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JOHN PAUL LEDERACH
Dr. John Paul Lederach is Professor of International Peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana and concurrently Distinguished Scholar at Eastern Mennonite University. He has written widely on conflict resolution and mediation. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado and has been at the Eastern Mennonite University since 1990.
Dr. Lederach's theories of elicitive methods of conflict resolution have been influential in the fields of Political Science, Peace Studies, International Relations and Conflict Resolution. His works have been published widely in English and Spanish.
His academic work comes laden with examples from his experience in the field as a mediator, negotiator, peacebuiling practitioner, trainer and consultant. At international level, this has involved input into peace processes in, for example, Somalia, Northern Ireland, Nicaragua and Colombia. Within communities, his work has often been at the level of reconciliation within church and family.
Dr. Lederach is a committed Mennonite Christian, and as he explains in his 1999 book The Journey Toward Reconciliation (see below) his Christian faith has impacted both his thinking and application of non-violent solutions to conflict.
Publications
- Preparing for Peace: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures, Syracuse University Press, 1995, ISBN 0815627254
- Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies, U.S. Institute of Peace, 1997, ISBN 1878379739
- The Journey Toward Reconciliation, Pennsylvania: Herald Press, 1999, ISBN 0836190823
- A Handbook of International Peacebuilding: Into The Eye Of The Storm, Jossey-Bass, 2002, ISBN 0787958794
- The Little Book of Conflict Transformation, Good Books, 2003, ISBN 1561483907
- The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace, Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0195174542
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