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A toolkit intended to improve peacebuilders’ ability to be reflective practitioners which involves enhancing peacebuilders’ capacity to design and impact transformative change, and track and improve upon those changes over time in unpredictable conflict contexts.

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

John Paul's contributions to the Upaya Zen Center's Varela Symposium 2018, which explored the theme, "Transforming Conflict: From Science to Real World Applications."

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."

An article exploring challenges of inclusivity in peace processes and proposing a shift in metaphor to enhance inclusivity.

The foreword to a journal issue on music and peace education, this article considers the centrality of sound, vibration, and music to social change and response to deep conflict.

The foreword to the first volume of Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict, which describes peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts.

A chapter weaving reflections emergent from the apprenticeship program that includes narratives from each of the four apprentices.

A chapter exploring the meaning of quality of presence rising from spiritual resources that facilitate the practice of religious peacebuilding in protracted conflict.