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An OpEd published on The Washington Post about lessons from around the world to deescalate toxic polarization in the United States.

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. 

Reflections gathered from a decade and more of work in Nepal, written for The McConnell Foundation and friends and partners in Nepal.

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

John Paul's contributions to the Upaya Zen Center's Varela Symposium 2018, which explored the theme, "Transforming Conflict: From Science to Real World Applications."

A collection of one hundred thoughts, Advent reflections.

An article offering a glimpse into John Paul's practice of peacebuilding in La Pedregosa, Colombia.

An article that links psychosocial theories with the social energies of reconciliation, then applies this framework to the case of Guatemala, emphasizing the value of linking the literatures of peace psychology and conflict transformation.

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.