John Paul Lederach Speaks at the Next Gen Peace Conference

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…