Peacebuilding: A Caritas Training Manual

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

Facing the Oka Crisis: A Conflict Resolution Perspective

Observations and suggestions for how the Oka Crisis might be understood emergent from the Autumn 1990 armed standoff between Mohawks and the Quebec and Canadian governments.

Conflict Transformation in Protracted Internal Conflicts: The Case for a Comprehensive Framework

A chapter that outlines a comprehensive framework for conflict transformation in protracted, internal conflicts.

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.

The Meeting Place (Draft in Progress, Chapter 8, The Journey Toward Reconciliation)

A draft of a chapter that explores through story the social energies of reconciliation, namely Truth, Justice, Mercy, and Peace.

Teacher Spider and the Golden Thread

A dharma talk shared with the Upaya Zen Center community in March 2020 for the Socially Engaged Buddhist Training.

Compassion and Integrity in an Age of Fragmentation

A speech delivered at Hesston College's 2016 Homecoming celebration sharing stories from personal and professional experiences illuminating the transformative power of compassion and integrity in embodied presence.

Conflict in the Countryside

An exercise to develop a proposal for the construction of health clinics in a country navigating conflict following the signing of a peace accord.

Understanding Conflict: Experience, Structure and Dynamics

Guide posts for conflict managers to understand key aspects of the experience, structure, and dynamics of conflict.