ritual

A collection of stories, reflections, and wisdom offering insight into the challenge of facing down toxic polarization layered with violence and the surprising ways everyday people found to shift harmful patterns of violence that had lasted decades. 

A toolkit intended to improve peacebuilders’ ability to be reflective practitioners which involves enhancing peacebuilders’ capacity to design and impact transformative change, and track and improve upon those changes over time in unpredictable conflict contexts.

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

Two sessions in a series produced for the Ritual: Wellbeing app in which the practice of haiku is explored to enliven the senses and cultivate awareness and playfulness.

A conference paper that shares key themes about the challenges of building peace and the role and challenges in particular for ex-prisoners and ex-combatants in settings of protracted conflict.

The foreword to Belfast: Toward a City Without Walls, which tells the stories of individuals, communities, and agencies involved in maintaining peace at the interfaces of Belfast.

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

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

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.