Author of A Tender Bridge, (Cairns 2002), Peter Pelz is a director of The Soul of Europe, an organization which promotes collaboration between faiths and communities and which he established with Donald Reeves in 2000. He is also an artist and writer. After studying and graduating from Cambridge University in 1969, Peter Pelz worked as a teacher and organizer of Arts Festivals. He has exhibited throughout Europe. He speaks German, Russian and French as well as English.