Walt Disney developed the process of storyboarding in outlining and producing cartoons. It has made its way into conflict resolution as a useful process for identifying problems and possible solutions. I have been using a variation of storyboarding in training as a tool for facilitating the discovery and creation of mediation models that may be implicit in the culture. At essence, the storyboarding process involves working with index cards. A single idea, word, or image is written on each card related to a given theme. A ‘story’ is then created by linking and grouping these cards together by commonality or sequence…
Lederach, John Paul. “Storyboarding in Model Creation.” In Beyond Prescription: Perspectives on Conflict, Culture, and Training. Inter-Racial and Cross-Cultural Conflict Resolution Project. Waterloo, Ontario: Conrad Grebel College, Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, 1994.
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An article describing the emergence and transformative impact of a community mediation program in Nepal.
A manuscript written for the Inter-racial and Cross-cultural Conflict Resolution Project at Conrad Grebel College's Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.
An exploration of prescriptive and elicitive methods of training and conflict work across cultures that places emphasis on the resources emergent from the context and setting of a given conflict.