diagrams

As a deeply reflective practitioner, John Paul's scholarship is predicated on experience-shaped learning from which he has inductively developed theoretical perspectives. These theories have significantly influenced the field of peacebuilding and conflict transformation. Elaborated in numerous books, book chapters, and articles, many of these theories were originally captured visually in doodles and later took the form of diagrams and charts. A selection of these are displayed in this section. (Please note that permission to reprint these figures in to-be-published materials must be sought from the publishers of the books in which they feature.)

The Ins and Outs of Conflict Help in Central America

A diagram created in a training in Costa Rica outlining participants' understanding of navigating and helping to navigate conflict.

Strategic and Responsive Tools for Evaluation

A set of tools to integrate strategic and responsive components of evaluation for peacebuilding initiatives.

Approaches to Training

A matrix linking conflict resolutionary and transformative approaches to training.

An Integrated Framework for Peacebuilding

A diagram illustrating an integrated approach to peacebuilding, linking together structural and procedural lenses.

A Working Matrix for Developing an Infrastructure for Peacebuilding

A working infrastructure matrix that outlines four categories of inquiry to guide the development of a more comprehensive approach to peacebuilding.

Nested Paradigm: The Time Dimension in Peacebuilding

A diagram proposing a nested paradigm for understanding and envisioning time frames for sustainable transformation.

The Place Called Reconciliation

A visual of reconciliation as a meeting place of four social energies in conflict and peacebuilding - Truth, Justice, Mercy, and Peace.

Doodle Five. The Past that Lies Before Us

A diagram from The Moral Imagination that offers a way to explore a more holistic understanding of settings of cycles of violent conflict.

Doodle Six. Expanded Framework for Peacebuilding

A doodle that connects the nested spheres of the first iteration of the integrated framework for peacebuilding with the nested spheres of the past that lies before us.