survival

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. 

Reflections gathered from a decade and more of work in Nepal, written for The McConnell Foundation and friends and partners in Nepal.

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

A contribution to the W. David Baird Distinguished Lecture Series at Pepperdine University's Seaver College.

A collection of one hundred thoughts, Advent reflections.

An article exploring challenges of inclusivity in peace processes and proposing a shift in metaphor to enhance inclusivity.

The prelude to Oumar Farouk Sesay's book of poetry entitled The Edge of a Cry.

The foreword to the book The Cooperative Solution, which offers local examples of cooperative economics that provide a vision of true globalization from below, a vision of a just and sustainable world.

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.