John Paul Lederach

John Paul Lederach "is the founding director of EMU’s Conflict Transformation Program and its associated Institute for Justice and Peacebuilding. Dr. Lederach has extensive experience as a peacebuilding practitioner, trainer and consultant throughout Latin America, Africa and the U.S.

"He has pioneered in developing elicitive methods of conflict resolution training and practice, and is a widely published theorist in both English and Spanish. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado and has been at EMU since 1990."


 * Director, International Institute for Sustained Dialogue
 * Editorial Board, Journal of Peace and Conflict Studies

Publications

 * Into The Eye Of The Storm: A Handbook of International Peacebuilding (co-authored with Janice Jenner)
 * Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies (United States Institute of Peace Press, 1998).
 * From the Ground Up : Mennonite Contributions to International Peacebuilding (co-author Cynthia Sampson) (Oxford University Press, 2000).
 * Journey Toward Reconciliation
 * Preparing for Peace: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures (Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution)
 * The Little Book of Conflict Transformation
 * The Moral Imagination : The Art and Soul of Building Peace (Oxford University Press, 2005).

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 * Gerald W. Schlabach
 * He is a former scholar at the Joan Kroc Institute