pessimism

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

John Paul provides thoughtful, sometimes surprising ideas and advice on how to navigate, disrupt and mitigate the patterns that lead to deeper conflict, with attention to what is happening in contemporary U.S. politics.

The second episode in "The Day After Tomorrow: A Virtual Talk Story Series," hosted by the Institute for Climate and Peace.

A keynote delivered at the for the 40th anniversary of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, honoring scholar and practitioner Adam Curle.

A lecture on the moral imagination in peacebuilding delivered for the Annual Gottlieb Lecture at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2003.

A video interview with Robert Wright for The Wright Show, a production of meaningoflife.tv.

A summary of the book, The Moral Imagination, which draws forth and describes the essence of each chapter.