circulation

A collection of stories, reflections, and wisdom offering insight into the challenge of facing down toxic polarization layered with violence and the surprising ways everyday people found to shift harmful patterns of violence that had lasted decades. 

A training of trainers manual to support NGO workers engaging in peacebuilding, conflict resolution, and reconciliation initiatives.

A chapter weaving reflections emergent from the apprenticeship program that includes narratives from each of the four apprentices.

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 about the moral imagination as a source and approach to long-term, sustainable social change.

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

Insights into building a broad-based, pro-democracy movement inspired by coordination and circulation strategies of bees, termites, and spiders.

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

John Paul shares a story and reflections from his experience accompanying a conflict transformation movement in Nepal with Duke Divinity School's Summer Institute for Reconciliation.