conversation

Circles and Pollination: A New Way to Engage Conflict

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

2025

Peace Podcast Episode 163: John Paul Lederach

A conversation about pocket imagination, conflict transformation, and the moral imagination in the context of peacebuilding in the United States.

2025

podcast

John Paul Lederach on Facing Down a Civil War

A conversation between John Paul by David Swanson about dynamics of conflict and polarization, and pathways to resist these dynamics in the United States.

2025

blog post

Why movements need to learn to fly like bees and thread like spiders

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

2025

presentation

Making a Difference: Putting Peacebuilding in Context

An exploration of generative questions for philanthropy and peacebuilding shared at the Social Change Initiative’s 2024 conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

2024

presentation

John Paul Lederach Speaks at the Next Gen Peace Conference

A keynote speech at the 2016 Alliance for Peacebuilding Conference reflecting on accompaniment of peacebuilding and conflict transformation in Nepal across a decade.

2016