Peacebuilding: A Caritas Training Manual

Peacebuilding: A Caritas Training Manual

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

Staying True in Nepal: Understanding Community Mediation Through Action Research

Staying True in Nepal: Understanding Community Mediation Through Action Research

A chapter focusing on a community mediation initiative in Nepal that employed participatory action research as the mode for understanding practice and the development of relevant training materials for local use. 

Levels of Leadership

Levels of Leadership

An analytical and descriptive exploration of a pyramid model to capture the overview of how an entire affected population in a setting of internal armed conflict is represented by leaders and other actors, as well as the roles they play in navigating the situation.

Journey from Resolution to Transformative Peacebuilding

Journey from Resolution to Transformative Peacebuilding

A chapter reflecting on three specific experiences that marked important evolutions in John Paul's thinking and practice.

Conflict Transformation: The Case for Peace Advocacy

Conflict Transformation: The Case for Peace Advocacy

A chapter that advances an orientation to peacemaking termed peace advocacy, which emphasizes a trust-based approach undertaking with a long-term commitment and based on the development of relationships.

Burma Diary

Burma Diary

A travel diary written over the course of John Paul's first trip to Myanmar in Spring 2003.

YATAMA-Sandinista Mediation: Twelve Things I Have Learned

YATAMA-Sandinista Mediation: Twelve Things I Have Learned

Twelve reflections gathered through the experience of mediating between YATAMA and the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

Reframing a Conflict

Reframing a Conflict

A diagram illustrating the process of reframing a conflict to arrive toward solutions that hold potential to meet all concerns.

Understanding Conflict: Experience, Structure and Dynamics

Understanding Conflict: Experience, Structure and Dynamics

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