mesoamerica

A conversation at the 2021 4 Corners Festival reflecting on peacebuilding and conflict transformation through John Paul's career past and present.

A interview with Julian Portilla exploring themes of narrative and storytelling, insider-outsider models of mediation, and personal and professional formative influences in the U.S. during the Civil Rights Movement, in Nicaragua, and in Costa Rica.

An interview by Christian Piatt about the book, Reconcile: Conflict Transformation for Ordinary Christians.

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

An exercise simulating pre-negotiations, placing emphasis on the difficulties of getting people to the table, and is a fictionalization of the East Coast/Sandinista negotiations of the 1980s.

An unpublished commissioned paper looking at the conflict in Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast from the viewpoint of indigenous peacemakers.

Reflections emergent from cross-cultural conflict and mediation training in Latin America.

Twelve reflections gathered through the experience of mediating between YATAMA and the Sandinista government in Nicaragua.

A top ten list of things that the international arena, especially the many settings of struggling with protracted and violent conflict, has taught John Paul about life and the vocation of peacebuilding.