inner works

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.

A letter of wisdom and encouragement to young mediator about the craft of mediation and the inner works required to live the practice with integrity.

John Paul and Serena Bian share a conversation on topics including the inner dimensions of peacebuilding, intergenerational and collective trauma and healing, and spiritual sustenance for long-term engagement in social change.

A conversation exploring the power of presence, story, deep listening, and collective empathy in transforming conflict.

In contribution to the Kroc Institute’s 2025 Summer Peacebuilding Academy, John Paul invites listeners to reflect on his half-century arc of experience in the field,  encouraging engagement with the core tensions of peacemaking in a time of crisis.

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.

In a podcast hosted by Rational Games, John Paul and Mark Young dive deep into the transformative power of negotiation, peacebuilding, and social change.

John Paul shares reflections about accompaniment embedded in a story from his experience from the 1980s being alongside negotiations to end the war in Nicaragua.

A conversation between John Paul and Joe Primo in contribution to the course, “Grateful Hope: Passion for the Possible.”