WEALTHY ELITE R SETTING AMERICA UP AGAIN WITH ANOTHER FUTURE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS USING SECRET CAMPAIGN $$ AND THEIR BUSH JR ~ KARL ROVE CABAL WILL SURELY BRING U.S. ANOTHER NEEDLESS WAR IN THE MIDDLE~EAST ...

FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH JR & KARL ROVE LIED 2 AMERICA & THE INTERNATIONAL WORLD WITH WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION & THIS KARL ROVE IS AGAIN RAISING $$ TO ELECT REPUBLICAN POLITICAL CANDIDATES THAT WE CAN TRUST IN THE FUTURE ???

NO FACE 2 FACE PEACE TALKS WITH IRAQ ALSO BROUGHT AMERICA A PHONY BUSH JR ~ KARL ROVE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION WAR PRESIDENT OBAMA ...
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BUSH JR~KARL ROVE CABAL BROUGHT U.S. WAR WITH IRAQ & A REPUBLICAN FUTURE CONGRESS WILL ALSO BRING AMERICA WAR WITH IRAN !!!

IRAN & AMERICA WILL BE AT WAR SOON AFTER A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS TAKES OVER STUPID ...

FORMER PRSIDENT BUSH JR & HIS SIDE~KICK KARL ROVE SENT IN THE CLOWNS 2 BRING WAR, BUT IRAN & AMERICA NOW NEED REAL PEACE PRESIDENT OBAMA ~

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A professor and writer finds ways for peacebuilding

Conflict negotiator and writer John Paul Lederach has spent decades seeking new paths to peacebuilding.

University of Notre Dame professor John Paul Lederach is widely known for his pioneering work in conflict resolution and peacebuilding.

Jim Z. Rider/
Special to the Christian Science Monitor

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By Josh Allen, Contributor / May 26, 2010

When John Paul Lederach was a student looking for a college that offered peace studies, he found only a handful of programs in the United States. That was more than 30 years ago.

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A California artist works to bring health care and education to nomads of Niger One farmer acts to save environment from factory farms Today, almost 100 US graduate schools and dozens of undergraduate colleges offer degrees or certificates in conflict resolution and peace studies. And Dr. Lederach's writings now are a frequent part of the study of peacemaking.

Some of Lederach's ideas draw on his views as a Mennonite Christian and an academic, first at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va., and since 2001 as professor of international peacebuilding at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

Yet much of his perspective is based on his experiences as a mediator and trainer of peace workers in more than 25 countries, places of conflict where Lederach has tried to help people resolve their differences without violence – despite decades of unrest, injustice, or war.

He has pursued his career – peace building – with unchanging inspiration. "[This work] is the only thing I've ever done," he says.

He works with people "who have taken extraordinary risks and have suffered the consequences of violent situations," he says. But they also have kept their hope that they can defeat "violence in a nonviolent way," he says.

Lederach's first peace-building experience came in Nicaragua in the 1980s, when he helped mediate between the Sandinista government and a local movement on the country's east coast.

Since then, he's worked both with villagers caught in local rebellions and high-level government officials.

In the 1990s he served as a consultant to churches and peace groups in the Philippines as the country struggled with communist and Islamic insurgency and indigenous violence. In 2003, the Carter Center, a nonprofit foundation founded by former President Jimmy Carter, invited him to Venezuela to speak to groups seeking to maintain peace in the wake of a coup attempt on the government of President Hugo Chávez.

When Lederach himself isn't on hand to resolve a conflict, his influential writings often are there to represent him, sometimes at historic moments.

In Kenya in Jan­uary 2008, George Wachira, a senior adviser of the Nairobi Peace Initiative – Africa, was working with former military leaders as violence raged in the wake of controversial national elections. Mr. Wachira had partnered with Lederach throughout Africa in the 1990s and early 2000s.

Wachira's group involved the news media in calls for peace and consulted with Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary-general, who finally brokered a power-sharing deal between President Mwai Kib­aki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

"John Paul's ideas are about providing space and connecting, recognizing opportunities, all guided by a broad, yet clear, picture of where you want things to go," Wachira says. "These elements were directly present in our work during the postelection crisis in Kenya."

In February, Lederach visited Colombia as part of an effort to help reintegrate former paramilitary groups, who had used violence to traumatize the population, back into society.

In Colombia, "Many ... people have lost family members or experienced massacres," Lederach says. The challenge is, "How do we tell the truth about this violence when some may want to move quickly past that?"

In March he traveled to Nepal to address conflicts in a country staggered by poverty and political instability after a 10-year civil war.

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