Resiliency and Healthy Communities: An Exploration of Image and Metaphor
chapter

Resiliency and Healthy Communities: An Exploration of Image and Metaphor

A contribution to a report on Community Resiliency that explores the ways we organize our thinking around the concepts of "health" and "community" through metaphor and professional experience in the fields of peacebuilding and conflict transformation.

2006
Let Us Talk: African Contributions to Peacebuilding
chapter

Let Us Talk: African Contributions to Peacebuilding

A chapter highlighting contributions to the practice of grassroots peacebuilding from Somalia and Liberia.

2014
The Doables: Just Policing on the Ground
chapter

The Doables: Just Policing on the Ground

The concluding chapter to the book Just Policing, Not War that considers practices and strategies for just policing and human security that are available, accessible, and acceptable.

2007
For Our Healing
chapter

For Our Healing

A preface discussing the challenges of healing in the aftermath of violence and the need for authenticity of approach that respects each individual while recognizing several important guideposts common to all.

2002
Peacebuilding, critical yeast, and the language of imagination
podcast

Peacebuilding, critical yeast, and the language of imagination

A conversation about language, imagination, and how to cultivate peace and transform conflict in everyday life.

2025
Want to be Resilient? Build Local, Build Now
podcast

Want to be Resilient? Build Local, Build Now

An episode of the “Reimagining Us” podcast exploring the challenges of isolation and division facing communities in the U.S., and the power rebuilding of trusting relationships to build individual and collective resilience to crisis.

2024
Teaching Peace Top-down, Bottom-up, or Both?: Navigating Basic Dilemmas in Cross-Cultural Conflict Resolution Education
journal article

Teaching Peace Top-down, Bottom-up, or Both?: Navigating Basic Dilemmas in Cross-Cultural Conflict Resolution Education

An article that offers a new framework for cross-cultural conflict resolution education that builds from John Paul’s original distinction between prescriptive and elicitive approaches.

2024
Mission Forward Podcast A Recipe for Cooling Down American Politics with Peacebuilder Dr. John Paul Lederach
podcast

Mission Forward Podcast A Recipe for Cooling Down American Politics with Peacebuilder Dr. John Paul Lederach

John Paul shares insights about how ordinary people can take action to interrupt cycles of toxic polarization in their communities.

2024
The Growing Edge Podcast Unexpected Hope in Improbable Actions
podcast

The Growing Edge Podcast Unexpected Hope in Improbable Actions

John Paul provides thoughtful, sometimes surprising ideas and advice on how to navigate, disrupt and mitigate the patterns that lead to deeper conflict, with attention to what is happening in contemporary U.S. politics.

2024
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