Peace Podcast 163

John Paul Lederach

Peace Podcast Episode 163: John Paul Lederach
“We need to understand friendships and connections and relationships as part of what democracy both offers and requires.”

John Paul joins Barbara Gaughen-Muller on PeacePodcast.org in a conversation that touches into John Paul’s life journey in conflict transformation and peacebuilding and key elements of the relational, philosophical, and practice-based orientation of John Paul’s practice. This includes discussion of the recent publication, The Pocket Guide for Facing Down a Civil War, and the pocket imagination required to transform cycles of violence where you live; how to be in conversations across difference that create conditions for transformation; and the disciplines of the moral imagination in contexts of protracted violence.

Gaughen-Muller, Barbara. “Peace Podcast Episode 163: John Paul Lederach.” Peace Podcast with Barbara Gaughen-Muller. April 1, 2025 (published).

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