violence

Exploring Environmental Violence: Perspectives, Experience, Expression, and Engagement
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Exploring Environmental Violence: Perspectives, Experience, Expression, and Engagement

A volume containing contributions from a variety of disciplines that explores the implications of and responses to environmental violence.

2024
The Pocket Guide for Facing Down a Civil War: Surprising ideas from everyday people who shifted the cycles of violence
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The Pocket Guide for Facing Down a Civil War: Surprising ideas from everyday people who shifted the cycles of violence

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. 

2024
Memoirs of Nepal: Reflections Across a Decade
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Memoirs of Nepal: Reflections Across a Decade

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

2015
The Poetic Unfolding of the Human Spirit
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The Poetic Unfolding of the Human Spirit

A travelogue reflecting on what it means to be fully engaged in the world.

2011
Reflective Peacebuilding: A Planning, Monitoring and Learning Toolkit
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Reflective Peacebuilding: A Planning, Monitoring and Learning Toolkit

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.

2007
Peacebuilding: A Caritas Training Manual
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Peacebuilding: A Caritas Training Manual

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

2002
The Weekly Pause: Reachable From Here
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The Weekly Pause: Reachable From Here

A collection of videos created in spring 2020 that invite pause and reflection through wisdom and the arts.

2020
Varela Symposium: Transforming Conflict – From Science to Real World Applications
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Varela Symposium: Transforming Conflict – From Science to Real World Applications

John Paul's contributions to the Upaya Zen Center's Varela Symposium 2018, which explored the theme, "Transforming Conflict: From Science to Real World Applications."

2018
Pepperdine University Lecture The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace
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Pepperdine University Lecture The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace

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

2010
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