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An overview of how to build civil society and reconciliation in post-accord settings where protracted conflicted has created deep animosities and divisions.

A practitioner’s view of attitudes and approaches for supporting reconciliation that have proven useful, cautioning against reducing reconciliation to a formula or technique-based methodology.

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.

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

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 special conversation in contribution to the 2021 Korea Global Forum for Peace Education, themed 'Peace Education in Divided Societies.'

A keynote address delivered for the University Notre Dame Student Peace Conference in April 2021.

A speech delivered at Hesston College's 2016 Homecoming celebration sharing stories from personal and professional experiences illuminating the transformative power of compassion and integrity in embodied presence.

A keynote address delivered at The Transformative Mosaic Conference, organized by Mediation Northern Ireland in 2011.