March 2004.
Simon is
a member of the British Association of Journalists and has written
for a number of publications on religious affairs, including the global
inter faith magazine Initiative. Simon studied Theology at the University
of Nottingham, where he specialized in religious pluralism. He spent
three and a half years in the media industry before setting up his
own company.
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