By John Paul Lederach
We are living in a various, yet interdependent international. in spite of smooth expertise, communications, and shuttle, we nonetheless have to construct relationships resulting in reconciliation. John Paul Lederach stocks insights received from years of labor in foreign mediation and deep religious mirrored image at the job of reconciliation. From own reviews and the Bible tale, he reveals God looking reconciliation all through background. this is support for conflicted households, groups, and countries. 208 Pages.
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That total "peace process," as we termed it, was larger than intergovernmental negotiation. Second, peacemaking is a process, a way of living and working. Peace is never made; it is always in the making. I see the peace process as an open-ended, multilevel political process of continuous interaction between whole groups and whole bodies politic. This means interaction across permeable borders to change relationships. " The point is that the medium for transforming hostile relationships is an evolving complex of simultaneous interactions among people at many levels of society.
Unspoken words rolled across my tongue, leaving again the raw taste of righteous disdain. " The image danced on my mind's stage. This fragment comes from a poem I have been writing about my experience with the colonel. I say I "have been writing" because I never get it quite right. I have tried to tell the story of the colonel only one time in a public meeting. I broke down into such tears that I could barely finish. I do not have a logical explanation for the emotion. When I tell stories of my experiences with reconciliation, I easily become emotional, even when I've told the story many times.
The church needs it. " Robert A. Seiple, Former President of World Vision "John Paul Lederach, experienced conciliation practitioner and teacher, reflects on the spiritual basis for peacemaking. He weaves together knowledge about conflict with biblical stories and passages, making this book helpful reading for all. "Lederach thoughtfully and carefully listens to scriptural passages and what they have to teach us about being peacemakers and handling conflict. His fresh reading of familiar passages sheds new light on reconciliation as the center and goal of our life as Christians and the church.