On Being

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Unheard Cuts

» Unedited Interview with John Paul Lederach (mp3, 107:59)

Selected Writing

» "The Challenge of Terror: A Traveling Essay"

Hear the Music

» On Being Playlist ¦ listen to full-length tracks of each song played in the program

About the Image

In Kanchanpur, Nepal, two facilitators take part in a community process to work on a conflict between Forest User Groups (young woman standing) and several groups of "encroachers" including a landless group and a Kamaiya (young man standing), or bonded laborers.
(photo: Chup Thapa)

Selected Poems and Writings by John Paul Lederach

Haiku of Peacebuilding

» "Advice from the Mediator's Fellowship" (mp3, 2:38)
» On Tajikistan (mp3, 0:52)
» "Rainbow's End?" (mp3, 0:50)
» "Sister Mary's Words" (mp3, 1:42)

Poems on Parkinson's and Compassion

» "Quivering"
» "Parkinson's Cycle"
» "Conversational Haiku"

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John Paul Lederach

Lederach is Professor of International Peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His books include The Moral Imagination and When Blood and Bones Cry Out.