elicitive approach

Beyond Prescription: Perspectives on Conflict, Culture, and Training

A manuscript written for the Inter-racial and Cross-cultural Conflict Resolution Project at Conrad Grebel College's Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.

1994

journal article

Teaching Peace Top-down, Bottom-up, or Both?: Navigating Basic Dilemmas in Cross-Cultural Conflict Resolution Education

An article that offers a new framework for cross-cultural conflict resolution education that builds from John Paul’s original distinction between prescriptive and elicitive approaches.

2024

presentation

Dispatches from Nowhere Near the Promise Land: How a Peacebuilder Unlearned His Trade

A lecture delivered on the occasion of being awarded the Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize at Brandeis University.

2019

journal article

Building Mediative Capacity in Deep-Rooted Conflict

An article making the case that the nature, purpose, and construction of mediation must be reconsidered toward the nurturing of social mediative capacity.

2002

interview

Beyond Intractability Interview

A interview with Julian Portilla exploring themes of narrative and storytelling, insider-outsider models of mediation, and personal and professional formative influences in the U.S. during the Civil Rights Movement, in Nicaragua, and in Costa Rica.

2003

document

Storyboarding in Model Creation

A tool to facilitate the discovery and creation of mediation models that may be implicit in a culture.

1994