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A collection of stories, reflections, and wisdom offering insight into the challenge of facing down toxic polarization layered with violence and the surprising ways everyday people found to shift harmful patterns of violence that had lasted decades. 

A book weaving thoughts and insights about the nature, challenges, and possibilities of constructive social change.

A manuscript written for the Inter-racial and Cross-cultural Conflict Resolution Project at Conrad Grebel College's Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies.

A collection of videos created in spring 2020 that invite pause and reflection through wisdom and the arts.

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."

A contribution to the W. David Baird Distinguished Lecture Series at Pepperdine University's Seaver College.

An article offering a glimpse into John Paul's practice of peacebuilding in La Pedregosa, Colombia.

Observations and suggestions for how the Oka Crisis might be understood emergent from the Autumn 1990 armed standoff between Mohawks and the Quebec and Canadian governments.

A commissioned paper articulating a Christian pacifist perspective on nonviolent approaches to contemporary conflict.