John Paul Lederach Archive
Professor Emeritus of International Peacebuilding, John Paul Lederach, is a seminal figure in the fields of peacebuilding, conflict transformation, and reconciliation. His practice and scholarship across over four decades of vocational engagement are foundational to peacebuilding and conflict transformation efforts around the world.
John Paul’s archival website gathers and presents formal scholarship, unpublished reflections, initiatives, speeches, and creative expression from across his career into a centralized virtual
space. The archive is intended as a virtual space of rest, curiosity, and learning for anyone interested to explore the topics and practice that ground and constitute John Paul’s
contributions.
The archive has multiple sections: vocational reflections, galleries, podcasts, and dispatches. Vocational reflections is comprised of a compilation of John Paul’s published and unpublished writings, speeches, recorded conversations, interviews, and more. These span a range of topics and geographies, including themes that have featured prominently in the vocational journey, tools to support facilitation and reflection, and social change initiatives.
John Paul is an avid proponent of the need for creativity as the source of constant response and innovation while living with complexity and the challenges of peacebuilding. He has long
articulated that the arts sit at the center, not the periphery nor an add on to social change, social healing, renewal of personal resilience, and the craft of peace. The galleries section offer
expressions from John Paul's and colleagues’ explorations and experiments into aesthetic approaches to reflective practice and social change.
The podcasts section gathers together various conversations John Paul has had with friends old and new, including those in which he has been a guest as well as those he has moderated.
Lastly, the dispatches section contains news about recent publications, ponderings on salient topics and themes in peacebuilding and conflict transformation, the amplification of the work of colleagues and friends, and the featuring of past publications and conversations that hold relevance to the current moment. Like a seed bank, these dispatches are intended to gather and share insights, reflections, and materials that readers are invited to harvest, play with, and sow in their own realms of research and practice.
The creation of this archive was generously supported by Humanity United.