John Paul Lederach — The Art of Peace

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On Being : John Paul Lederach — The Art of Peace Image

John Paul Lederach — The Art of Peace

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What happens when people transcend violence while living in it? John Paul Lederach has spent three decades mediating peace and change in 25 countries — from Nepal to Colombia and Sierra Leone. He shifts the language and lens of the very notion of conflict resolution. He says, for example, that enduring progress takes root not with large numbers of people, but with relationships between unlikely people.