welcome to the john paul lederach archive

A collection of haikus written during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The opening ceremony for the 2021 4 Corners Festival with poetic contributions from John Paul, Raquel McKee, Pádraig Ó Tuama, and Jonny Fitch.

A video emergent from a conversation retreat reflecting on the metaphors of trees and wood working in relationship with conflict and peace.

Three poems written in the months following 11 September in the United States, Colombia, and Burma/Myanmar.

A poetry reading from John Paul of a series of haikus for the first On Being Gathering held at the 1440 Multiversity in Scotts Valley, CA.

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."

A collection of practices and facilitation ideas shared in the URI Moral Imagination Program. 

A video emergent from the URI Moral Imagination program in which Libby Hoffman, Charles Gibbs, and John Paul discuss how the Moral Imagination supports URI practice and philosophy.

John Paul's contributions to the Upaya Zen Center's Zen Brain conference in 2017, which explored the theme, "Mind, Brain, Social Perspectives of Views, Values, Ethics."