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Marlies ter Borg is a Dutch free lance philosopher, public intellectual and bridgebuilder. Her most recent publication is Sharing Mary, Bible and Qur'an Side by Side

Biography Christened as Margarethe Louise Amelia Neervoort, she was born in Indonesia in December 1948, during the Indonesian War of Independence. Brought up in England and Holland, in a pleasant mix of protestant denominations, she does now not profess to a particular faith. She studied philosopy and sociology at Leiden and Amsterdam University, and received a PhD from the Free University of Amsterdam with a thesis on the ‘Belief in Progress and Economic Growth’.She worked as parliamentary assistant for the Dutch Green Party; at the Scientific Council for Government Policy (WRR); and at the Free University of Amsterdam as polemologist. Emerging Technologies Military Doctrine, a Political AssessmentDuring the Cold War she organised bridge building seminars between East and West, resulting in a timely publication with contributions from NATO and Warsaw Treaty experts: Non Provocative Defence as a Principle of Arms Reduction. After the Cold War she intiated and led the Foundation Building for Peace, which ran a housing project for Russian military families returning home, from Eastern Europe. In