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. The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame) (ˌnoʊtɚˈdeɪm is a private Roman Catholic Research university located in South Bend is a city on the St Joseph river and a twin city of Mishawaka Indiana. Eastern Mennonite University is a private Christian Liberal arts college in Harrisonburg, Virginia affiliated with Mennonite Church USA He has written widely on conflict resolution and mediation. The term "conflict resolution" refers to a range of processes aimed at alleviating or eliminating sources of conflict Mediation, a form of Alternative dispute resolution (ADR or "appropriate Dispute resolution " aims to assist two (or more disputants in reaching He holds a Ph. D. in sociology from the University of Colorado and has been at the Eastern Mennonite University since 1990. Eastern Mennonite University is a private Christian Liberal arts college in Harrisonburg, Virginia affiliated with Mennonite Church USA
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 transformation. Political science is a branch of Social sciences that deals with the theory and practice of Politics and the description and analysis of Political systems Peace and conflict studies is an " Academic field which identifies and analyzes the violent and nonviolent behaviors as well as the structural mechanisms Conflict transformation is the process by which Conflicts such as Ethnic conflict, are transformed into peaceful outcomes 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, peacebuilding practitioner, trainer and consultant. For Wikipedia's negotiation policy see WikipediaNegotiation. For other uses see Negotiation (disambiguation. At international level, this has involved input into peace processes in, for example, Somalia, Northern Ireland, Nicaragua and Colombia. Somalia ( Soomaaliya; الصومال) officially the Somali Republic ( Jamhuuriyadda Soomaaliya, جمهورية الصومال) and formerly known Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann Ulster Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a Country within the United Kingdom, lying in the northeast of Nicaragua (ˌnɪkəˈrɑgwə officially the Republic of Nicaragua () is a representative democratic republic and the largest nation in Central America Colombia (kəˈlʌmbɪə officially the Republic of Colombia () is a country in northwestern South America. 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. The Mennonites are a group of Christian Anabaptist denominations named after Menno Simons (1496&ndash1561 though his teachings were a relatively A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth In 2000, he received the Community of Christ International Peace Award. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The Community of Christ International Peace Award was established to honor and bring attention to the work of Peacemaking and peacemakers in the world
Publications
- Preparing for Peace: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures, Syracuse University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-8156-2725-4
- Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies, U.S. Institute of Peace, 1997, ISBN 1-878379-73-9
- The Journey Toward Reconciliation, Pennsylvania: Herald Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8361-9082-3
- A Handbook of International Peacebuilding: Into The Eye Of The Storm, Jossey-Bass, 2002, ISBN 0-7879-5879-4
- The Little Book of Conflict Transformation, Good Books, 2003, ISBN 1-56148-390-7
- The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace, Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-517454-2
External links
- http://www.emu.edu/humanresources/personnel/bios/lederacj.html
- http://ecapc.org/articles/LederaJ_ChallengeTerror.asp
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