creativity

Spirituality and Religious Peacebuilding
chapter

Spirituality and Religious Peacebuilding

A chapter exploring the meaning of quality of presence rising from spiritual resources that facilitate the practice of religious peacebuilding in protracted conflict.

2015
Strategic Peacebuilding: An Overview
chapter

Strategic Peacebuilding: An Overview

A chapter that sketches the contours of a theory of strategic peacebuilding and offers practical suggestions for peacebuilding practitioners.

2010
The Arts and Peacebuilding: Using Imagination and Creativity
chapter

The Arts and Peacebuilding: Using Imagination and Creativity

A chapter that explores three examples that illustrate the power of arts and creativity in building peace.

2005
The Wow Factor and a Non-Theory of Change
chapter

The Wow Factor and a Non-Theory of Change

A thought piece that explores positive approaches to peacebuilding as a composite moment in which the creative process lifts sight to a new, more holistic view.

2010
Five Qualities of Practice in Support of Reconciliation Processes
chapter

Five Qualities of Practice in Support of Reconciliation Processes

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.

2001
Better Communication for Better Health: A Conversation with Dr. John Paul Lederach
video recording

Better Communication for Better Health: A Conversation with Dr. John Paul Lederach

A conversation exploring how to apply the principles of peacebuilding to public health communications in settings of conflict and polarization.

2025
When toxic polarization becomes a civil war – and what we can do about it
podcast

When toxic polarization becomes a civil war – and what we can do about it

A conversation hosted on Nonviolence Radio about nonviolent resistance to polarization in the United States that is grounded in community, relationship, and the humble courage of creativity.

2025
Peacebuilding, critical yeast, and the language of imagination
podcast

Peacebuilding, critical yeast, and the language of imagination

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

2025
Faith Into Action: A Moral Imagination Conversation
video recording

Faith Into Action: A Moral Imagination Conversation

A video emergent from the URI Moral Imagination program in which Libby Hoffman, Charles Gibbs, and John Paul discuss how the Moral Imagination supports URI practice and philosophy.

2008
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