Thoughts on a Penny

Challenges to Creative Conflict in the Public Square

"Leadership becomes transformative to the degree leadership can tap and engender a constant flow of creativity, the poetics of innovation."

A wandering, perhaps poetic exploration of contemporary challenges and deficits facing the wider fields of conflict transformation and peacebuilding and how these correspond to the challenges of the ever more divided public square and dialogue-dis-abled United States.

Lederach, John Paul. “Thoughts on a Penny: Challenges to Creative Conflict in the Public Square.” Lecture presented at the 26th Annual Lynch Lecture, Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, January 26, 2015.

Recorded at and shared with permission from the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution in contribution to the Vernon M. and Minnie I. Lynch Lecture Series.

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