welcome to the john paul lederach archive

A table exploring the descriptive and prescriptive ways of understanding conflict transformation across four dimensions: personal, relational, structural, and cultural.

A foreword written for The Bernal Story, a firsthand account of the transformation of a community conflict in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California.

The foreword to Discovering Forgiveness, a stream of stories that create a deep grounding in both the potential and the complexity of how forgiveness emerges and finds expression.

The foreword to Belfast: Toward a City Without Walls, which tells the stories of individuals, communities, and agencies involved in maintaining peace at the interfaces of Belfast.

The foreword to the book Experiential Peacebuilding, emergent from Outward Bound Peacebuilding's theory, practice, and experience.

A foreword penned for Earl Zimmerman's book Practicing the Politics of Jesus: The Origin and Significance of John Howard Yoder’s Social Ethics.

The foreword to Satyagraha and Nonresistance, which explores tensions and resonances between the Anabaptist notion of nonresistance and Gandhian views of nonviolence.

The foreword to the book The Cooperative Solution, which offers local examples of cooperative economics that provide a vision of true globalization from below, a vision of a just and sustainable world.

The foreword to the first volume of Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict, which describes peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts.