accompaniment

Starting with experiences in Central America in the 1980s, John Paul began to work closely with the thought and strategies of Latin American authors like Paolo Freire, Gustavo Gutierrez, and Orlando Fals Borda. These approaches articulated the basis of participatory action research and accompaniment of people often on the front lines of facing direct and structural violence. Accompaniment articulates the approach of leading from alongside the experiences, insights, and innovations of people with deep experience in their own context. These ideas became second nature in many of the books and writing over the years from Preparing for Peace to the engagements in Nepal 35 years later.

document

On Togetherness

Reflections emergent from the Apprenticeship Program on the experience as an mentor/anchor.

2009

document

Tajikistan: The Ironies of Birth and the Building of Civil Society

Reflections emergent from collaborating alongside university professors in Tajikistan to produce the Tajik language textbook about peacebuilding.

2002

document

YATAMA-Sandinista Mediation: Twelve Things I Have Learned

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

1988

document

10 Lessons Learned Wandering in Peacebuilding

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.

2006

paper

Unmasking Evil: Religiously Motivated Peacebuilding and the Challenge of Terror

A draft paper written for presentation at the First Annual Catholic Peacebuilding Network Conference held in 2004.

2004

blog post

How Does Humanity Unite?

Thoughts about the challenge of to all of us as leaders when we live in settings of social fragmentation and at the same time are committed to pursue justice and healing in our relationships.

2016