dialogue

Resiliency and Healthy Communities: An Exploration of Image and Metaphor
chapter

Resiliency and Healthy Communities: An Exploration of Image and Metaphor

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.

2006
Let Us Talk: African Contributions to Peacebuilding
chapter

Let Us Talk: African Contributions to Peacebuilding

A chapter highlighting contributions to the practice of grassroots peacebuilding from Somalia and Liberia.

2014
Letter to a Young Mediator
document

Letter to a Young Mediator

A letter of wisdom and encouragement to young mediator about the craft of mediation and the inner works required to live the practice with integrity.

2015
Peace Podcast Episode 163: John Paul Lederach
podcast

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
Hope and Liberation
presentation

Hope and Liberation

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.

2024
Creative Beginnings: From the Moral Imagination Program
document

Creative Beginnings: From the Moral Imagination Program

A collection of practices and facilitation ideas shared in the URI Moral Imagination Program. 

2008
Let’s Talk About Culture: Reconcile Chapter 9 Finale
video recording

Let’s Talk About Culture: Reconcile Chapter 9 Finale

The final session of a book study of Reconcile, hosted through Let's Talk About Culture, in which John Paul features as a guest.

2020
John Paul Lederach Speaks at the Next Gen Peace Conference
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
A Sauntering Field Trip: The Extraordinary Arc of a Thousand Conversations…Plus a Few Side Notes on the Way to a Peace Conference
presentation

A Sauntering Field Trip: The Extraordinary Arc of a Thousand Conversations…Plus a Few Side Notes on the Way to a Peace Conference

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

2021
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