"How do we recuperate a sense that perhaps our greatest gift in the context of really deep loss is the embodiment of presence?"
I’m going to focus my comments this morning mostly on this recent experience in Nepal. That book actually was requested by the foundation that I was connected to originally as a white paper. They wanted a white paper on all the things that had been learned across twelve, thirteen years of that work. And I said I’d rather write a memoir because I think a memoir permits you to interact in a different way. So half of that book are the faces and stories of the people I worked with. And half of them are reflections about the challenges of working in a setting when we started that was an open civil war, navigating through a comprehensive peace agreement, a very slow, extended, and difficult period of implementation, and a lot of deep disruptions that were emerging at community levels as people were navigating out of that…
Lederach, John Paul. “John Paul Lederach Speaks at the Next Gen Peace Conference.” Keynote presented at the Alliance for Peacebuilding Next Gen Peace Conference, Washington, D.C., May 2016.
“John Paul Lederach Speaks at the Next Gen Peace Conference,” 2016 Next Gen Peace Conference, by Alliance for Peacebuilding. Shared with permission.
An abridged version of the book, The Little Book of Conflict Transformation.
An article describing the emergence and transformative impact of a community mediation program in Nepal.
Thoughts about the challenge of to all of us as leaders when we live in settings of social fragmentation and at the same time are committed to pursue justice and healing in our relationships.